The city of Berlin, Berlin attractions, travel to Berlin, Berlin photo

Background

Berlin is located in the eastern part of Germany, midway between the rivers Elbe and Oder, about 177 km from the coast of the Baltic Sea.In 1871-1945 the capital of Germany.In 1948 Berlin was divided into two parts, East Berlin and West Berlin.Soviet and American tanks, ready at any moment to speak to defend their understanding of the word "freedom", stood, aiming at each other, the CPT Charlie ...Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, not only shared ideology, but also of people.

The western part has been "an island" with guest quarters and Vilmersdorfa Sharlottenburga with luxury commercial streets Kurfyurstendamm (or just Kudamm, as used to say themselves Berlin), with the green parts of the leisure and alternative party in the working-class districts and areas Kroytsberg Noykeln.West Berlin was the stronghold of the German avant-garde art and politics.

On the other side of the Berlin Wall is held "exemplary" capital of the German Democratic Republic, "the first State of workers and peasants on German soil."The broad avenues, Alley Stalin, leading to the injury of the area Aleksanderplatts would have given the capital city glamour.But East Berlin and became a center of intellectual elites GDR, whose social ideal is not always translated into genuine socialist system.

In 1990 the Berlin Wall, shared with the city in 1961, was destroyed.Berlin became the capital of unified Germany, and in 1999 moved to the city authorities Germany.With tears of happiness in the eyes of strangers, Germans from East and West hugging in the streets, as if vossoedinivshayasya after long decades of separation from family.

Since then more than 10 years.Berlin became the capital of unified Germany.Fetisov pneumatic hammers, rumble of bulldozers and other construction equipment sets the rhythm of the city to this day.In a short time, builders, summoned to the vast construction site almost from around the world erected at the site boundary wall of the abandoned and new modern quarters.The square Potsdamerplatts today rose slightly transparent building-a single, pulsing, perelivayuschiysya lights quarter new Berlin.The whole city is experiencing a remarkable recovery and younger by the day.

City Sightseeing : Brandenburgckie gates, St. Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin Cathedral, the Museum of them.Bode, Pergamon Museum, Kulturforum, German Historical Museum, New National Gallery, Art Gallery of Daleme and Egyptian Museum, the Museum Island in r.Shpree, Museums Foundation for Prussian castles, the German State Opera, Palace Fridrihshtadtpalas street Unter den Linden, Aleksanderplatts, Lafayet Gallery, Church of Our Lady, Red Square-Fountain "Neptune", Castle Bellevue Hall Kongresshalle, New Synagogue, gothic Cathedral of St. Nicholas, area Braytshaydplatts, watches Globe, Pominoveniya Church, "House of Chekpoynt-Charli."One of the most beautiful places in the downtown-Charlottenberg Palace and the Reichstag, the world's largest zoo, the Berlin 125m Botanical Garden, a monument to Soviet soldiers killed - Treptov-Park.