I collected a small guide of the 8 best places to visit in Berlin. You can research the locations on the Internet before your trip and become familiar with the environments before “dive” in the German climate. Bon voyage!
1. Potsdamer Platz
http://potsdamerplatz.de/en/
This is a modern space built between the ancient stones of Berlin.
There are a multitude of shops and there are the [...] Continue Reading…
Anyone who knows any 20th century history knows the plight of many European ethnic groups, and none is more documented than the plight of the Jews murdered during the WW2 holocaust. In order to remember this history, the ‘Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe’ was built between 2003 and 2005 in the center of Berlin, and [...] Continue Reading…
With the return of cold days, more and more events take place in the most interesting cultural institutions in Berlin. An absolute must-visit during your trip to the German capital is the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
In addition to the exceptional restaurant-bar on the verge of the Spree and its interiors and lighting that make you feel welcomed [...] Continue Reading…
During the FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS, artists and designers transform the German capital in an unique work of art for almost two weeks.
The FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS is one of the greatest illumination festivals in the world. Every year, for twelve days in October, the Berlin’s world famous landmarks and monuments are spotted by exceptional lights and colours.
National and international specialists, technicians and lighting [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin is well established as an art capital. Every year, waves of artists are coming here attracted by both the low cost of living and the fertile cultural climate. Tourists and visitors line up to spend some days in districts like Kreuzberg, Mitte or Prenzlauer Berg, in Wohnungs (or apartments) surrounded by beautiful Kaffees. First-time visitors are [...] Continue Reading…
Foto recieved from OTA-Blog reader Bernard M. from the UK who wrote -
Saw this ‘Death to Swabians’ graffiti at Kollwitzplatz in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg last week.
It is a joke – and for Swabians from the south of Germany even funnier!
It is like reading ‘Down with Alaskans’ in New York …………or ‘Death to the Scots’ in London!
However it was written in chalk – [...] Continue Reading…
Pull up those PIGS!
Blog reader Theo sent in this picture on the Auguststraße in Berlin.
It is of a very large poster against the bank-bailout which are presently being planned in the EU and satirizing the present state of affairs – Merkel and Sarkozy pulling the strings.
These so-called PIIGS countries are the scapegoat, or have become the sacrificial lamb in the recent international financial crisis. [...] Continue Reading…
In Berlin, and probably elsewhere, when you hear an airplane you instinctively look up at it.
Sometimes when it is an old clunker it is probably the old JU 52/Ju 54 – the Junkers airplane which flies from Schoenefeld airport and flies tourists for a 15min Berlin tour. http://www.ju52rundflug.de/
Aerial advertising is another matter altogether – and while they are known along most of the [...] Continue Reading…
One of the oddest and possibly coolest functional city street additions in Berlin would have to be, in my opinion, the Photoautomat booths that are dotted around the more crazy places in the city, but mainly around the more going out areas in Kreuzberg, F’Hain and P’Berg… And to be perfectly honest, you’ll really notice these once [...] Continue Reading…
On Show in Berlin til 31st October – Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Lady with an Ermine’ (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani – from Wikipedia -National Museum, Kraków
Thousands of art enthusiasts lined-up on Thursday outside Berlin’s Gemaldegalerie to see the portrait of ‘Cecilia Gallerani’ otherwise known as ‘Frau mit Hermelin’ or ‘Lady with an Ermine’ – which is just one [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin Dom – Berlin Cathedral foto from Wikipedia by Holger Weinandt; Bearbeitung: unify (Perspektive entzerrt)
The Berliner Dom (and the unfortunate Kaiser who had it built)
The Berliner Dom is certainly one of the most conspicuous buildings in Berlin. It is perhaps the most striking example of the massive building projects that the Hohenzollern family undertook in their attempts to turn Berlin [...] Continue Reading…
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