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Temples of Drama and Music

21/02/2020 3 Comments

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The Fantastic Futurium

21/10/2019 No Comments

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Berlin’s Green Heart

02/09/2019 No Comments

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City Centre Sights

Making a Grand Entrance

19/07/2019 1 Comment

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Café Society

Berlin Blast

23/05/2019 1 Comment

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Saturday NoonSong

29/03/2019 No Comments

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Tag: Architecture

An Enchanted Castle

07/11/2022 2 Comments Cool Collections The Outer Edges Architecture

Schloss Biesdorf, a fabulous Italianate-style villa with beautiful parkland, is my latest Berlin discovery. Rather like Sleeping Beauty’s fairytale castle, it has been restored to ...

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The Art of Society

27/01/2022 3 Comments Cool Collections Architecture

Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie is back after almost six years of reconstruction. I can’t imagine a more fitting exhibition space for 20th Century visual arts. With ...

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The Humboldt Forum – a Palace for all Peoples

06/11/2021 1 Comment City Centre Sights Cool Collections Architecture

The Berlin Palace (Stadtschloss) is back in Berlin, a least in part. The opening ceremony took place on 20th July 2021 and the golden cross ...

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Saturday NoonSong

29/03/2019 No Comments Café Society Entertainment Music Architecture

Berlin loves Saturday lunchtime – there’s a sense that the weekend starts here. It wasn’t so long ago that the German school week didn’t finish ...

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History set in stone

01/08/2016 2 Comments Cool Collections History and Politics Architecture

I hope that last week’s blog about Spandau has encouraged you to visit this special part of Berlin. From now until the end of 2019, the wonderful Spandau Zitadelle ...

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Schlüter’s Beautiful Baroque Berlin

26/05/2014 No Comments Cool Collections Architecture

Andreas Schlüter (1684-1714) was the ‘ Schloss Baumeister’ (Palace Master-builder) who was largely responsible for transforming Berlin from a provincial medieval city into an impressive baroque ...

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‘Our Schadow’ and ‘Heavens, Berlin!’

11/05/2014 No Comments Cool Collections Architecture

There are currently two excellent exhibitions worth catching at the Ephraim-Palais until 17th August. For the princely sum of five euros you can feast your eyes on the ...

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