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Take a day-trip from Berlin and discover UNESCO World Heritage listed Potsdam, all by the seat of your bike! From park lands to alleyways, you’re English-speaking guide will recount historical anecdotes as you explore an array of Prussian and Cold War sites.
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Duration: 6 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Berlin, Germany
Trip Category: Walking & Biking Tours >> Bike & Mountain Bike Tours
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Take a day-trip from Berlin and discover UNESCO World Heritage listed Potsdam, all by the seat of your bike! From park lands to alleyways, you’re English-speaking guide will recount historical anecdotes as you explore an array of Prussian and Cold War sites.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Fat Tire Tours Berlin, Panoramastr. 1a, 10178 Berlin Germany
You’ll travel to Potsdam by train with bike’s in-tow before embarking on a leisurely ride covering approximately 10 miles (16km) over 4.5 hours. After all that exertion, break for lunch (not included) at a great beer garden that used to be the old royal dairy.
Stop At: Sanssouci Palace, Maulbeerallee, 14469 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
See the magnificent Sansssouci Palace from the outside and talk about the early life of Frederick the Great. Great photo spot.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Orangerie im Park Sanssouci, Maulbeerallee, 14469 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
Explore the windmill and gardens.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Potsdam’s Gardens, Schopenhauerstrasse, 14467 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
Ride through the gardens and parks of Potsdam
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Schloss Cecilienhof, Im Neuen Garten 11, 14469 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
View the fantastic Marble Palace from the outside where Truman, Stalin and Churchill concluded the Potsdam Agreement. (Entry included) site of the Post-WWII conference
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin Germany
See Potsdam´s Brandeburg Gate and discuss Potsdam as garrison town and the beginnings of Prussia’s mighty army
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Glienicke Bridge, Konigstrasse, 14467 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
Listen to an explanation about the historic “Bridge of Spies”, infamous site of 1962 spy exchanges (well-known for Rudolf Abel and Gary Powers) during the Cold War
Duration: 10 minutes
Pass By: Marmorpalais, Im Neuen Garten 10, 14469 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
See the Marble Palace of Frederich-Wilhelm II. The Marmorpalais is a former royal residence in Potsdam, near Berlin in Germany, built on the grounds of the extensive Neuer Garten on the shores of the Heiliger See
Pass By: Weinbergterrassen, Im Park Sanssouci, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
A beautiful part of the Sanssouci Gardens
Pass By: Historic Mill of Sanssouci, Maulbeerallee 5, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
Rebuilt in honor of mill that used to stand here.
Stop At: Old Market Square, 14467 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
Alter Markt. Discuss Prussia and its royal family in this centrally located square in downtown Potsdam, including the area around St. Nicholas’ Church, which forms the historical center of the city
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: St. Nicholas’ Church, Potsdam, Am Alten Markt, 14467 Potsdam, Germany
Stop for photos and explanation of this historical center of Potsdam
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Obelisk, Am Alten Markt, 14467 Potsdam, Germany
Initially adorned with faces of Prussian electors and early Hohenzollern Kings
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Altes Rathaus, Am Alten Markt 9, 14467 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
Old Town Hall of Potsdam
Duration: 5 minutes
Pass By: Museum Barberini, Humboldtstrasse 5-6, 14467 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
Modelled after Palazzo Barbarini in Rome, now houses the part of the private collection of Hasso Plattner
Stop At: Chinesisches Haus (Chinese House), Am Grunen Gitter, 14469 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
Chinese Teahouse. See this intriguing garden pavilion in Sanssouci Park, buillt by Frederick the Great. Photo stop and historical explanation
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Neues Palais, Am Neuen Palais, 14469 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
Neues Palais (New Palace) built to commemorate Frederick the Great’s victory in the Seven Years War
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Orangery Palace, An d. Orangerie 3-5, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
Built by Frederick-Wilhelm IV (Romantic on the Throne). Called the Orangerie because inside there is a greenhouse where he could grow exotic fruits like oranges and lemons.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Augustiner Potsdam, Mittelstraße 18, 14467 Potsdam, Germany
Stop of lunch in this iconic German restaurant
Duration: 45 minutes
Pass By: Nauen Gate, Nauner Srasse, Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
Ride by Jägertor (Hunters’ Gate) and Nauener Tor (Nauen Gate, built 1755).
Stop At: Luisenplatz, Luisenpl., Potsdam, Germany
Named after Queen Louise (Queen Consort of Frederick-Wilhelm III), most popular and best-known queen of Prussia.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Old Market Square, 14467 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
Ride through the old town of Potsdam, stop for lunch
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Dutch Quarter, 14467 Potsdam, Germany
Enjoy a ride and lunch break in the historic Dutch quarter (still in its original state, not destroyed in the war). This section of Potsdam dates to Frederick-Wilhelm I (Soldier King) who had 134 ‘Dutch’ houses built to help lure Dutch craftsmen (also stone workers and linen weavers) so the new immigrants will feel at home.
Duration: 45 minutes
Pass By: Alexandrowka 2, Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
Hear about the Russian colony in Potsdam, originally built on the orders of Frederick-Wilhelm in the 1820s
Pass By: Heiliger See, Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
Holy Lake. Cycle along Potsdam’s Heiliger See, and perhaps see the local FKK scene
Pass By: Am Jungfernsee, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
Cycle along Potsdam’s Jungfernsee/ Virgin Lake
Pass By: Havel, Germany
Cycle along the Havel River
Pass By: Potsdamer Platz Tiegarten, 10785 Berlin Germany
Ride along the Berlin Wall (in Potsdam) and see site of former No Man’s Land/ Death Strip
Stop At: Grosse Orangerie Schloss Charlottenburg, Spandauer Damm 22 Schlosspark Charlottenburg, 14059 Berlin Germany
Built by Frederick-Wilhelm IV (Romantic on the Throne). Called the Orangerie because inside there is a greenhouse where he could grow exotic fruits like oranges and lemons.
Duration: 5 minutes
