Schloss Charlottenburg is the last surviving palace of the city and it's a good example of Baroque architecture. It was built as a summer retreat for Sophie Charlotte, the first queen of Prussia. Inside the palace, the collection of antiques and painting really shows you the passion Sophie ... Read review
The Schloss Charlottenburg Apartment is a small Berlin apartment for 2 persons, just 200 ... more
metres from the imposing baroque Charlottenburg palace in West Berlin, in an elegant, traditional area of the German capital. If youre coming to Berlin for a major event this apartment is just for you, as it is located just 2 km from the Berlin Messegelände trade & congress centre. Also at around the same
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Advantages: Nice garden, good for family Disadvantages: No
Schloss Charlottenburg is the last surviving palace of the city and it's a good example of Baroque architecture. It was built as a summer retreat for Sophie Charlotte, the first queen of Prussia. Inside the palace, the collection of antiques and painting really shows you the passion Sophie has for art and music. There is an impressive mosaic garden inside where you can take a walk. My personal impression of the garden is that it is a replica of the ... ...big fan of the design used in the French court.
On the garden grounds are two buildings: the mosoleum and the Belvedere.The mosoleum houses the tombs of a few former Prussian royals. As for the Belvedere, it used to be a teahouse but it is now the home of a collection of 18-19 century porcelain. ... more
Schloss Charlottenburg is the last surviving palace of the city and it's a good example of Baroque architecture. It was built as a summer retreat for Sophie Charlotte, the first queen of Prussia. Inside the palace, the collection of antiques and painting really shows you the passion Sophie has for art and music. There is an impressive mosaic garden inside where you can take a walk. My personal impression of the garden is that it is a replica of the Palace de Versailles-well it is believed that Sophie was a big fan of the design used in the French court.
On the garden grounds are two buildings: the mosoleum and the Belvedere.The mosoleum houses the tombs of a few former Prussian royals. As for the Belvedere, it used to be a teahouse but it is now the home of a collection of 18-19 century porcelain.
Advantages: beautiful;, fascinating, reasonable, the coffins Disadvantages: chrage for toilet and church, museum and website only in German
. Wilhelm II is buried in the Netherlands where he was exiled after World War 1. he wanted to be buried alongside his ancestors in the Berliner Dom only if Germany became a monarchy again. Thus he will never be reunited with his family.
Cross the cathedral floor to the fabulous ornate tombs of King Friedrich I (the first king in Prussia but not of Prussia since there was no crown) and his cultured beautiful wife Sophie Charlotte who also founded the wonderful SchlossCharlottenburg which is also well worth a visit. I found the figure of death writing in a book to be particularly striking on Sophie Charlotte's tomb.
Head out of the cathedral to the upper floors and do not forget to take in the smaller Baptism and Weddings church and the impressive imperial staircase. Head upstairs to a small museum with models and artifact from ...
duskmaiden 02.04.2008
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