• Old Market Square - We have a short stop at the Old Market Square, the historical city center. Once destroyed in World War II it is currently under reconstruction. Learn more about the controversial debates about the urban development in Potsdam.
• Bassinplatz - Potsdam’s largest city square between the Dutch Quarter and French Quarter with Peter and Paul church and the Soviet War cemetery.
• Hollandisches Viertel - We pass by one of the largest Dutch ensembles outside the Netherlands.
• Schloss Cecilienhof - Historical site of the Potsdam Conference from summer 1945. We’ll stroll around the garden of the last royal palace of the Hohenzollern family. Here, US president Truman, British prime minister Churchill (later Atlee) and Soviet leader Stalin decided about the post-war order in 1945.
• Gedenk- und Begegnungsstatte Leistikowstrasse - We have a brief stop in the once “forbidden city” of Potsdam. It was a Soviet KGB district with a remand prison.
• Kunsthaus Rechenzentrum Potsdam - The Rechenzentrum once was a huge data center built in the style of Socialist modernism. The front is decorated with a huge 70 meter Socialist mosaic depicting scenes of the Cold War space race.

• Carbonated beverages included

Holger, your guide and driver, is a native of Potsdam. He provides a genuine understanding of Potsdam’s history. Once a residential city of Prussia, Potsdam became a significant hub during the Cold War. The Potsdam Conference of 1945 laid the foundation for the Cold War. Potsdam was one of the crucial Soviet stations in the GDR. The bridge of spies, linking Potsdam and West Berlin, was a representation of Germany’s division.

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