Glienicke Bridge

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  View of the Glienicke Bridge, which connects Berlin and Potsdam.

• An excursion boat sails towards Glienicke Bridge. (Aerial view from airplane)

The Glienicke Bridge was a legendary site during the Cold War. The USA and the Soviet Union exchanged spies here.

The most charming landscape in the already very green Berlin lies in the far southwest of the city - where Berlin and the Brandenburg capital Potsdam meet. This is where the Glienicke Bridge is located.

Glienicke Bridge became known as Bridge of Spies

It connects Berlin and Potsdam and was a legendary site during the Cold War. The USA and the Soviet Union exchanged spies across the bridge and became known as the Bridge of Spies. Today, the Glienicke Bridge is an unspectacular connection to Potsdam, but offers a beautiful view over the enchanting Havel landscape.

Mediterranean flair: Glienicke Palace

The picturesque quality was already recognized by the Prussian rulers, who cultivated the banks of the Havel into a park around Glienicke Palace. Just before the bridge, the first horticultural work by Peter Joseph Lenné (1816) can be admired on Königstraße. Prince Carl of Prussia had Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Ludwig Persius and Ferdinand von Arnim artistically remodel the existing buildings in 1824-60 and give them a Mediterranean feel. The lion fountain in front of the palace, modeled on the Villa Medici in Rome, is well worth seeing.

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