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Sanssouci Sans Souci Sanssouci (French "without cares") is the Palace and surrounding Park built in Potsdam, Germany by Frederick the Great. The Sanssouci Palace itself was built between 1745 and 1747; Voltaire once stayed there. A number of other palaces and sites are also part of Sanssouci, including the Neues Palais (New Palace) built in the late eighteenth century in imitation of the Versailles Palace. Together with other palaces and related sites in the Berlin area, Sanssouci is a UNESCO World Heritage Site http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=532. Sites within Sanssouci include - Sanssouci Palace, former palace of the Prussian royal and German imperial families
- Orangery Palace, former palace for foreign royal guests
- Neues Palais ("New Palace"), an additional palace in Sanssouci Park, built in 1769, in the style of Versailles Palace
- Charlottenhof, another palace in Sanssouci Park, by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1826)
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