Potsdam: Germany

Potsdam: Germany
Potsdam ['potsdam] is a city in eastern Germany of around 150,000 people, and the capital of the state of Brandenburg. It is situated on the Havel river, 26km south-west of Berlin, accessible by S-Bahn (Metro). It also has a series of interconnected lakes.
Sights in Potsdam
Sanssouci Palace and glasshouses
Sanssouci Palace, former palace of the Prussian royal and German imperial families
Orangery Palace, former palace for foreign royal guests

Neues Palais (”New Palace”), an additional palace in Sanssouci Park, built in 1769
Charlottenhof, another palace in Sanssouci Park, by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1826)
New Garden with two smaller palaces, one of them Cecilienhof, where the Potsdam Conference was held
Old Town with the Brandenburg Gate (1770, not to be confused with the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin), St. Nikolai church (1850) and town hall (1753)
Babelsberg, a quarter east of the centre, housing the UFA film studios
Einstein Tower, Erich Mendelsohn architect, 1920-24
Alexandrovka, a small enclave of Russian architecture due to 17th-century Russian immigrants