Schloss Charlottenburg is the largest historic palace left in Berlin after the Second World War.
Initially, under the name of Lietzenburg (original name of the place where it was built), the Schloss (palace, castle) was built in the Italian Baroque style by the architect Arnold Nering commissioned by Sophie Charlotte, the wife of Frederick I of Prussia. The castle garden was designed by Siméon Godeau starting in 1697, in the style of a French garden. From 1788 it was gradually transformed into an English garden.