Berlin Travel Guide

This is one of Europe's most exciting cities and the unified Germany's capital, crammed with opera house, theatres, art galleries, museums and vibrant nightclubs, as well as some of the world's most famous landmarks such as the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag, Checkpoint Charlie and Unter den Linden Boulevard.

City full of life that breathes powerfully despite the many vicissitudes of time that has been exposed in its long history. Since it was founded as a fishing village until its conversion into headquarters of the Prussian court, has always been obligatory reference in the history of Europe. During the Second World War the city was destroyed almost completely, and remained divided into two zones. The allies took the west, traditional neighborhoods of bars, shops and hotels, while the Soviets took the eastern part, where there are neighborhoods in the former imperial city now and after unification, Berlin became the capital of Germany in their own right. Its spectacular growth returns to a place as one of major world cities.

The cultural diversity of Berlin has a great tradition (some for the New York Europe), which includes the formidable heritage exhibited in the Museum Island, the Cultural Forum, or the collections gathered in the neighborhood of Dahlem, all samples of world cultural category. The three opera houses, the celebrated Philharmonic Orchestra and the many theaters, auditoriums and libraries determine the reputation of the city as cultural capital of Europe. Besides Berlin exerts a strong attraction between novice artists from around the world, many of which are set in the German capital with their proposals and enrich the creative, dynamic and avant-garde art scene in Berlin.

Berlin has hundreds of sites to see and visit. Among these selections of essentials are:
The avenue Karl Marx - Karl Marx Allee, now known as Marx or Karl-Marx-Allee is a long-style boulevard that leads to Moscow Piazza Alexanderplatz. An avenue full of buildings pachyderm reminiscent of the times separated by the Berlin Wall.

Berlin Backyards and the District of Spandau: The neighborhood is a neighborhood of Spandau in Berlin at the present fashion in the early 1900s were built here several buildings in the modernist style in which families with money were living, while the less favored people were living in the suburbs.

The gendarmes of the square is very beautiful because of its buildings in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in two of its extremes you see two churches almost twins, one French and one German, in the center is the Schauspielhaus Auditorium.