Historical Day Trips from Berlin: Where to Go and How to Plan

The best historical day trips from Berlin are Potsdam, for Prussian palaces and the 1945 Potsdam Conference; the Sachsenhausen Memorial, for the history of Nazi persecution; Dresden, for Baroque Saxony and its postwar reconstruction; and Hamburg, for Hanseatic trade and maritime history. If the Reformation or the Peaceful Revolution of 1989 interests you more, Lutherstadt…