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Bellevue Palace, set in parkland beside the River Spree at the edge of the great Tiergarten park in Berlin, is the official residence of the President of Germany and one of the city's most elegant neoclassical buildings. The palace was built in 1786 for a younger brother of the Prussian king Frederick the Great, designed in the early neoclassical style with a graceful white facade, and it takes its name, meaning beautiful view, from the pleasant outlook it once enjoyed over the river and gardens...