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CITY BREAKS IN BERLIN
BERLIN HOTEL AND
CITY BREAK INFORMATION
Travel to Berlin
and find a truly vibrant city. After the
opening of the dividing wall, Berlin has
reclaimed its position as Germany's premier
city with a rich cultural background
including three opera houses, eight symphony
orchestras and more than 150 sites for
drama, a thriving nightlife and dazzling new
architecture incorporating many
Berlin hotels.
Potsdamer Platz is again part of Berlin�s
thriving centre � in the 1930s it was the
busiest square in Europe and is now, once
again full of shops, restaurants, bars and
entertainment venues. For the best views
visit the Panorama-Point, at the top of the
Kollhof building. The Sony Centre, with its
piazza covered by a futuristic sail-like
roof has on the ground floor, the Filmmuseum
Berlin, which recalls the early days of
cinema.
The Reichstag, which was built at the end of
the 19th century, was damaged in the fire of
1933, and has now been renovated with a |
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new dome.
Much of the Berlin Wall was lost to enthusiastic
revellers and souvenir hunters and then more
significantly to developers; only a few sections
remain. The East Side Gallery with inspiring
artwork, the Gedenkst�tte Berliner Mauer is a
graffiti-free stretch of the Wall that has been
preserved by the authorities.
If you want to experience the sense of history on
your
Berlin weekend, the
best place to get a sense of what the divided city
was like is the Mauermuseum Haus am Checkpoint
Charlie, located next to the site where the famous
border-crossing stood. A number of exhibitions show
the history of the Wall and place it into context,
as well as record the famous paintings on the
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One of Berlin's most recognisable landmarks,
the Brandenburg Gate, stands at the western
end of Pariser Platz. Stretching eastwards
from here is Unter den Linden, along which
some of the city�s richest cultural
treasures lie.
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SHOPPING
The
Kurf�rstendamm is the place to shop in
Berlin: an elegant boulevard of shops and
department stores that has designer
boutiques and shopping passages down its
side streets, particularly around the U-Bahn
Uhlandstrasse station.
The Europa-Center has a large revolving
Mercedes Benz symbol on its roof. The
Kaufhaus des Westens or KaDeWe is the
largest department store in Europe.
In the East are the boutiques in the
Hackesche H�fe and the many galleries in the
Scheunenviertel, just to the north.
Other areas worth exploring are around
Rosenhote, Alte |
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Schonhaustrasse and Neue Schonhaustrasse.
The most elegant shops in historic Berlin (Mitte)
are springing up along Friedrichstrasse,
including the French Galeries Lafayette
department store.
Nearby, Unter den Linden has a few
boutiques, including a Meissen ceramic
showroom, and souvenir shops. Smaller
clothing and specialty stores populate the
old district, Nikolaiviertel. The area
between Hackescher Markt, Rosentaler Platz,
and Weinmeister Strasse alternates
independent designers with groovy
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NIGHTLIFE
Berlin
is one of Europes most dynamic and energetic
party cities. If you
travel to Berlin
you will find more going on than in any
other city in Germany. The performing arts
scene is packed with opera, dance,
classical-music concerts, and theatre
performances every night of the week.
Berlin's nightlife is legendary, with
hundreds of bars, clubs, and cabarets
appealing to every taste. The old divides
are still there when it comes to nightlife
and the Western side hangs behind the real
action in the resurgent East.
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style bars are in Kreuzberg, Mitte,
Prenzlauer Berg and increasingly
Friedrichshain. Mitte is the better
area starting around the Hackesche H�fe and
working up Oranienburger Strasse past the
numerous bars.
Berlin is famous for its cabarets and
variety shows. There are also a number of
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INFORMATION
Language: German
Currency: Euro
Airports: Schoenfeld or Tegal |
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