what secrets lie behind things will. discover new adventures in the 360 degree. turn to explore this amazing world heritage sites that if. you don't know your world heritage 360 that will get you now is now. the law. of. october 3rd is germany's unity day and it's a national holiday here in germany the country has now been reunifying for 30 years

to mark the occasion there is a lot of celebrating going on in potsdam capital of the state a friend and berg. 2 comes down the city's center has been turned into an open air exhibition each of the 16 german states is showcased in a glass cube like this one. but central to the exhibition is of course the history of germany's division and eventually coming together as one unified nation. that fateful event in 1990 also paved the way for potsdam to recover some of its historical splendor. in the 30 years since germany's reunification potsdam has and aids a bit quite the contrary actually the city center has been completely agree. and

the pression palaces and parts have received a thorough beauty treatment most importantly though the days of walls and border fences separating potsdam from neighboring berlin are no longer. well spent part of the day strolling around parks towns famous palaces parks and gardens. we'll also take a tour of cecilia palace where the momentous potsdam conference took place. and as always we'll share our holiday video with you this time from my yorker. for over 2 centuries potsdam was the favorite residence of prussian kings evidence of that can still be seen in the city scape today. the mock or old market square with its all ballistic in the historical center of the city over the past 30 years the square has been reconstructed to resemble its former state. st

nicholas church is one of the few buildings around here that didn't have to be entirely rebuilt after the war. was standing in front of the st nicholas church the highlight tearing puts down on the church was designed by confrontation an architect who did quite a lot of work in this area why it was destroyed in the 2nd world war well that is to say the doing was destroyed it was rebuilt in the 1980 s. on the occasion of shingles 200th birthday then after reunification the church was renovated shingle staircase which we stored so people can now go out onto the roof you have a very nice view from up there. for example you can get a good look at the old city hall another of the original buildings there was refurbished in 2010 and now houses the museum of the city's history. the rest of

the neighborhood also changed a lot over the past 30 years. is in here and here we see the museum i knew arts museum it looks as if it or an old historical building but it's actually a new construction. it's modeled on the pilots about bahamian rome. well this is how it looked in the past the entire length of whom borsch tassel was lined with historic palace facades 3 have been rebuilt but to as you can clearly see were replaced by modern buildings we hear on the banks of the hafele so right behind this beautiful building is the river. that's where the best hotels and restaurants used to stand they all had terraces facing the water it looked a little bit like venice. there's a lot of italianate architecture in pakistan in. my head it probably would have

been easier to build something contemporary on a square out why that the city obvious for historic reconstruction. as there was a time when the half constructed shell of the huns auto artist to tear a big hulking block there was a prestige project for east germany and then in the wall fell the political situation changed and eventually a decision was made to tear it down so then the space was empty and open and there were plans to reconstruct potsdam city palace that is the state's parliament. and then someone thought hey we've got a great ensemble here with the old city hall innocent nicholas's church let's construct a state parliament in the historic style. phone. in 2014 the new version of potsdam as majestic city phallus was ready.

but columns are old bullet holes from the 2nd world war still clearly visible bits of the old city palace were integrated into the new one and over 100 places reconstruction must have been very expensive where did the money come from heaven i'm. really we've got public funding of course but there were also donations from private parties wealthy people sponsors and patrons but. they were citizens of potsdam and people who'd come to potsdam unfold in love with the city or. the historic facade of the state parliament for instance was paid by one man it cost 20000000 your anus of course. and part. classic skyline it's not finished yet a number of new old buildings are being planned one reason potsdam was such a favorite of prussian royalty was its location in the midst of

a lush landscape surrounded by rivers and lakes. the beautiful palaces gardens and castles they built earned potsdam the nickname burstein of the north the bell the dare for instance wasn't a presidential palace it was built for the sole purpose of providing an outlook. from up here you can get a great view over the landscape the royals of your left so much. during the cold war this entire landscape was fragmented by militarized zones and fortified border separating east and west and 998 though the palaces and parks of pottstown were reunited with those in berlin on the other side of the river hostel

and in that same year unesco declared the ensemble to be the 1st all german world heritage site. there are 16 palaces in. the best known and most popular is. it was also the favorite of its building prussian king frederick the great. the rococo palace has only 12 rooms frederick called it his vineyard with a hint of russian understatement. frederick spent his winters in pots palace and his summers here where he could be without a care. in french. granda was the new palace frederick had built slowly for a show to receive state guests nearly all the monarchs of europe pass through here .

