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Workers restore a ceiling in the oval room of Frederick the Great’s New Palace in Parc Sanssouci in Potsdam.
IN the mid-1740s, Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, decided he needed a break from his bustling Berlin castle. Seventeen miles away in Potsdam, he built a one-story rococo castle atop a slope, eventually adding more than 700 acres of manicured parks and buildings to a place he would name Sanssouci, French for “… (View original article)