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Live tours in Potsdam

Explore Potsdam, Germany, live with a local who lives there. A guide walks you past Sanssouci Palace, Sanssouci Park and Neues Palais on a video call, or talks you through it by phone.

11 live tours From 17,00 €

Explore Potsdam live with a local

Sessions run live, not as a recording: you join at a time in your own time zone, and the guide follows whatever you want to see or ask about. Holländisches Viertel is worth asking about: red-brick gabled houses from the 1730s, now full of cafes and small workshops.

Every date has a minimum group size: if it does not fill up, it is cancelled and you are refunded in full automatically. Small groups, real answers, no script.

What a live session shows

  • Sanssouci Palace Frederick the Great's rococo summer palace, its facade lined with statues along the vineyard terraces.
  • Sanssouci Park A large landscaped park linking several royal buildings, laid out over the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • Neues Palais A large Baroque palace built at the park's western end after the Seven Years' War, still used for state functions.
  • Cecilienhof Palace An English Tudor-style palace where the 1945 Potsdam Conference was held.
  • Holländisches Viertel (Dutch Quarter) A neighbourhood of red-brick gabled houses built in the 1730s for Dutch craftsmen invited to the town.
  • Brandenburger Tor Potsdam A triumphal gate built in 1770, predating its larger namesake in Berlin.
  • Glienicke Bridge The Cold War crossing nicknamed the Bridge of Spies, used for prisoner exchanges between East and West.
  • Babelsberg Park A landscaped park on the Havel around a Gothic-revival palace, laid out by the royal gardener Lenné.

Neighbourhoods

  • Holländisches Viertel red-brick gabled houses from the 1730s, now full of cafes and small workshops
  • Babelsberg the film studio district on the Havel, mixing villas, production lots and lakeside paths
  • Brandenburger Straße the pedestrian high street linking the Dutch Quarter to the Nikolaikirche and the Alter Markt

Food to know

  • Havelländische Zander (pike-perch from local lakes)
  • Kartoffelsuppe (potato soup)
  • Bornstedt brewery beer
  • Königsberger Klopse (meatballs in caper sauce)
  • Brandenburger Landbrot (rustic rye bread)

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Good to know about Potsdam

Do I need to be in Potsdam to join a session?

No. You join from wherever you are; the guide is the one in Potsdam, live on camera or on the phone.

How long does a session last?

Between 0.5 and 1.5 hours, depending on the guide and the topic.

What language is the session in?

Guides here offer German, English, Russian and French; pick the one you want when you book.

What if I lose connection partway through?

Rejoin with the same link within a few minutes and the guide will catch you up.

Can I ask the guide anything, or is it a fixed script?

Anything. Sessions leave room for your own questions throughout, not just at the end.