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Alexanderplatz
The one place in Berlin you never can
miss because of the TV-tower with its characteristic globe on top.
It's a restaurant and you can see it from miles away.
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Bahnhof Zoo
Europe's sensation in
2008:
Knut, the icebear-baby. Grown up in Berlin's zoo. But Knut isn't
everything, there's more to Zoo Station...
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Bergmannstraße
Only cemeteries,
gravediggers and shops for gravestones?
No no, you just started your visit at the wrong end. There are other
sides to this street...
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Bernauer Straße
Bernauer Str.
is the only existing part of the wall with all its original
fortifications, barriers, no-man’s land, death strip, floodlights
and a second security wall to slow down would-be fugitives.
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Brandenburger Tor
You need a riksha for
your trip through Berlin? Or a horse-powered carriage? Then Brandenburg Gate
is the right place for you...
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Breitscheidplatz
Brimming with tourists, street artists, shops and restaurants of all
kinds, the place is a heavily visited point of interest in Berlin’s
district of Charlottenburg.
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Bundestag
It's here, where you probably can find the longest
queues in Berlin. Especially in Summer, people are queueing up for
hundreds of meters. They all want to visit the huge
glass cupola...
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Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie was a crossing
point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War,
located at the intersection of
Friedrichstraße with Kochstraße.
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Eastside Gallery
1990 was THE year for Berlin's
young artists. The completely naked eastern side of "THE WALL" had
to be painted with graffiti. It took a couple of months, but finally
the job was completed...
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Friedrichstraße
Were the fuck is that exclusive and
expensive shopping area that Friedrichstraße is famous for?
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Hackescher Markt
A central tourist area
with lots of restaurants, bars, cafes and cinemas.
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Hauptbahnhof
More then just trains. Berlin's
central railway station always is good for extraordinary events. For
example the sand festival...
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Holocaust Memorial
This was supposed to be a memorial for
the murdered Jews in Europe. Although the intentions were good, it
just doesn't work out. You hardly meet people standing there,
thinking about Jews...
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Kreuzberg
Free mountain climbing in Berlin? No
joke.
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Kurfürstendamm
Berlin's most famous boulevard.
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Liebknechtbrücke
This is the place to catch a watertaxi
for a one hour trip on River Spree through Berlin's inner city. The
taxis actually are bigger ships, don't expect a Venice-type gondola.
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Lustgarten & Dom
The Lustgarten ("Pleasure Garden") is a
park on Museum Island in central Berlin, near the site of the former
Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City
Palace), to which it originally belonged.
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Museumsinsel
If you like to walk up and down museums
for ages, this is the right place for you.
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Niederkirchner Straße
In Niederkirchner Str. you find
the most visited part of the Berlin wall. That's because it's pretty
central and all sightseeing busses go here.
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Nikolaiviertel
It's here, where it all started out in
the 13th century. What today is Nikolaiviertel was then a little
village called Berlin.
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Oberbaumbrücke
In summer the bridge is great for
water-battles, on new year's eve you can watch impressive fireworks.
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Oranienburger Straße
The street is famous for its
multitude of restaurants, cafes and bars, it also is a
great nightlife strip and red light district.
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Potsdamer Platz
Here you can get rid of your
money. The place is one huge shopping center.
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Sony Center
It's a mix of shops, restaurants, a
conference centre, hotel rooms, luxurious rented suites and
condominiums, offices, art and film museums, an IMAX cinema, showing
3D movies all the time and a "Sony Style" store.
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Sowjetisches Ehrendenkmal
The Soviet War Memorial is a
vast military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park. It was built
to commemorate 5,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who died in the
Battle of Berlin.
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Treptower Hafen
The harbour in the district of Treptow
is one of Berlin's biggest. If you want to board a tourist ship,
that's the place to go.
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Unter den Linden
This is former East Berlin's
posh boulevard. It is named for its Linden trees (lime trees) that
line the grassed pedestrian mall between two carriageways.
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Zenner Biergarten
A pub with tradition. It started out
around 1850 as a place where families could make their own coffee in
the garden alongside river Spree. Well, that changed a bit...
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Zeughaus
The street "Am Zeughaus" is Berlin's
tourist market. Here you get everything you really need. Postcards,
T-shirts, paintings and whatever.
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