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ETAP
Anhalter Strasse 6
10963 BERLIN
GERMANY
Tel : (+49)030 257 67 70
Nocti Vagus
Blind and visually impaired waiters will seat you safely at your table, where you can stimulate all senses other than sight with the food and the live performances. Make reservations, mention if you're an English-speaker, and plan to spend at least two hours here.
(€28-45)
Address : Saarbrücker Str. 36, PB
Tel : 74 74 91 23
Website : www.noctivagus.de
Open daily :18:00-24:00
Kurfürstendamm ( horiz street west side of Berlin)
- All the shopping is on this street
- The KaDeWe large dept store is on there
- The Gedächtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church)
Left with the destroyed tower as a reminder of WWII
Address : Breitscheidpl, CB
Tel : 218 50 23
Website : www.gedaechtniskirche.com
Once the modern heart of a thriving metropolis, this urban centre was heavily damaged in the war, and suffered again when remaining buildings were pulled down to make way for the Wall's death strip. After years of construction in the mid-90s, skyscrapers have added a cosmopolitan and glassy edge to the city. The literal Potsdamer Platz is an intersection, and the east side of it, known as Leipziger Platz, is slowly building up in height as well. Potsdamer Platz’s most popular public space and architectural attraction is The Sony Center, with its huge atrium and tent-like roof. It’s best to view at night for its impressive lighting. The neighbouring DaimlerChrysler complex holds architecture by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, and the Arkaden shopping mall, with rather humdrum shops, but the best gelato café in the city.
Checkpoint Charlie – berlin wall museum
Address: Friedrichstraße 43-45 D-10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg
Open every day of the year from 9:00 until 22:00 h
East Side Gallery: Berlin Wall left standing
The Berlin Wall East Side Gallery is a 1.3km-long section of the wall near the center of Berlin. Approximately 106 paintings by artists from all over the world cover this memorial for freedom and make it the largest open air gallery in the world. Muehlenstrasse, Berlin 14059, Germany
Address: Friedrichstraße 43-45 D-10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg
Open every day of the year from 9:00 until 22:00 h
East Side Gallery: Berlin Wall left standing
The Berlin Wall East Side Gallery is a 1.3km-long section of the wall near the center of Berlin. Approximately 106 paintings by artists from all over the world cover this memorial for freedom and make it the largest open air gallery in the world. Muehlenstrasse, Berlin 14059, Germany
Pergamon Museum – has original Babylonian facades and stairs
SMPK - Museum Island. With 850,000 visitors a year, the Pergamon is Berlin's prime museum. Hardly surprising, given its three outstanding collections under one roof: the Antiquity Collection, the Museum of the Near East and the Museum of Islamic Art.
Address: Am Kupfergraben 5
10117 Berlin-Mitte
Holocaust Memorial
Between 1695 and 1699, the Elector of Brandenburg, Frederick III, who in 1701 became the first Prussian King. He built it as a summer residence dedicated to his wife, Sophie Charlotte
The name together with its monumental size make most people associate Germany's neoclassical parliamentary building with the Nazis, but Hitler and his party have little history here. After hosting parliamentary sessions since 1894, one month after Hitler was appointed chancellor in January 1933, it was set on fire by Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe. In the years during which it abutted the Wall as a conference centre, West Berliners played football on its lawn, while later artist Christo famously wrapped it in cloth. It did not serve as parliament again until a reunited German government returned to Berlin in 1999. Renovated by Sir Norman Foster, this building is perhaps the most public federal building in the world through its glass-dome tourist attraction. On the rooftop, photographs documenting the building's history circle the rim above the parliament chamber. Two ramps spiral up the side of the dome, an engineering feat even more fascinating than the panoramic view from the top. Avoid long queues by arriving early or late, or by booking at the Dachgarten restaurant. Admission free.
Address : Platz der Republik 1, TG
Tel : 22 73 21 52
Website : www.bundestag.de/htdocs_e/info/visit/vberl.html
Berlin's landmark building is one of 14 gates completed in 1792 by Carl Langhans. Nike, the goddess of victory, drives the chariot atop the gate, and German armies used to begin their parades here. The proud gate opens onto Pariser Platz, and it may as well have been built by the communists, so linked in people’s minds is it to the double-wall system that essentially bricked it in. Fascists spoiled the gate as well by staging their torch-lit parades through it. Berliners celebrated the Wall’s fall in 1989 by standing on it in front of the gate.
Address : Pariser Pl, MI
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Koln (Cologne)
The Kolner Dom (Cologne Cathedral) is the biggest cathedral you’ll ever see in your life, beautiful at night, we climbed to the top. Built in the 1200s
south of the cathedral in the Theo Burauen Platz is a picturesque courtyard, where we got a good breakfast buffet, middle of the west-facing buildings.
Birthplace of eau de cologne
http://www.farina1709.com/
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Latin quarter
Eiffel Tower
Le Sari (indian food by the hotel)
Etap La Villette (meet up with Mary Ellis)
Catacombes
La Mercerie bar
Meeting with UC Berkeley team at Rue du Faubourg St.-Antoine
Centre Pompidou
Sacré Coeur
Le Truskel bar
Victoria Station train car restaurant
