With elegant antebellum buildings and luxury boutiques, the western Charlottenburg neighborhood is known for its elegant atmosphere. The Kurfürstendamm shopping boulevard is bordered by hotels and department stores. Charlottenburg Palace and Park offers baroque interiors and carefully landscaped gardens. Savignyplatz, a pre-war center for literature and performing arts, is now surrounded by Asian restaurants, which attract an international audience.

In Neuer Flügel (new wing of the Charlottenburg Palace), you can view staterooms and the Rococo Ballroom known as the Goldene Gallery. The silver vault includes quite amazing tableware made of gold, silver, glass and porcelain displayed on the tables. About 100 table services survived intact, a vivid reminder of the greatness of the table in court. The impressive display of the remaining pieces from the jewels of the Prussian crown, complete with imperial emblems, as well as personal treasures, such as elaborate, refined snuffboos collected by Friedrich the Great, are also worth seeing. The porcelain cabinet in the Old Palace - reopened on October 1, 2017 - offers an amazing collection of the best blue-white porcelain that decorates the entire room.
The Charlottenburg Palace Park and grounds were designed by French landscape architect Siméon Godeau, a pupil of André le Nôtre, the principal gardener of Louis XIV of France at Versailles - the model emulated by all the gardens of European courts in the Baroque era. But patterns in spatial planning have changed over the years, and successors Sophie Charlotte have redesigned the land in the fashion of their day - as an English-style park. Highlights of the park are the mausoleum, the Belvedere tea house and the Neuer Pavilion, a small neo-classical house modeled on a Neapolitan villa.
The mausoleum - Queen Louise was much loved by her subjects - and was deeply mourned when she died in 1810, at just 34 years old. For the "queen of hearts" of her time, King Friedrich Wilhelm III, her husband, had a mausoleum resembling a classical temple built in the Park. He also commissioned the leading sculptor of the German figure, Christian Daniel Rauch, to carve an impressive funeral sculpture of Louise to decorate his sarcophagus. Friedrich Wilhelm married again, about fourteen years later, but since his second wife came from a low-ranking noble family, she was kept more or less removed from court life. When she died in 1873, she was buried in the crypt enclosed in the mausoleum, under the antechamber, without a memorial memorial and not even a memorial tablet.