Sans Souci

Sans Souci (French for "without worries" or "carefree"), sometimes spelled Sans-Souci, Sans-souci, SansSouci or Sanssouci, may refer to:

Place names

United States

• Sans Souci, Michigan, unincorporated community
• Sans Souci, South Carolina, census-designated place
• Sans Souci Island, an island located in the Cedar River at Waterloo, Iowa
• Sans Souci, Virginia, located on the beach

Other

• Sans Souci, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia
• Sanssouci Park, surrounding Frederick the Great's summer palace in Potsdam, Germany (see below)
• Sans Souci, Mahé, Seychelles, a district near Victoria
• Sans Souci, KwaZulu-Natal, a settlement near the lower Tugela River, South Africa
• Sans Souci Terminal, redevelopment of the Port of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic
• Sans Souci, Trinidad, a coastal village on the north-eastern corner of the Caribbean island

Palaces

• Sanssouci, Frederick the Great's summer palace in Potsdam, Germany
• Sans Souci, colonial-era name of Istana Bogor, one of the presidential palaces of Indonesia
• Sans-Souci Palace, a Haitian palace erected by freed slaves in early 19th century

Music

• "Sans Souci" (album), 2011 album by British band Brontide
• Sans Souci (album), 2003 album by Australian band Frenzal Rhomb
• "Sanssouci" (song), a song by the singer-composer-musician Rufus Wainwright, from his album Release the Stars, named for the German palace
• "Sans Souci", the alma mater (song) of Columbia College, Columbia University, New York City

Other

• USS Sans Souci II (SP-301), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919
• Sans Souci, an Italian pale lager brand owned by Heineken International

See also

• San Souci (including "Sansouci" spelling), a variant that is common as a surname