Berlin
History's Greatest Cities
Frederick the Great and the Berlin of the 19th Century
Frederick the Great was almost a would-be artist and poet, yet also a soldier and a commander. He built the most beautiful palace, the Pink Sansu Sea in Potsdam. And again, there's that dilemma, the two sides of Berlin, the conformist and the independent thinker,. The architecture of the time, especially through Schinkl, is so positive and totally lacking in doubt.
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