Potsdam on the Havel river just beyond the southwestern tip of Berlin, was the address of German bigwigs from the 17th century onwards, a good example of their legacy being Schloss Sanssouci castle, commissioned by Friedrich the Great in the mid-18th century and emulating the French grandeur of the time.

Stasi HQ is the old headquarters of the German Democratic Republic's secret police force (the notorious Stasi). located in the graceless suburbs of East Berlin. The Stasi headquarters can be visited and they are interesting not for what can be seen, but rather what went on there. Kreuzberg, Southwest of Berlin's CBD, is a dynamic neighbourhood that has been settled by trendy anarchists and Turkish immigrants alike.

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