Sanssouci Palace — Attraction in Potsdam

Sanssouci Palace: Sanssouci is a wonderful historic palace built (between 1745 and 1747 )by Prussian King Frederick the Great as his summer palace. This amazing place located just outside the idyllic town of Potsdam. We were able to stroll around the beautiful stylized gardens and view the grand houses, gate lodges and various water features is a pleasure and that made the visit eventful. Here you can find a beautiful palace with yellows walls and emerald roof. The palace is surrounded by a huge beautiful park with fountains and statues. The panoramic vista of the garden of Sanssouci is the result of Frederick the Great's decision to create a terraced vineyard on the south slope of the hills of Bornstedt. The area had previously been wooded but the trees were felled during the reign of the "soldier-king" Frederick William I to allow the city of Potsdam to expand. Below the hill, a Baroque ornamental garden, modelled on the parterre at Versailles, was constructed in 1745. Following the terracing of the vineyard and the completion of the palace, Frederick turned his attention to the landscaping of the greater vicinity of the palace and thus began the creation of Sanssouci Park. Sanssouci Park is a large park surrounding Sanssouci Palace. A Baroque flower garden with lawns, flower beds, hedges and trees was created. In the hedge quarter 3,000 fruit trees were planted. The greenhouses of the numerous nurseries contained oranges, melons, peaches and bananas. The goddesses Flora and Pomona, who decorate the entrance obelisk at the eastern park exit, were placed there to highlight the connection of a flower, fruit and vegetable garden. Along with the Sanssouci Palace, Sanssouci Park was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1990 for its unique architectural unity and testimony to 18th and 19th century landscaping in Europe. This place is really amazing. I've been there during the week and it's really quiet and pleasant. The surrounding parks are big enough to spend the whole day there. Schloss Sanssouci is easily accessible by a public transport from Berlin to there. Its worth to spend one day there for sightseeing with fresh...

Sanssouci is little more than a large, single-story villa—more like the Château de Marly than Versailles. Containing just ten principal rooms, it was built on the brow of a terraced hill at the centre of the park. The influence of King Frederick's personal taste in the design and decoration of the palace was so great that its style is characterised as "Frederician Rococo", and his feelings for the palace were so strong that he conceived it as "a place that would die with him". Because of a disagreement about the site of the palace in the park, Knobelsdorff was fired in 1746. Jan Bouman, a Dutch architect, finished the project. Sanssouci Palace and its reflection in the pond at Sanssouci Park During the 19th century, the palace became a residence of Frederick William IV. He employed the architect Ludwig Persius to restore and enlarge the palace, while Ferdinand von Arnim was charged with improving the grounds and thus the view from the palace. The town of Potsdam, with its palaces, was a favourite place of residence for the German imperial family until the fall of the Hohenzollern dynasty in 1918. Frederick the Great (1712–86). After World War II, the palace became a tourist attraction in East Germany. Following German reunification in 1990, Frederick's body was returned to the palace and buried in a new tomb overlooking the gardens he had created. Sanssouci and its extensive gardens became a World Heritage Site in 1990 under the protection of UNESCO; in 1995, the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg was established to care for Sanssouci and the other former imperial palaces in and around Berlin. These palaces are now visited by more than two million people a year from all...

This place can be called a must have for any tourist who visited as Potsdam in general, as this park especially. Beautiful architecture of the palace itself. It is very large and stands on a hill with a huge garden near it that looks like giant stairs. In the center of the garden is a large fountain. Although in itself it is not very beautiful, but it is surrounded by beautiful sculptures and benches for relaxation. You can either walk along the tiers of this beautiful green garden and sit by the fountain, or go up to the palace and sit in one of two beautiful arbors at its edges. One symbolizes the Sun, the other - the Moon (metal Sun and the Moon hang on them). And you can go to the museum's shop that is on the other side of the palace, near the entrance. And, in fact, you can visit the museum itself inside the palace. Everyone can take an audio guide in several languages. In the group where I was, there were definitely audio guides in Russian and English, for example. This museum is big. Should you visit this museum? ... Perhaps yes, I can recommend this place to anyone who at least loves art and who is at least a little interested in history, as this place has many interesting exhibits about which the audio guide tells some...