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Best Things To See In Berlin
By CruiseDirector | February 1, 2010
1. Table Berlin’s history in one street
Start your holiday with a amble down the Unter den Linden: its monuments draw the city’s growth, from the Hohenzollern dynasty through to the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the GDR appartamenti berlino mitte. The crucial tip is the Brandenburg Gate, installed as a triumphal curve to mark Prussia’s capital city in 1791, with the Quadriga sculpture on top. The Gate of Peace was a sight of party when the Wall came down hotel Alexanderplatz. To the west of the door is the pleasing Tiergarten; to the north is the Reichstag < housing the German parliament; to the south is the main shopping street of Friedrichstrasse and to the east is Museum Island.
2. Potter around Potsdamer Platz
South of the Tiergarten sits the Potsdamer Platz >, the reunified city’s viable centrepiece. In the 1920s, Potsdamer Platz was one of the Continent’s busiest squares. Fascinatingly, Europe’s first-ever traffic lights were put up here in 1924, of which you can see a replica. Then, the square was bombed even throughout the Second World War and bisected by the Wall, paving the way for a US-style development of high-rise blocks. Now, it looks to a certain extent like an isolated island with landmarks such as Helmut Jahn’s Sony Center, the CineStar multiplex, the more unusual Arsenal cinema and the Filmmuseum Berlin Potsdamer Platz is the key location for the Berlin International Film Festival each February. At almost 60 years old, it has become one of the world’s most important film award ceremonies.
3. Get the better of Museum Island
If you place on the eastern end of Unter den Linden, you’re only a stone’s chuck left from a museum: five in total. They live in an island on the river Spree called Museumsinsel (Museum Island). Designed as a sanctuary for arts and science that was structured on ancient Greece, it included the first public museum of Prussia, the Altes Museum (1830). A group of museums quickly settled the island, counting the Alte Nationalgalerie the Bode Museum, the Neues Museum (Bodenstrasse 1-3, Mitte) and the Pergamonmuseum. Freshly, they’ve been undergoing an all-embracing overhaul that will relate them with an archaeological public walk. The treasures of the Pergamonmuseum should not be missed; they comprise a splendid altar and fresco dating from 170-159 BC, which is one of the greatest legacies of Classical antiquity.
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