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Charlottenburg Palace
The largest palace in Berlin, a baroque summer home of Prussia's kings and queens, with formal gardens by the Spree.
- Open
- Tuesday to Sunday; closed Mondays
- Price
- Paid; the gardens are free
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Spandauer Damm 10–22, 14059 BerlinDirections
- Getting There
- Bus M45 or 109 from Zoologischer Garten.
Why Go
Begun in the 1690s for Queen Sophie Charlotte, the palace has gilded state rooms, a porcelain cabinet and Frederick the Great's apartments in its new wing.
Its gardens, with a mausoleum and a tea house, are free.
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