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	Berlin - the capital of Germany


	On Saturday, at first we headed for Potsdamerplatz, where the new overwhelming buildings with unique architecture exemplify Berlin’s extraordinary development after the Wall, which had devided this square to the East and the West for 28 years, came down in 1989... We took the fastest lift in Europe to get to the “Panoramapunkt Berlin”, a fantastic viewing


	point at the height of 100 m, produced by DaimlerChrysler.



	Sony Centre, the most significant feature of Potsdamerplatz, is a giant ensemble dominated by glass and steel and attracts many tourists everyday. It consists of seven individual buildings including apartments, offices, cinemas, restaurants, and the Sony European Headquarters.




	The office floors in the amazing glass tower block. You could really see through inside from the observatory...!


	After enjoying the spectacular panorama view of Berlin, we took a nice long walk visiting some famous sights such as Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate, Busdeskanzleramt etc. On the way we passed through the new Holocaust Memorial, which has been inaugurated this


	year after years of controversy. The memorial to the millions of Jews killed in the Holocaust consists of 2,711 charcoal-coloured stone blocks and also includes a subterranean information centre.

The weather became chilly and rainy next day, so we decided for an easy Sunday just visiting a few museums. By the time we passed by the building of Jewisch Museum, a masterpiece of architecture designed by Daniel Libeskind, which has become a landmark in Berlin, we were fully aware of the peculiar design of the pedestrian traffic lights in the former East Berlin, originally installed by its communist authority during the Cold War. We heard that East Germans strongly resisted the idea of replacing their traffic lights with the much less


	interesting West German ones, when Germany became reunified. As a result, this humorous little man (the “Ampelmaennchen”) of the traffic lights has become a symbol of East Berlin, who is now so popular that he is featured on lots of tourists’ items and souvenirs...!



	It has been 15 years since the Berlin Wall came down. However, as long as you are in Berlin, the striking reminders will never let you forget about it for a long time. Apart from a few places where genuine piece

	of the original wall is kept undestroyed, there is a cobbled

		line marked on the street wherever the wall was rising from 1961 to 1989 utterly deviding the two worlds. At the “Mauermuseum”, you can also discover true stories of terror experienced by the ordinary people and devided families, when the communist regime started to build up the wall...

< Place to provoke thoughts > Memorial to those who were killed by the communist authority while desperately attempting to escape to the West, at the Berlin Wall or other parts of the former border between the West and the East. It makes you feel very upset to see that some of them had to be killed even shortly before the Berlin Wall actually collapsed...


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Berlin - the capital of Germany