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Advantages: Germany's capital and most interesting city Disadvantages: a bit too large, distances too long
Berlin*, Berlin,
Wir fahren nach Berlin!
(Berlin, Berlin,
We're heading for Berlin!)
(pronounced Ber-leen, stress on the second syllable)
This slogan has been chanted enthusiastically for ages whenever a German sports team made it to the capital for the last round, meanwhile it has left the confines of sports and is now even used by the Berlin Tourist Board for a campaign to attract visitors.
I've been to four Berlins in my life: when in my mother's womb I was in Berlin, then the capital of the Third Reich, from the GDR (German Democratic Republic), where we later lived, I visited Berlin once in the 1950s, a much smaller city then (only the Soviet sector), but still a capital, the capital of the GDR.
After fleeing to West Germany I visited West Berlin, not a capital any more, but no ordinary city, either, it had become ...
It is one of my life's ambitions to visit all the capital cities of Europe so I was thrilled when my parents said we could go to Berlin. Berlin is the Capital City of Germany and is located in the north-eastern part of the country.
We stayed in Berlin for four nights. That may not sound like a long time but we managed to cram an awful lot of exploring into our time there! I will go through which attractions we visited each day to give you an idea of how long it takes to see the main sights.
~ Day 1 ~
The majority of day one was travelling to Berlin. We flew with easyjet from Newcastle airport. It was late afternoon when we arrived at Schonefeld airport. It took us about an hour to get from the airport to our hotel (Marriott) which was in Berlin City's centre. After unpacking we went for a walk in the immediate area of our hotel ...
the Prussian Berlin was rebuilt.
Parisian Square which is 120 x 120 m in size then lies at the end of the street. Among other things the Brandenburg Gate is on it. During the dividing Berlin went a fallow area was the wall, Parisian Square directly at the Brandenburg Gate. After the union the place turned into a construction site, one finds the hotel Adlon, different banks, new buildings of the American, British and French embassies and the academy of the arts there next to the Brandenburg Gate today.
And then natural: the Brandenburg Gate. In the past, it was once a town gate and the conclusion of the splendour boulevard under the limewoods, after that it became to the symbol of the dividing Germany and later a symbol of the reunification. The famous quadriga has on top a busy story behind itself. Formed by Johann Gottfried Schadow it was ...
BACK_IN_BLACK_DEVIL 16.12.2006
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Product Information for "Art'Otel Berlin Mitte, Berlin" »
Product details
Rating
3 Stars
Rooms
109
Type
Hotel
Address
Wallstr. 70-73, Mitte, 10179 Berlin
City
Berlin
Country
Germany
County
Berlin
Manufacturer's product description
Art\\\'otel Berlin Mitte, situated in the center of Berlin, is a very unique building. Its amenities include an art gallery (with artworks from Georg Baselitz) and a glass-roofed atrium that links the modern hotel to the part of the building dating back to the 17th century. The hotel also has various banqueting and meeting rooms as well as two restaurants, to make sure that guests have a wide choice of facilities at their disposal.
