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.
Inclusions & Exclusions
✔  Professional guide
✔  Bikes, insurances, taxes
✔  Rail transportation to and from Potsdam
✖  Gratuities
✖  Food and drinks, unless specified
✖  Hotel pickup and drop off
Departure & Return
Departure:  ,

Tour meets at the Fat Tire Tours Office at the base of the giant TV Tower (Fernsehturm) in Berlin's Alexanderplatz. When exiting the Alexanderplatz train station, head towards the entrance of the TV Tower and you will find our meeting point marked with flags

Return: End right where it started.
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Itinerary
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Fat Tire Tours Berlin 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.
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Sanssouci Palace See the magnificent Sansssouci Palace from the outside and talk about the early life of Frederick the Great. Great photo spot.

Duration:  15 minutes

3
Orangerie im Park Sanssouci Explore the windmill and gardens.

Duration:  15 minutes

4
Potsdam Paradise Garden Ride through the gardens and parks of Potsdam

Duration:  10 minutes

5
Schloss Cecilienhof 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

6
Brandenburg Gate See Potsdam´s Brandeburg Gate and discuss Potsdam as garrison town and the beginnings of Prussia’s mighty army

Duration:  10 minutes

7
Glienicke Bridge 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

8
Marmorpalais 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
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A beautiful part of the Sanssouci Gardens
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Rebuilt in honor of mill that used to stand here.
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Old Market Square 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

12
Stop for photos and explanation of this historical center of Potsdam

Duration:  10 minutes

13
Initially adorned with faces of Prussian electors and early Hohenzollern Kings

Duration:  5 minutes

14
Altes Rathaus Old Town Hall of Potsdam

Duration:  5 minutes

15
Museum Barberini Modelled after Palazzo Barbarini in Rome, now houses the part of the private collection of Hasso Plattner
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Chinesisches Haus (Chinese House) Chinese Teahouse. See this intriguing garden pavilion in Sanssouci Park, buillt by Frederick the Great. Photo stop and historical explanation

Duration:  5 minutes

17
Neues Palais Neues Palais (New Palace) built to commemorate Frederick the Great’s victory in the Seven Years War

Duration:  10 minutes

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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

19
Stop of lunch in this iconic German restaurant

Duration:  45 minutes

20
Nauen Gate Ride by Jägertor (Hunters’ Gate) and Nauener Tor (Nauen Gate, built 1755).
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Named after Queen Louise (Queen Consort of Frederick-Wilhelm III), most popular and best-known queen of Prussia.

Duration:  10 minutes

22
Old Market Square Ride through the old town of Potsdam, stop for lunch

Duration:  45 minutes

23
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

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Alexandrowka Hear about the Russian colony in Potsdam, originally built on the orders of Frederick-Wilhelm in the 1820s
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Heiliger See Holy Lake. Cycle along Potsdam's Heiliger See, and perhaps see the local FKK scene
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Cycle along Potsdam's Jungfernsee/ Virgin Lake
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Cycle along the Havel River
28
Potsdamer Platz Ride along the Berlin Wall (in Potsdam) and see site of former No Man's Land/ Death Strip
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Grosse Orangerie Schloss Charlottenburg 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

Additional info
•  Public transportation options are available nearby
•  Specialized infant seats are available
•  Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
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Ticket:
Mobile or paper ticket accepted
duration:
6.5 hours
Guide in:
English   
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