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Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
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Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
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Germany
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Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany
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About Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
The site includes a group of palace complexes and extended landscape gardens in the area surrounding Potsdam and Berlin. The area covered by the site is about 2064 hectares. It includes 150 constructions that were made from 1730 to 1916. It was included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990 under the cultural category. The site was designed against the background of monarchic ideas of the Prussian state which makes it more important.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
- In 1990, the site contains only a few places for World Heritage designation. The list was extended in 1992 and 1999 including some more monuments and parks in the site like Heilandskirche, Observatory in Babelsberg, Potsdam; Southern shore of the Jungfernsee, the village of Bornstedt and Lindenallee, Potsdam.
- There are many things to look at and admire at the site including Palaces, Parks, Lakes, and Riverside
- The Sans-Souci Palace which was built between 1745 and 1747 was used by popular French writer Voltaire during his stay in Germany.
- These areas were separated by the Berlin Wall which was between Potsdam and West Berlin but was combined during a Peaceful Revolution of 1989.
- The Potsdam landscape was designed by Peter Joseph Lenné.
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