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Compared with other cities in Germany, Berlin seems to
be another kind. Visitors to Berlin, the most intense feelings, not the hustle
and bustle of modern metropolis, nor is thousands of years of ancient ruins,
but only just gone shortly history, the remnants of this history, still exist.
Although there are relatively old buildings and community in Berlin, but
Berlin's most vivid is showing modern history and contemporary history in
Germany, from the war madness, after the trauma of war, to trying to heal the
pain of war. Such a landscape, perhaps not romantic enough, there are deep
forces move people's hearts. This is a story of the city, we need to taste it
carefully.
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Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor), as the
only preserved city gate in Berlin, it has witnessed many important historical
events. Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor), it is 26 meters high,
65.5 meters wide and 11 meters deep, it is a neo-classical sandstone buildings.
It was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and
built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791, to commemorate Prussian
victories achieved in the Seven Years' War.
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It is not only the symbol of Berlin, was once the
dividing line between East and West Germany, now Germany's flag.
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Victory Column (German: Siegessäule), which is to
commemorate the Prussian unification of Germany to win the war, built in 1873.
The 285 steps and on top of the column is shining golden light of the goddess
Victoria.
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Potsdamer Platz (German: Pɔtsdamɐ Plats), which was
once the largest pan-European traffic crossroads, after World War II were
destroyed and turned into a scorched earth square, it is only the remainder of
the Berlin Wall in the center of the intersection. Now rebuilt Potsdamer Platz
(German: Pɔtsdamɐ Plats), is not only a well-known landscape, it is the latest
comprehensive business center in Berlin.
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22-storey Debis-Haus designed by Renzo Piano, its huge
hall with a wide positive Jean Tinguely's machine sculpture
"Meta-Maxi".
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Berlin
Philharmonic Hall (German: Berliner Philharmoniker), it is the home of the
German orchestra was founded in 1882. It is the world's leading Berlin
Philharmonic music hall, a modern architect Hans Scharoun's representative
works. There are different bands perform every day, and now it has become one
of the world music shrines symphony orchestra and symphony lovers.
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The Berlin
U-Bahn (German: Berliner U-Bahn) (referred Untergrund Bahn, meaning
"underground railway") is a public transport system in Berlin,
capital of Germany, and an important part of the city's high-speed railway.
Opened in 1902, the U-Bahn serves 170 stations across ten lines, with 151.7
kilometers (94.3 miles), of which about 80% of the total track length is
underground.
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Oberbaum
Bridge (German: Oberbaumbrücke), or translated: tree bridge, is a double-bridge
on the river Spree in Berlin. With more than 500 kinds of different tiles
transformation, once the longest in Berlin Oberbaum Bridge, its total length:
407 ', the bridge high: 92', building in 1894-1896, architect Santiago
Calatrava, It is a deck arch bridge. It connects Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg
districts of Berlin Wall used to be divided. Berlin U-Bahn line U1, from
Berlin's east train station (German: Ostbahnhof) departure, passing Oberbaum
Bridge (German: Oberbaumbrücke), it is one of Berlin's landscape.
The bridge
appears prominently in the 1998 film Run Lola Run.
