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Potsdam – Sanssouci Palace

September 15, 2014

There are more than 30 palaces in Berlin and Potsdam. Many are large and magnificent. But visitors are drawn to one smaller building in particular: Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam

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Sanssouci Palace
Sanssouci Palace

The palace was the favorite place of the man who built it: Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. He drew up the sketches for the Rococo building which was constructed between 1745 and 1747. The artistic minded King spent the summer months here, debating with Voltaire and playing music with Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. It’s where he could be without worries, Sanssouci, as the name means in French.

Potsdam – Sanssouci Palace