seems as if every prussian keenly fulfilled his dream of having a palace built here. frederick william the 4th and added a touch of italy to the park with his oratory palace. it was designed to house the tropical plants in the gardens collection oranges and palm trees it's the largest palace in some suit. none of these palaces get lost among the trees avenues and sidelines direct to the eye to the masterpieces of architecture the chinese house for instance and in the distance one peacock island in the river half full a small sum of palace what looks like a fairy tale castle is merely a wooden imitation a royal love nest built by frederick william the 2nd for his mistress. c.

over on the berlin side of the river is an italian style villa with a view of the water greenacre palace. prince carlos prussia and his wife lived here the relatively modest in size the best talent of the day were commissioned to design the palace and the surrounding park architects cull friedrich and gardener and landscape architect peter hughes who fled name it was the artistic collaboration of these 2 men that gave the palaces parks and gardens of potsdam and that distinctive character. a romantic palace in a prime location but unfortunately not 1st sale the marble palace is also part of

the unesco world heritage ensemble. the east german government repurpose the damage palace as an army museum this courtyard was used as exhibition ground for missiles and other military apparatus the border wall was not far from here saskia who has been following the developments of potsdam palaces since the 1970 she's an art historian and helped pave the way towards acquiring the pristine just world heritage status and we've seen it we're seeing plenty of people taking walks riding their bikes was this area as accessible in the days of east germany to the idea as it does now it's for the most part it was accessible all 3 garden areas and most of the palaces as well today to fly into positions this was a tourist highlight of instrument a major cultural institution alongside the museums in berlin and christensen's is going to win other words it made for a pretty backdrop but how did east germany handle the pressure in legacy into. now

that's up to him lover to do they are off into the could it changed over time in east germany. after world war 2 the general tendency was outwith the old to create some distance to the past and that was probably true elsewhere too well not just in me but here in history was regarded as a creed to sesa to the german empire or even naziism and that it was feudal is unacceptable. for the skies are as tight as kinds of isis or their eyes forgetting does not. accept or changed over time starting in the 1960 s. or 1970 s. at the latest restoration on the state palaces and gardens began and the funds needed to do that began to flow up to a long enough you haven't done. that a lot has changed around here in the past 30 years which was the 1st task taken up after reunification it's

a funny thing as an art historian i was the custody and of the sculpture collection . the 1st thing my restoration colleagues did after the monetary union in some 1998 was to travel to corolla and purchase marble so i did that at long last they could use it for restoration work and perhaps some copies. and then the gardeners and garden historians quickly set to work repairing the damage the berlin wall had inflicted on us back part of the new garden. pop up it's back when everyone got time to decide to the gardens had to be restored to their former glory it was a top priority getting the avenue this landscape distance back to the way they'd been in the 18th and 19th century which is what eventually led to the ensemble being added to unesco's world cultural heritage list. just

gusting up and i were at a heritage that is in 1990 that happened quite fast had the wave been paved before the fall of the wall and ceiling are going down whatever light in the house is interestingly in the late 1989 both west berlin and potsdam in other words east germany initiated the process of getting the respective sides of the ensemble to the world cultural heritage listed by the time it actually came to pass reunification had already happened and it became one complete cultural landscape as well as i because i'm too quick to and i'm chuffed. for the history culture and scenery and potsdam attract tourists from around the globe typically the city welcomes over a 1000000 visitors a year but potsdam isn't just popular with travelers it's also one of the few eastern german cities that's growing in size in 199140000 people lived here today it's close to 180000. number of celebrities have bought property here since

reunification the reasons are obvious where else can you live smack in the middle of a city and at the same time be surrounded by water and major as far as the eye can see. from potsdam well now hop on over to the aegean sea more precisely to the island of santorini normally the greek island is a popular tourist destination but the corona virus has left things rather quiet cost us about as lives on centering me and wants to show us his home region and another edition of our segment meet a local. woke up there while you're the. sort. this avoid conic cross and shape

