Tag: monuments


  • The Berlin’s Champs-Elysées: the long boulevard “Unter den Linden” which echoes over four centuries of history.

  • The green lung of the German capital, from hunting reserve of the royal family to city park where to jog, picnic, and enjoy the sun in the summer.

  • It was once the largest synagogue in Germany, the testimony of the presence of a large Jewish community, and a symbol of pride of the Berlin Jews.

  • Messy, frenetic, and full of questionable architectural works, Alexander Platz has always been the most famous square in Berlin.

  • Crossroads of the history of the twentieth century, Berlin was bound to dedicate a monument to one of the darkest moments of our past: in an area located just 1 km from the Brandenburg Gate, 2711 concrete blocks of varying heights make up the Holocaust Memorial, an act of commemoration for the 6 million Jews…

  • A short walk from Museum Island stands imposing the sumptuous Berlin Cathedral, whose present appearance dates back to 1904, after that in 1894 Emperor Wilhelm II ordered the old cathedral to be demolished, too simple and classic, to make way for a dome that adequately reflected the magnitude of the Lutheran religion and the power…

  • From the Brandenburg Gate runs the Unter den Linden, literally the boulevard “Unter the Linden”, the most famous boulevard in Berlin that extends for over 1km to the Museum Island, declared a World Heritage Site for its architectural singularity and the invaluable heritage preserved in its museums.

  • The Brandenburg Gate completes the trio of iconic symbols of the Cold War, the background of an image that has been around the world, and a bulwark of divided Berlin.

  • The scene of one of the hottest moments of the Cold War, Checkpoint Charlie was one of the places of passage between East Berlin and West Berlin, armored and controlled by the US military, built in the section of wall at the confluence of two of the main arteries of the city: between Friedrichstraße and…

  • “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” said the US President Ronald Reagan, during his famous speech in Berlin in 1987.