Museo
East Side Gallery
Spring 1990: brushes meet concrete. After decades as part of a border system, this stretch of Wall is becoming a kilometre-long public argument about freedom.
Perché vale la deviazione
A 1.3-kilometre open-air gallery painted on the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall. Its murals respond to the political upheavals of 1989 and 1990.
Che cosa c’è nei paraggi
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1.5 km
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Sometime before 2010, bass is already shaking this plain building beside Ostkreuz. The club has not officially opened; the illegal rave inside has simply beaten it to the punch.
2.6 km
Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park
Berlin, April 1945: the Battle of Berlin is underway. By its end in May, 80,000 Red Army soldiers will have fallen. Four years later, this park becomes East Germany’s central place of remembrance for the war.
3.0 km
Alexanderplatz
A traveler stops over a map; commuters stream around them. Look up and the nearby TV Tower gives away exactly where you are: Alexanderplatz, Berlin’s square that behaves more like a launch pad.
3.2 km
St. Mary’s Church
Berlin, 1243: an accusation of stolen wafers leads to the burning of Jewish people. It is the first known story attached to this church site—and its darkest.
3.5 km
Friedrichswerder Church
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Berlin’s Neoclassical star, switches architectural languages and gives the city its first Neo-Gothic church. Nearly two centuries later, construction next door forces the whole place to close.
3.6 km
Altes Museum
A Prussian king gives the order; Karl Friedrich Schinkel answers with a grand Neoclassical museum. The royal world moves on, but the building keeps its original job.
Percorrilo con le storie
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