with Bavaria Berlin is one of only two sites in Germany where it does recommend everyone take a plane to visit. What happened in this city in the twentieth century is an event that has marked the history of mankind, and which completely surrounds the atmosphere of the city when one is visiting. The ascent Nazi bombardment, the decade of the wall, the city split between the communist and capitalist ... Virtually every aspect of the city reflects the events of the last century, covering even the rest of the city's history.
is a huge city, so it is not feasible entire visit soon, but yes the most important parts can be covered in two or three days.
Although certainly not the best way to visit, I will organize the post as a stroll along the historic center berlinense, but the truth is to complete this trip in one day, it is very difficult, and if you enter museums, impossible.
begin our visit in the westernmost part of the ride, on the Kurfürstendamm, this is a place where he began the largest commercial avenue in Berlin, and is logically located in the old part of capitalism. It is the German equivalent of the Champs Elysees (though it lacks a lot to have the beauty of the latter). It's full of posh boutiques typical Gucci, Bvlgari, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Lacoste, Tommy Hilfiger ... The avenue begins at the ruins of the church in memory of Emperor Wilhelm, you can see in the photo on the left. After touring the avenue to consumer tastes, still digging a ride through the Tiergarten, the largest park in central Berlin and walking toward the Victory Column in central park (pictured right) from where the road starts June 17, which will guide all our ride.
continue walking down that road Tiergarten touring the end to end, and as we approach the end of the park, we turned south to the Potsdamer Platz. This plaza, which formerly had left the door where the road to Potsdam, was destroyed in the Second World War and the Berlin Wall split in two. Since the fall of the wall has been reconstructed with large buildings and is now a shopping mall with cinemas and some of the headquarters of German companies. The main attraction of the square is to have pieces of the Berlin Wall and the line where once was.
From there turn to the north to the street June 17, but not before stopping a moment at the monument to Holocaust .
And across the street June 17 we head to the Reichstag. The German parliament was heavily damaged when Hitler took power (as the Nazi version of "enemies of state"). Right now, it seems to me an essential visit. You can climb the glass dome, which is great and you can see parliament from both the top and great views of the city.
Leaving the Reichstag, we crossed the famous Brandenburg Gate to enter the main street of the historic center of Berlin: Uter den Linden.
Unter den Linden is the main part of the walk through the historic center berlinense. There are restored historic buildings in the city, as well as new buildings with foreign embassies and luxury stores. The National Library, the statue of Frederick the Great, Humboldt University, the neue Wache. Everything is on this street.
At the height of the Humboldt University is worth making a detour south to visit the Gendarmenmarkt, which has restored buildings house concerts, the French and the German Cathedral.
back to Unter den Linden, one option is to enter the museum of German history, but also can keep going, past the first channel and reach neoclassical cathedral Berlin, from where there are also good views of the television tower communist construction of 365 meters above the city. Beside the cathedral is also the National Gallery, and especially the Pergamon Museum, which I find essential.
If you continue the walk, reach the Alexanderplatz. The plaza, now fully in the communist municipality is dominated by the TV tower which I mentioned earlier. To the right is the city council, often called the Red City Hall, both for its color as your location and political parties. Its past is reflected in Karl Marx's statue in the center of the square.
If you keep walking east, falls squarely in the former communist post-war buildings. Worth a walk to observe the contrast. Huge concrete blocks with all the windows are exactly alike. Not much to see in that part of the city during the day, rather than realize the consequences of that Berlin was starting so many years.
addition to this tour visits some of the other points Typical are the Olympic Stadium and the Charlottenburg Palace, both recommended if you have time.
night, Berlin is famous for its nightlife. Besides the typical bars where the Germans are going to drink beer (and the basic unit in a pint), the two most typical areas are either going to punk bars in the east of the city, which are usually behind closed doors without no sign indicating that there's a pub. Or a techno sites, which are distributed throughout the city. The first night, I lost a friend and ended up in a very posh I think it was called Solar (although I'm not sure), but what I liked about this place was that I was in a fifteenth floor, and all the walls were glass, so that the views of the city at night were amazing. Unfortunately, I forgot where I was, and I'm not sure of the name.
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