Berlin attractions on the map
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Highlights include Alexanderplatz, Berlin Zoological Garden, Charlottenburg Palace, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Fernsehturm Berlin, Gendarmenmarkt.
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125 of 125- Berlin Cathedral: story on the “Unter den Linden and Museum Island” route
This ceremonial church explains why a solemn ceremony did not yet mean that the Protestant churches had been brought under control.
- Berlin State Opera: story on the “Unter den Linden and Museum Island” route
The golden inscription above the columns preserves the trace of two conflicts between the conductor and political control over the theater.
- Brandenburg Gate: story on the “Central Berlin: Power, Memory and the Border” route
This point shows how the fate of a war trophy changed the meaning of a familiar city symbol.
- Chapel of Reconciliation: story on the “The Berlin Wall on Bernauer Straße” route
Here, bricks from the destroyed church will end up inside a new building erected by the returned congregation.
- Checkpoint Charlie: story on the “Central Berlin: Power, Memory and the Border” route
The finale will show how a document check brought two nuclear powers to a direct confrontation.
- Documentation Center and Viewing Platform: story on the “The Berlin Wall on Bernauer Straße” route
From above, for the first time you will see not an isolated wall, but the entire sequence of border obstacles.
- Humboldt University of Berlin: story on the “Unter den Linden and Museum Island” route
Here, the difference between the idea of independent learning and knowledge brought out to the city public will become clear.
- Markthalle Neun: story on the “From the Berlin Wall to the Landwehr Canal” route
The market hall offers an example of how neighbors intervened in the sale of municipal real estate.
- Neue Wache: story on the “Unter den Linden and Museum Island” route
The guardhouse portico will explain why the confrontation between the crowd and the soldiers took place here.
- Oberbaum Bridge: story on the “From the Berlin Wall to the Landwehr Canal” route
This stop shows how the border turned an ordinary rescue at the riverbank into negotiations between two sides of the city.
- Visitor Center of the Berlin Wall Memorial: story on the “The Berlin Wall on Bernauer Straße” route
Here it becomes clear why the outdoor exhibition begins with an authentic section of the wall that was nearly dismantled.
- Window of Remembrance: story on the “The Berlin Wall on Bernauer Straße” route
One personal fate will show how a person could disappear first from the city and then from official memory.
- Landwehr Canal and Admiralbrücke: story on the “From the Berlin Wall to the Landwehr Canal” route
The finale will link the bridge’s engineering calculations to the way its broad roadway is used today.
- Nordbahnhof: story on the “The Berlin Wall on Bernauer Straße” route
The underground station will show that the border blocked not only streets, but also operating railway tunnels.
- Oranienstraße and SO36: story on the “From the Berlin Wall to the Landwehr Canal” route
The club door will show how the community defended its own rules within a popular party.