Berlin - Part three

[Ronald]

This is the last one of my 3 threads about Berlin.

Flying into the city

View from the hotel

Potsdamer Platz' skyscrapers and the Fernsehturn in the distance.

A shopping street in the west of Berlin, the 'Wilmersdorfer Strasse', where our hotel was located aswell.

The Dome of Berlin, located on the museum island.

Small details of the Dome.

The 'Altes Museum', also located on the museum island.

The Pergamon Museum, Germany's equivalent of London's British Museum or Paris' Louvre.

Humbolt University

The faculty of Law

Statue of Humbolt.

The beginning of Unter den Linden, the Champs Elys

[Ronald]

This is sort of a beach, except that you can't swim in the river, you can sit in beachchairs and enjoy the weather. It's called 'Capital Beach', referring to the fact that Berlin is Germany's capital (again since the East and West were reunited).

Stadtmitte is a dense neighbourhood in the center of Berlin. It has a grid pattern, broad avenues and plenty of subway stations. It reminded some of my travel companions of New York's Manhattan.

Some of the buildings are a little 'offbeat'.

Checkpoint Charlie, where Berlin's former border between East and West used to be, has turned into a tourist attraction today.

There are a few shopping centers too, in this district.

Lastly, there also is an historical part in the district. This is Gendarmenmarkt, where the French Dome and the German Dome are both situated on different ends of a square.

Kuf

[GRDadof3]

Great pictures again Ronald! That last one is the best yet.

[seicer]

I love modern European architecture.

Great photo set and notes!

[Unionstation13]

Berlin deserves better then that modern stuff,

I like the reconstructions they do, like that government building they plan to reconstruct, its beautiful.

[Rural King]

Great photo thread.