. Romantic Germany. THL MARBLfc PALACE UN TUT HOL\ LAkL. BABELSBERG POTSDAM berg, with its huge, unfinished belvedere in the styleof the Florentine Renaissance. It is difficult not to spend days among these out-posts of Potsdam. Indeed, it is an achievement togain a clear idea of the town, so numerous are itsinteresting points and so widely dispersed. The way to the oldest part leads through thedrowsy Dutch quarter, the austere red-brick housesof which, with their unfamiliar gables, were builtby Frederick William I in a curious fit of enthusiasmfor the architecture of Holland. Through a courtl
. Romantic Germany. THL MARBLfc PALACE UN TUT HOL\ LAkL. BABELSBERG POTSDAM berg, with its huge, unfinished belvedere in the styleof the Florentine Renaissance. It is difficult not to spend days among these out-posts of Potsdam. Indeed, it is an achievement togain a clear idea of the town, so numerous are itsinteresting points and so widely dispersed. The way to the oldest part leads through thedrowsy Dutch quarter, the austere red-brick housesof which, with their unfamiliar gables, were builtby Frederick William I in a curious fit of enthusiasmfor the architecture of Holland. Through a courtlyold street flows a canal—a dozing canal—the func-tion of which is to float its groups of stately swansand to convince the traveler that he is in some quietcorner of Amsterdam. Beside the Church of the Holy Ghost, in theshadow of Potsdams finest steeple, one may linger,watching the informal river life and enjoying thequaint houses that huddle on the banks. This isthe site of Potsdams earliest civilization. Here inthe swamp lived the ancient Semnone
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