One of the days we were in Berlin, we took a regional train down to Potsdam to visit Sanssouci Park. We got lost a little, it was raining, but it was totally worth it to see the gorgeous park and schloss mecca.
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| Chinese Pavilion - if you want to know what chinoiserie is; then you should check out this folly. |
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| Pretty flower garden in the park. |
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| Schloss Sanssouci - Rococo, anyone? |
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| The Tent Room in Schloss Charlottenhof designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel - this room is the main reason I came to visit. It's a gorgeous little interior that was designed with the 19th century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in mind. Humboldt would visit Charlottenhof frequently; this would be the guest room he would stay in, and Schinkel wanted to remind him of being out in nature in a tent on a collecting expedition. I just love when interiors are this thoughtful and whimsical. |
If you like art history (especially design history) and you're in Berlin, you must go down to Potsdam.
We had a wonderful trip in Berlin, and I'm so happy the wall fell 25 years ago, making Berlin the hip, diverse, bike-loving place it is today.
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