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Berlin is best known for its historical associations as the German capital, for its lively nightlife, for its many cafes, clubs, and bars, and for its numerous museums, palaces, and other sites of historic interest.
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ALEXANDERPLATZ
Alexanderplatz is a large open square and public transport hub in central Berlin, near the Spree river and the Berliner Dom. Berliners often call it simply Alex. Originally a cattle market, it was named in honour of a visit of the Russian Emperor Alexander I to Berlin in 1805. It gained a prominent role in the late 19th century ...
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BERLINER DOM
Berlin Cathedral (German: Berliner Dom) is the colloquial name for the Evangelical Oberpfarr- und Domkirche in Berlin, Germany. Its present building is located on Museum Island in the Mitte borough. The Berlin Cathedral had never been a cathedral in the actual sense of that term since it has never been the seat of a bishop ...
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BERLIN WALL
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area later known as the death strip ...
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BRANDENBURG GATE
The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) is a former city gate and one of the main symbols of Berlin and Germany. It is located west of the city center at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. It is the only remaining gate of a series through which Berlin was once entered ...
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EGYPTIAN MUSEUM
The Egyptian Museum of Berlin is home to one of the world's most important collections of Ancient Egyptian artefacts. The museum originated with the royal art collection of the Prussian kings: it was Alexander von Humboldt who recommended that an Egyptian section be created, and the first objects were brought to Berlin ...
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HUMBOLDT MUSEUM
The Museum fur Naturkunde (in English, the Museum of Natural History), widely known as the Humboldt Museum of Berlin, is the first national museum in the world, with a massive collection of more than 25 million zoological, paleontological, and minerological specimens, including more than ten thousand type specimens ...
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MUSEUM ISLAND
Museum Island in Berlin, is the name of the northern half of an island in the Spree river, in the center of the city. The museums on the island are some of the most important in the world. The island received its name for several internationally renowned museums that are now occupying all of the island's northern half ...
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PERGAMON MUSEUM
The Pergamon Museum is one of the museums on the Museum Island in Berlin. It was planned by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann and was built over a period from 1910 to 1930. It houses original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as the Pergamon Altar, the Market Gate of Miletus, and the Ishtar Gate ...
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POTSDAMER PLATZ
Potsdamer Platz is an important square and traffic intersection in central Berlin. It is named after the nearby city of Potsdam. In the 1920s and '30s, it was one of the busiest traffic centers in all of Europe. Its heyday was in the 1920s, when with the Alexanderplatz it was at the heart of Berlin's nightlife ...
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ROTES RATHAUS
The Red Town Hall (Rotes Rathaus) on Rathausstrasse in the borough of Mitte, is the town hall of Berlin. It is the home to the governing mayor and the government of the state of Berlin. The name of the landmark building dates from the facade design with red clinker bricks. The Rathaus was built between 1861 and 1869 in the style of the north Italian High Renaissance ...
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