Ronald
Active Member
This is the last one of my 3 threads about Berlin, and my first thread here at the new forum.
Flying into the city
View from the hotel
Potsdamer Platz' skyscrapers and the Fernsehturn in the distance.
A shopping street in the west of Berlin, the 'Wilmersdorfer Strasse', where our hotel was located aswell.
The Dome of Berlin, located on the museum island.
Small details of the Dome.
The 'Altes Museum', also located on the museum island.
The Pergamon Museum, Germany's equivalent of London's British Museum or Paris' Louvre.
Humbolt University
The faculty of Law
Statue of Humbolt.
The beginning of Unter den Linden, the Champs Elysées of Berlin
At the end of Unter den Linden, the Brandenburger Gate shows up
The French Embassy, near the Gate.
The Reichstag, where the German parliament holds it's daily debates.
There was no shortage of tourists, too
The Spree river, between the new central station and the Reichstag.
This is sort of a beach, except that you can't swim in the river, you can sit in beachchairs and enjoy the weather. It's called 'Capital Beach', referring to the fact that Berlin is Germany's capital (again since the East and West were reunited).
Stadtmitte is a dense neighbourhood in the center of Berlin. It has a grid pattern, broad avenues and plenty of subway stations. It reminded some of my travel companions of New York's Manhattan.
Some of the buildings are a little 'offbeat'.
Checkpoint Charlie, where Berlin's former border between East and West used to be, has turned into a tourist attraction today.
There are a few shopping centers too, in this district.
Lastly, there also is an historical part in the district. This is Gendarmenmarkt, where the French Dome and the German Dome are both situated on different ends of a square.
Kufürstendamm, perhaps one of Berlin's best known shopping streets.
The Gedächteniskirche (Church of Remembrance) is a church that was bombed during WWII.
The church has not been fixed, because the damage done to the church in the war would remind us today of the horrors of that war.
The Fernsehturn (TV - tower), a landmark built by the Soviets.
Fernsehturn and the "Rotes Rathaus" (Berlin's city hall), to the right.
The Holocaust Memorial. Wasn't there when I visited the city 3 years ago.
The Nikolaiviertel, which is the old district of Berlin, with buildings dating back to the 1200s.
I ran into this store... I wonder what that 'urban milkware' is?
That's it for now!
Cheers!
Flying into the city
View from the hotel
Potsdamer Platz' skyscrapers and the Fernsehturn in the distance.
A shopping street in the west of Berlin, the 'Wilmersdorfer Strasse', where our hotel was located aswell.
The Dome of Berlin, located on the museum island.
Small details of the Dome.
The 'Altes Museum', also located on the museum island.
The Pergamon Museum, Germany's equivalent of London's British Museum or Paris' Louvre.
Humbolt University
The faculty of Law
Statue of Humbolt.
The beginning of Unter den Linden, the Champs Elysées of Berlin
At the end of Unter den Linden, the Brandenburger Gate shows up
The French Embassy, near the Gate.
The Reichstag, where the German parliament holds it's daily debates.
There was no shortage of tourists, too
The Spree river, between the new central station and the Reichstag.
This is sort of a beach, except that you can't swim in the river, you can sit in beachchairs and enjoy the weather. It's called 'Capital Beach', referring to the fact that Berlin is Germany's capital (again since the East and West were reunited).
Stadtmitte is a dense neighbourhood in the center of Berlin. It has a grid pattern, broad avenues and plenty of subway stations. It reminded some of my travel companions of New York's Manhattan.
Some of the buildings are a little 'offbeat'.
Checkpoint Charlie, where Berlin's former border between East and West used to be, has turned into a tourist attraction today.
There are a few shopping centers too, in this district.
Lastly, there also is an historical part in the district. This is Gendarmenmarkt, where the French Dome and the German Dome are both situated on different ends of a square.
Kufürstendamm, perhaps one of Berlin's best known shopping streets.
The Gedächteniskirche (Church of Remembrance) is a church that was bombed during WWII.
The church has not been fixed, because the damage done to the church in the war would remind us today of the horrors of that war.
The Fernsehturn (TV - tower), a landmark built by the Soviets.
Fernsehturn and the "Rotes Rathaus" (Berlin's city hall), to the right.
The Holocaust Memorial. Wasn't there when I visited the city 3 years ago.
The Nikolaiviertel, which is the old district of Berlin, with buildings dating back to the 1200s.
I ran into this store... I wonder what that 'urban milkware' is?
That's it for now!
Cheers!
(embarassment at my ignorance). What an impressive structure!
