Sanssouci Park

This guide to Sanssouci Park in Berlin turns on a windmill still standing beside Frederick the Great's summer palace, and a legend that the king once tried to silence its creaking sails by force. You'll hear the version passed down for centuries, about a stubborn miller named Gravenitz said to have stood up to royal power itself, and how historians eventually traced the tale back to a version printed in Paris after Frederick had died. Stand among the terraced gardens Frederick shaped around his palace, and listen for what the legend leaves out.