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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.

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 Gedenkstatte Berliner Mauer is a graffiti-free stretch of the Wall that has been preserved by the authorities.


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Shopping

The Kurfurstendamm 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 Hofe and the many galleries in the Scheunenviertel, just to the north.

Other areas worth exploring are around Rosenhote, Alte 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 second-hand shops.

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.

The 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 casinos and live music venues.

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