Berlin

This was my first visit to Berlin (save for nine hours in 1983 when I was tied to a suitcase, and I could not come far from Berlin Ostbahnhof). I will have to admit that I did not find Berlin as startling as Paris or London. Since Berlin was severely damaged in WWII, there is less of beautiful buildings. At the same time, many of the important sites are related to horrors during the Nazi era and the division of the city during the Cold War. Not the least the latter has resulted in a very unique character of the city, since the area where the Wall stood has been the venue of city development. After all, the Wall ran right through the centre of Berlin.

The Local Neighbourhood 1. House on Alt Moabit	2. Crossing Spree
Around Brandenburger Tor 3. Spree Again	4. Brandenburger Tor
5. Reichstag	6. Berliner Mauer
7. Straße des 17 Juni	Unter den Linden 8. House on Unter den Linden
9. Fredrick the Great	10. Trabant
11. Berliner Dom	12. Alte Nationalgalerie
13. Church and TV Tower	14. Rotes Rathaus
Fernsehturm 15. TV Tower	16. Rotes Rathaus Again
17. Alexa Shopping Centre	18. Brandenburger Tor etc
City West 19. Tauentzienstraße	20. Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirsche
21. Nave in Gedächtniskirsche	22. Tiergarten
Siegessäule 23. Victory Column	24. Mosaic
25. View East	26. View West
27. View Potsdammer Platz	Potsdammer Platz 28. Potsdammer Platz
29. Shopping Mall Watchtower	30. Spaced Out
31. Fat Lady with Double Bass	32. Fat Cycling Lady
33. Contrasts	The Topography of Terror 34. The Topography of Terror
35. Brandenburger Tor around 1930	36. Birthday
The Holocaust Memorials 37. The Jewish Memorial I	38. The Jewish Memorial II
39. The Gypsy Memorial	40. The Gay Memorial I
41. The Gay Memorial II	Prenzlauer Berg 42. Kollwitzstraße
43. Wasserturm	East-Side Gallery 44. Oberbaumbrücke
45. Hoş Geldiniz	46. Backside View
47. Frontside View	48. Weltmeister!
49. Curriculum Vitae	50. Escape
51. Deadly Kiss	Street Scenes 52. Häckscher Markt
53. Splendid Hotel	54. Mirror Image
55. Opposite Side	Berlin Wall Memorial 56. Berlin Wall Memorial
57. Wall Model	58. No Man's Land
59. Ackerstraße 1961	60. Modern Houses
Along the Spree 61. City Library	62. Spreeufer - Propstraße
63. House on Am Kupfergraben	64. Friedrichstraße
65. Government Buildings	Reichstag 66. Paul-Löbe-Haus
67. Reichstag	68. Memorial Disks
69. Bundestag	70. German Eagle
71. The Cupola	72. Tower with the EU Flag
The End 73. Modern Buildings