OF SPUDS AND GEMS: BERLIN’S PALACE MONBIJOU

In this episode of "Berlin Companion Podcast" we are travelling back in time to the second half of the 17th century to witness some royal shenanigans (including several weddings, an extramarital affair, a couple of deaths and a crowning) and follow the fate of a lovely royal palace, whose ghostly outline might or might not be still visible there on quiet moonlit Berlin nights... And whose gardens were the birthplace of Prussia's favourite veg.

You will find Berlin's 1748 city plan (Plan de la ville et des fauxbourgs de Berlin) here - to locate Spandauer Tor and Spandauer Brücke look for St Marien Kirche und look right above it. Map via ZLB Digital.

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