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10 things you dont expect to find in Berlin
« on: January 01, 2010, 06:56:58 AM »
You know the Brandenburg Gate, but did you know that?

1. Looks like Paris, but these elaborate buildings are from a periodcalled Gründerzeit (founders time of the German Empire) and can stillbe found in larger numbers in several districts like Charlottenburg.

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Re: 10 things you dont expect to find in Berlin
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2010, 06:57:18 AM »
2. A large Synagogue, called the Neue Synagoge. It was nearly destroyed in WWII and rebuilt in the 1980s.
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Re: 10 things you dont expect to find in Berlin
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2010, 06:57:34 AM »
3. Still inside Berlin, lots of forests ans lakes are part of the city area. This is the Müggelsse.
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Re: 10 things you dont expect to find in Berlin
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2010, 06:57:50 AM »
4. Even in 2008 there are some buildings in the city centre which aresprankled with bullet holes from WWII. This is next to the Museumisland.
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Re: 10 things you dont expect to find in Berlin
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2010, 06:58:06 AM »
5. The tower belongs to the French Cathedral at the Gendarmenmarkt inthe center of the city. Along with the Pariser Platz is shows thelasting Connection to France.
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Re: 10 things you dont expect to find in Berlin
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2010, 06:58:20 AM »
6. The Stalinallee (now Karl-Marx-Alle) is a really monumentalboulevard in Eastberlin. It was built in the 1950s to demonstrate thesuperiority of communism over capitalism. The buildings were supposedto be palaces for the working class.
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Re: 10 things you dont expect to find in Berlin
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2010, 06:58:33 AM »
7. The Frankfurter Tor is a monumental gate-a-like-towers at the former Stalinallee.
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Re: 10 things you dont expect to find in Berlin
« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2010, 06:58:47 AM »
8.Surprisingly colored facade of a high rise building (GSW Hochhaus) from the 1990s
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« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2010, 06:59:01 AM »
9. Looks like old Berlin, but the Nikolaiviertel was destroyed in WWIIand reconstructed in the 1980s in Eastberlin. If you take a closer lookyou see the concrete slabs it is made off.
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Re: 10 things you dont expect to find in Berlin
« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2010, 06:59:23 AM »
10. A fortress from the late medieval times called the Zitadelle Spandau, I wonder what it protected?
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