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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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Berlin Blast

23/05/2019 1 Comment

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Saturday NoonSong

29/03/2019 No Comments

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Tag: City Sights

Cool Summer Culture

02/08/2022 1 Comment City Centre Sights Cool Collections History and Politics City Sights

When the temperature rises, it’s good to escape the crowds and get out of the city centre. In Berlin, there’s a host of cool culture ...

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Berlin Global

14/12/2021 No Comments Cool Collections City Sights

“Only Connect” “Only connect and both shall be exalted” is the essence of the Humboldt Forum. When E.M.Forster famously used these words he was linking ...

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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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Berlin’s Green Heart

02/09/2019 No Comments City Centre Sights Cafés

The Tiergarten is a splendid park. Spread before the Brandenburg Gate, for Berliners it has long been synonymous with both pleasure and leisure...

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Berlin Zoo

20/11/2018 No Comments Café Society City Centre Sights History and Politics City Sights

Berlin Zoo is the oldest zoo in Germany, with a unique history. It is also the most species-rich in the world and the most-visited zoo in Europe. The ...

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Romantic Art and Wanderlust

18/07/2018 1 Comment City Centre Sights Cool Collections Art

Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie is an exquitiste three-storey showcase of 19th Century European art. It is also one of the German capital’s iconic buildings and part of ...

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The Real Thing

07/02/2018 No Comments City Centre Sights Cool Collections History and Politics Art

Berlin has an incredible 175 museums to choose from.‘20 Berlin Museums That Will Blow Your Mind’, a list recently compiled by the website Hostelworld, is a ...

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Fontane’s Berlin

02/01/2018 3 Comments Books about Berlin City Centre Sights History and Politics Books

The emergence of Prussia as the dominant power in the new nation of Germany had a profound effect on 20th Century Europe. This first blog of ...

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Checkpoint Charlie Then and Now

28/11/2017 No Comments City Centre Sights History and Politics City Sights

What’s in a name? In the case of Checkpoint Charlie, with its personification of a notorious border crossing at the Berlin Wall, it immediately conjures ...

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The Berlin Wall Revisited

09/11/2017 No Comments City Centre Sights History and Politics City Sights

The Berlin Wall Revisited – Today, 9th November 2017, is the 28th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Berlin has now been reunited ...

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