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Other Potsdam Sights
East of Park Sanssouci, Potsdam's
Altstadt
makes for a pleasant stroll and also gives way to
the
Holländisches Viertel
(Dutch Quarter), a picturesque cluster of 134 gabled red-brick
houses built around 1730 for Dutch workers invited to Potsdam by Friedrich Wilhelm I. The
entire district has been done up beautifully and brims with galleries, cafes and restaurants;
Mittelstrasse is especially scenic.
North of the Altstadt, the key sight of the winding lakeside Neuer Garten (New Garden)
tours adult/concession €6/5; 10am-6pm Tue-Sun Apr-Oct, to 5pm Nov-Mar; 603)
, an English-
style country palace famous for hosting the 1945 Potsdam Conference where Stalin, Truman
and Churchill hammered out Germany's postwar fate. The conference room, with its giant
round table, looks as though the delegates just left.
