Schloß Sanssouci. Pleasure palace of Prussian King Friedrich II (Frederick the Great), constructed between 1745 and 1747. It sits in the 700-acre Parc Sanssouci - on the western side of Potsdam, and also begun by Friedrich - and was the first of several palaces and royal residences constructed around the park in the 18th and 19th centuries. Friedrich generally resided there from April to October each year.
Orangerieschloß. Constructed between 1851 and 1860 by Prussian King Wilhelm IV, as a guest house at Parc Sanssouci - primarily for his sister and her husband, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.
Neues Palais. Constructed between 1763 and 1769 by Friedrich II as a formal guest palace.
Friedenskirche. Constructed between 1845 and 1848 by Wilhelm IV, and based on Rome's San Clemente Church. The mosaic on the apse dome (lower photo) is 12th-century, and it originally was in the church of San Capriano on Murano Island in Venice.
18th-century mill (reconstruction, 1993).
Holländisches Viertel (Dutch Quarter). Constructed between 1733 and 1742 by Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I as a settlement for Dutch artisans invited by the King to work in Potsdam.
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