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Sanssouci Park

Sanssouci Park covers about 300 hectares in the west of Potsdam, extends more than two kilometres from east to west and holds more than a thousand sculptures. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990. Frederick the Great began laying it out in the 1740s around his summer palace, with a system of terraces devoted to growing vines and a great fountain in the centre. A century later Frederick William IV added neoclassical buildings such as Charlottenhof, the Roman Baths, the Friedenskirche and the Orangery, and Peter Joseph Lenné turned part of the formal garden into English-style landscape. The Great Fountain reached 38 metres in 1842 thanks to a Borsig steam engine. The Neues Palais closes the park to the west. Some buildings, such as the Roman Baths, are under restoration and can only be seen from outside. There are about 70 km of paths.

Things to do at Sanssouci Park: 4 missions

• Walk the avenue to the Neues PalaisWalk along the main avenue that crosses the park from the obelisk at the entrance to the Neues Palais, a little over two kilometres, and view the palace from outside when you arrive.
• See the vineyard terraces from the Great FountainStand next to the Great Fountain and look up the hill: the terraces designed for vines, with Sanssouci Palace at the top.
• Find the apse mosaic of the FriedenskircheGo into the Church of Peace and look at the apse: its original 13th-century mosaic comes from the church of San Cipriano in Murano, near Venice.
• Find the golden musicians of the Chinese HouseWalk around the pavilion and find the life-size golden figures drinking tea and playing music, and the palm-shaped columns.

Near Sanssouci Park

Source: Web oficial - Fundación de Palacios y Jardines Prusianos (SPSG)