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Sunday, December 22, 2019

Germany - Berlin

Berlin is super different from the rest of Germany.
It is full of historical and cultural landmarks.

Brandenburg gate of Berlin, probably the most famous landmark of German capital

The next famous sight is the German Reichstag,

The Berliner Dom is another famous spot in city

After WW2 Berlin has been split into two parts, one of the parts DDR backed by USSR has built a wall, germans call it Mauer or Berliner Mauer.
After demolition of the wall some parts are left, like this one called East Side Gallery.

At East Side Gallery there are many high quality graffiti works, like this one devoted to prominent physicist and human right activist Andrei Sakharov

But the most famous site is probably the kiss of USSR and DDR leaders

The east side gallery part of the wall is being maintained in a proper way, whereas the part of original wall in original untouched shape looks like this

The S-Bahn of Berlin has its specific style and colors

One of the famose squares of the Berlin is Alexander Platz, it is a gathering place of different type of people

Some people are quit free in their actions

The trash containers in Berlin are spherical

The DDR part of the city can be easily spotted with communistic architecture

Monument to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Potsdamer Platz is the business and skyscraper center

This is hotel Adlon. Michael Jackson has stopped here and it famous by the incident when he was showing his newborn child from balcony and dangerously dangled the child.

Berlin is full of historical spots, this is the underground monument in front of Humboldt university.
It is dedicated to the books which were burned by pre-national socialist movement activists.

After some year WW2 has followed with its devastating results.
In the very center of Berlin a huge quarter is devoted to the victims of Holocaust

This checkpoint used to be crossing border in between Soviet and Western parts of Berlin

Berlin has a UNESCO Heritage sight of museums, it's called Museum Insel or Museum Island

Some very cool world wide famous Exponats are on display there, like the bust of Nefertiti.
Most of them are not allowed to be photographed, but to show the richness of the collection just have a look at this super realistic ancient Egyptian sculpture

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