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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 ...
wanted to see before we even got to Berlin. The Sony Centre is located in Potsdamer Platz (the new centre of Berlin) and it houses apartments, offices, trade and catering businesses and a cinema with a film museum. We walked round and took some photos but we didn't really know what was there so we didn't go inside any of the buildings. We intended to go back and have another look round but we never really got the chance.
We went for a walk not really knowing where we were going but it wasn't long before we came across Brandenburger Tor (The Brandenburg Gate). The Brandenburger Tor is a former city gate and the symbol of Berlin. It was built between 1788 and 1791. In 1961, the gate was closed when the Berlin Wall was built. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the gate symbolised freedom and the unity of the city. It re-opened on 22 December ...
Reichstag 1996 - 99 as a headquarters of the German Bundestag was put on a glass dome again and according to plans of the British architect Sir Norman Forster. One can go to these free of charge, must expect a waiting time in front of the entrance, though. It has lasted with me on a weekday approx. 30 minutes until I was driven up in the lift and could climb up about a spiralförmige ramp to the observation platform in 50 m of height. The building can be visited daily from 8:00 to 24:00 hours, is the last admission at 22:00 hours.
I then spent the evening at the Potsdam place in the Sony centre. This has an area of about 25,000 square metres and was completed in June 2000. The film museum Berlin and the Sony-Europazentrale houses cinemas, restaurants. However, spectacular is particularly the tent-roof of the centre. In addition, the Potsdam ...
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