Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital and biggest metropolis of the German federal country of Brandenburg. It at once borders the German capital, Berlin, and is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is located at the River Havel 24 kilometres southwest of Berlin's city centre. Potsdam became a residence of the Prussian kings and the German Kaiser until 1918. Its planning embodied ideas of the Age of Enlightenment: through a careful balance of structure and landscape, Potsdam changed into meant as "a picturesque, pastoral dream" which could remind its residents of their relationship with nature and motive.

Around the town there are a sequence of interconnected lakes and cultural landmarks, specially the parks and palaces of Sanssouci, the biggest World Heritage Site in Germany. The Potsdam Conference in 1945 changed into held at the palace Cecilienhof. Babelsberg, in the south-japanese part of Potsdam, was a prime movie manufacturing studio before the Nineteen Thirties and has enjoyed achievement as a prime center of European movie production for the reason that fall of the Berlin Wall. The Filmstudio Babelsberg is the oldest large-scale movie studio inside the international.