| Berlin's Districts |
| Berlin is four times the size of Paris, and even though the city consolidated its 23 districts into 12 in 2001, you?re still left with 23 areas (Kiez) in which Berliners often find everything they need. Public transportation is far-reaching and effective, though, ... |
|
|
| Berlin Hauptbahnhof Station |
Berlin's gleaming new focal point is the massive Hauptbahnhof main station, located just north of the Reichstag and government buildings.
After an 8-year construction period (and just 5 years behind schedule) the station recently opened, permitting the main east-west ... |
|
|
| Berlin's Museums |
Berlin is a fantastic city for museum lovers, and it's getting better every year.
The legacy of a collection-crazy elite in the 18th and 19th centuries combined with the Cold War subsidies to establish impressive museums in both East and West Berlin has ... |
|
|
|
| Mitte in the middle |
| The historic centre of Berlin, Mitte kept its name even when the city?s division made it East Berlin?s western frontier, ending at the Brandenburg Gate. On and off the boulevard Unter den Linden, Mitte represents grand and royal Berlin but equally Mitte is ... |
|
|
| Prenzlauer Berg |
| Broad sidewalk cafes, Berlin?s oldest beer garden and the boutiques between restaurants and bars make the former working class district of Prenzlauer Berg, or Prenzl?berg, a great place to people-watch. It?s one of the most desirable places to live among artsy singles and ... |
|
|
| Charlottenburg |
| This western district of Berlin, both the beautiful whitewashed mansions and the brassy advertising signs that sometimes mar their facades, has had its pride a bit bruised since the fall of the Wall. When a united Berlin extended eastward in 1990 so did ... |
|
|
| Courtyards |
| Berlin was once the most industrialised city in Europe, and street side buildings were just a front for warrens of workshops and living quarters behind them. Within the interior courtyards, ground floor factory workers and apartment dwellers on the four to six floors ... |
|
|
| Cold War Berlin |
| If families in Washington and Moscow felt threatened by the Cold War ? and by the missiles that could cover the 7,841km between them in the time Carl Lewis could win an Olympic sprint ? imagine how Berliners must have felt on the ... |
|
|
| The Wall's Fall |
| In a single evening fifteen years ago, East Berliners stunned the world?s political theorists, historians, and themselves. By the thousands, they poured into West Berlin through six border crossings in the Berlin Wall, past East German guards who for the past 28 years ... |
|
|