violence in the south any chance. normally would complain about over tourism but this year because of the button that maybe that is empty. so this is one of the more famous postcard pictures from the silence the famous blue dome and feelers to find him with a cane in the background the dome symbolizes the sky basically the void of the sky and in the case of spain to the blue circle of the heart of them the number of churches we have this is more than that there's something here. so something has 14 villages i had a comment besides the vicar phoebus wants to give the smaller villages to try it. from a faction of people it's religious not to make on the whole the beatles tend to embody you know that at the moment a number you know. this

is supposed to be nice is ok but the beaches are empty. there's something even just not black because of the black with kani ghosh but there's also one more beach but this rant thread because a fight on all sides. that credo is that it's capital and the commercial center normally when these places would be open and talk should have a very busy but given the circumstances most of them are closed and therefore poem that definitely not this. couple could use a song for the whole market 1st of all so one of the good sort of this is here one of the more stake on except amounts off the islands with one of the more stuff photographed sunsets in the ward normally behind me over 3000 people would gather

for watching the sunsets this fewer people who give us more to feed off the 1980s. thanks for joining me and hopefully he will. get. back at potsdam i have arrived at a place that will forever receive special mention in 20th century history books cecilia inhofe palace. because there weren't any suitable locations available in devastated berlin at the end of the war in 1045 the allies met here and pottstown to stablish a new world order. the red star on the lawn was planted by soviet soldiers for this historic meeting the potsdam conference. until the end of 2020 visitors can learn

more about these defining days in the summer of $45.00 in a special exhibition. it was in this very room that the u.s. the u.k. and the sylvia union negotiated the future of post-war germany and europe. and the decisions made during the ponce 10 conference sorted things out at the end of the war on the other and also marked the beginning of the cold war a conflict that saw an iron curtain descend on the continent which eventually led to the construction of the wall. the pottstown conference made to sealion whole palace famous the world around but its history is remarkable way beyond those 16 days and $945.00 until that year served as the residence to the last german crown prince and princes william and secondly it was also the last palace the pression rulers had built in pottstown.

roses. in the. every shade. crown princess cecilia was educated. graceful and beautiful. no doubt g.l. shown many other women and she quickly became a style icon as well favored pompadour hairstyle was often copied word for and feared for the loss of a harley burnt overseas the palace with the royal couple took up residence a $917.00. cecilia study was photographed for an art magazine at the time the princess was the mother of 6 children. or mother to me it is fenced off of this window looks out on the princes garden and as the name suggests that's where the children played and cecilia could watch them play from her desk here at this ors.

it's easy to stumble over the threshold of the doorway leading into the next room just like on board the ship along with roses cecilia love the sea here in what was the silliest cabin on the furnishings original defense of their plea for this window actually comes from it's an authentic port on with the sliding glass pane. broil couples private chambers on the upper floor after painstaking restoration pink roses once again graced the rooms. and guided tours catarina bergman shares the history of hotel cecilia hoff with visitors. in the 1960 s. those who could afford it could spend the night here. under the noise of laos and the carpets were different of course. the ashtrays are quite nice back then people could still smell the conferences oh unfortunately the view from this room wasn't so attractive. the border wall ran right along the shoreline.

that was way guards patrolled. 945 the royal couple fled from the red army's approach to soviet occupiers expose the palace as a sunni and william never returned. the post-war parts time conference meets the syrian hof world famous. today after some some see it's the most visited palace in pottstown. the gly make a bridge a symbol of german division and reunification. this bridge connects berlin and brandenburg the border between the states goes right through it potsdam side of the bridge is painted in a light shade of green berlin side is slightly darker this line right here is where

potsdam and with it east germany and it and this right here was already west berlin . during the cold war the bridge was off limits to civilians and yet it was known the world over as the bridge of spies it was used as a point of exchange of undercover agents between the us and the soviet union. with the border now gone the hospital has become quite lively today it's a popular spot for boating and other watersports. do you have any idea what the germans favorite island is it's the belle erik island of mind your car it's in the mediterranean and belongs to spain my colleague elizabeth york went there for the 1st time in the summer and from the looks of it it won't be her last here's the e-mail she sent us.

i return to where i started because i can't leave potsdam without a souvenir. here so now i'm happy instagram or else get the chance to stage their own daring escape on the coverage. by memories from pops out those will go straight into my top secret file it was truly remarkable to see what has become of pots and these past decades and i will certainly be interesting to keep tabs on the city's evolution i hope you enjoyed our journey today thanks for joining me once more and i'll see you next time somewhere in germany.

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