A single-storey Rococo palace on terraced slopes, with clipped parterres and fountains below it.
What Sanssouci Park looks like
The palace is a single-storey Rococo villa on a terraced vineyard hillside, dating from the 1740s. Its principal block has ten main rooms, and the garden front is decorated with carved atlantes and caryatids. Glazed niches pierce the supporting walls of three wide terraces, and a central stair of 132 steps runs down through them.
A straight main avenue 2.5 kilometres long runs through the park to the , which marks its western end. The flank the palace and open onto rondels with fountains, surrounded by marble statues. From there paths lead in a star pattern between tall hedges.
The stands on the northern edge of the park, in an Italian Renaissance style dating from the 1850s and 1860s. It is about 300 metres long and one of the larger palaces in the park. Brandenburg tourism lists it as closed for renovation until further notice.
The is a garden pavilion in the Roe Deer Garden, dating from the 1750s. Life-sized gilded figures of Chinese musicians and tea drinkers decorate its outside. The stands in the park with a tall campanile and a neighbouring group of buildings.
Shot in Sanssouci Park
One production is credited below, at one of the park's buildings. Its outdoor shoot in Potsdam was reported finished in September 2026.
Please
The Chinese House
Halina Reijn directed the historical film Please, which shot at the Chinese House in Sanssouci Park. The pavilion was one of the last stops of the film's outdoor shoot in Potsdam.
What Sanssouci Park can double for
Peterhof in Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Grand Palace stands on a bluff above a cascade of 64 fountains, and the Samson Fountain at the foot of the cascade dates from the 1730s. Sanssouci's terraces step down from the palace in a similar way. The Sea Channel bisects the Lower Gardens, so keep the shot on the cascade and the palace above it. Try searching palace cascade fountains now.
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel, Germany
A Great Cascade 350 metres long runs down the hillside from a 40-metre pyramid topped by a Hercules statue, and the water runs on down to Schloss Wilhelmshöhe at the foot. Sanssouci's terraces are stepped in the same way, but they climb to the palace rather than falling from it. The Hercules pyramid is the giveaway in a wide frame, so keep the top of the hill out of shot. Try searching palace cascade hillside now.
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