Adult
The Potsdam Private Walking Tour by Car is designed for travellers who want the best of both worlds: comfortable private transport from Berlin and an in-depth walking exploration of Potsdam’s historic centre. With this tour you enjoy hotel pickup, a relaxing drive and then a guided walk through palaces, gardens and picturesque streets.
Rather than rushing through the city on a bus, the Potsdam Private Walking Tour by Car allows you to feel the atmosphere of Potsdam at a natural pace. You can stop for photos, ask questions and discover hidden corners that large tour groups often miss.
A Potsdam Private Walking Tour by Car is ideal if you enjoy walking but prefer not to walk long distances between Berlin and Potsdam or between far-apart palaces. Your private car handles all transfers while your guide leads you on foot through the most interesting districts.
This tour suits:
Couples and small groups who like personal experiences
Families and senior travellers who need flexible walking distances
Visitors interested in history, architecture and culture
Because it is private, the Potsdam Private Walking Tour by Car can be adjusted for your speed and interests.
After hotel pickup in Berlin, you travel by comfortable private car to Potsdam. From there, your guided walking tour usually includes:
Sanssouci Park and Palace exteriors – Learn how Frederick the Great used this beautiful summer palace and walk through parts of the garden.
Historic Old Town – Charming streets, churches and squares create a relaxed small-town feeling.
Dutch Quarter – This unique red-brick neighbourhood is a highlight of any Potsdam Private Walking Tour by Car and offers great photo opportunities.
Brandenburg Gate of Potsdam – Not to be confused with Berlin’s gate, this triumphal arch marks an important historic entrance to the city.
Because your car is nearby, you can quickly reach different parts of the city without long transfers on foot.
Your guide can adjust the Potsdam Private Walking Tour by Car based on your preferences. If you love gardens, more time can be spent in the parks. If you prefer city life, the focus can move to cafés, local shops and historic buildings.
You can also choose to include breaks for coffee, local snacks or shopping. The tour remains relaxed because only your group is on it—no waiting for strangers, no fixed timetable.
If you are planning a longer stay in Berlin, you can easily combine the Potsdam Private Walking Tour by Car with other experiences, such as:
Internal link: Berlin Walking Tours
Internal link: Berlin City Tours
For more detailed information about Potsdam as a destination, you can also check:
External link :Official Potsdam Tourism
6 Hours
German , English
More than 30 palaces and gardens in Berlin and Brandenburg invite visitors to go on lively time travels back into the brilliant era of the Prussian kings and queens. Testimonies to the accomplished architecture and landscape gardening in Prussia, they have largely belonged to the UNESCO World Heritage since 1991. Their paradisiacal beauty is in keeping with their sobriquet “Prussian Arcadia.” Among these are the world renowned Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam and Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin.
The pleasure palace of Frederick the Great features beautiful Rococo-style architecture and a magnificent palace garden. On April 14, 1745, the foundation stone was laid for today's world famous Sanssouci Palace. Sanssouci is an masterpiece ensemble of architecture, sculptures and garden art.
A colossal palace building, its high tambour dome recognizable from afar, rises up at the western end of the Hauptallee (the main promenade) in Sanssouci Park: the Neues Palais (New Palace). In strong contrast to the intimate and rather modest Sanssouci Palace the large palace complex served official, representational needs. Grand banquet halls, splendid galleries and regally designed suites, not to mention Sanssouci’s Baroque palace theater in the southern wing, await visitors in its interior. Select works of 18th century art and decorative arts can be viewed at the palace in their original contexts. The New Palace is the last royal residence Frederick the Great would have built in his park. It was a demonstration of the Prussian state’s undiminished power and wealth following the deprivations of the Seven Years’ War (1756–63).
The Dutch Quarter, colloquially also known as the Dutch Quarter, is a district in the center of Potsdam that was built between 1733 and 1742 as part of the second city expansion under the direction of the Dutch master builder Jan Bouman from Amsterdam.[1] The quarter consists of 134 brick houses, which are divided into four squares by Mittelstrasse and Benkertstrasse. Under Friedrich Wilhelm I, known as the "soldier king", the district was planned and the two western squares were built. After his death in 1740, his son and successor Frederick II had the quarter with the two eastern squares completed largely according to his father's plans.
Cecilienhof Country House, built from 1913–17 according to plans by Paul Schultze in the style of a country manor, was the last palace erected by the Hohenzollerns. From July 17 to August 2, 1945, the summit meeting of World War II’s victorious powers took place here, attended by the “Big Three” – the American president Harry S. Truman, the British prime minister Winston Churchill (followed by his successor Clement Attlee), and the Soviet head of state Joseph Stalin. The Potsdam Conference was one the most important historical events of the 20th century. It is seen around the world as a symbol of the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, which led to the division of Europe and the erection of the Berlin Wall. The Potsdam Agreement adopted at Cecilienhof laid the groundwork for a new order in Germany, Europe, and the world after World War II.
From € 300.00
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