Articles with tag: berlin wall

Checkpoint Charlie used to be a checkpoint for the Allies, from 1961 to 1990. This was the only place to cross the border between West and East  Berlin for family members of alliance forces and foreigners. Photos of the Soviet and the American soldiers, erected in 1998, act as a reminder of...

I arrived in  Berlin  in the morning, a day before the opening of the exhibition, and ran around some familiar  sights in Berlin : the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate, the Ku'damm; rode the elevator inside a huge aquarium, located in the foyer of the Radisson Hotel...

I asked my friends to walk with me around  Berlin . Last year we visited the  abandoned Berlin station , looked at the wall paintings in Tacheles and went to the Berlin flea market. This time we decided to just walk around the center to look at places we'd already...

Honorable burghers buy things not only in the fashionable KaDeWe, they also do not disdain to purchase household items at  Berlin  flea market. We had a walk around one of them... Pieces of the  Berlin Wall . I am curious, how can one determine their authenticity? ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, many East Berliners from Oranienburger Strasse  went to live with their rich relatives in West Germany, and several buildings on this street became abandoned. Taking advantage of the chaos,  Berlin  artists captured and turned one of...