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Berlin Landmarks to know about rich German Culture

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Berlin  landmarks can easily help a tourist to rich cultural heritage of Germany that is provided with assistance from tourist guides with capable translating skills in prominent world languages. Below is the list of some important places of tourist attraction in Berlin.

•    Brandenburg Gate: It is an ancient city gate and have reputation of being one of the most populist and famous symbols of Berlin and Germany. It is located west to the Berlin and Germany at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstrabe in proximity to Pariser Platz.  It is only survived gate that earlier was a route for entering into Berlin. A few yards away from the building is located, Reichstag building.  The building was commissioned by King Frederick William of Prussia as a sign of peace and was built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. The Gate was renovated in 2002.

•    Zoological Garden: It is one of the oldest and the best known zoo in Germany and was open from 1844 and is spread around in an area of about 35 hectares and is situated in Berlin’s Tiergarten. It presently has around 15,00 species containing around 16,000 animals in the Zoo. It shows the most comprehensive collection of animal species in the world. It is visited nearly by 3 million visitors each year.

•    New National Gallery: Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum is modern art museum for artifacts mainly by Germans. It is a part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The museum building and its sculpture gardens were designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and it opened to public in 1968. It showcases items of 20th century art specially as represented by themes and concepts like Cubism, Expressionism, the Bauhaus and Surrealism. It has many artistic master pieces of artists like Pablo Picasso, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky and Barnett Newman.

•    Victory Column: It is a monument erected in form of a column and is erected in memory of victory in a war. Its column stands on a base and gets dressed up with victory symbol in the form of a statue. This statue even represents the Victoria, in Germany, the female embodiment of the nation, Germania, in the United States.

•    Reichstag: It is a historic structure in Berlin, Germany, that is made to house Reichstag, parliament of the German Empire and became operational from 1894 and there parliamentary activities continued in the building till until 1933, when it was got badly damaged in a fire charged to be set by Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe. After the Second World War the building went out of service when parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany met in the Bundeshaus in Bonn. The full restoration of the building occurred only after the unification of Germany on October 3, 1990 by world famous architect Norman Foster. When it was completed in 1999, it became the meeting place of the modern German parliament, the Bundestag.

•    The Berlin Wall: This wall was constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) on 13 August 1961 and it completely disassociated if from West Germany. The reason for constructing this wall was called upon by Soviet-dominated Eastern Bloc to save it population from fascistic element that may hinder there way for constructing a Socialist State. The wall was called upon as “Anti Fascist Protection Wall”.  On November 9, 1989 after changed political scenario when East German government announced and allowed East German citizens to cross border and climb on the wall, this created an atmosphere of celebration between the both countries and joyous public chipped away parts of the wall and governments later on made use of industrial equipments to remove rest of the wall. The fall of Berlin Wall created path for German reunification that accomplished in simple manner on October 3, 1990.

•    German History Museum: The Deutsches Historisches Museum was founded in 1987 by the chancellor of Germany, Helmut Kohl and the mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen on event of the 750th anniversary of the founding of Berlin. It is situated in the Zeughaus, the oldest structure on the Unter den Linden Avenue in central Berlin.

•    Alexanderplatz: Alexanderplatz is a very big public square and transport hub in the Mitte (city centre) district of Berlin close to the river Spree and the Berliner Dom. Berliners often call it simply Alex.

•    Memorial Church: The Protestant Kaiser William Memorial Church is situated in Berlin on the Kurfürstendamm in the centre of the Breitscheidplatz. The original church site was constructed in the 1890s. The building was badly damaged in a bombing raid in 1943, but renovated in 1959 and 1963.

Other important landmarks of Berlin are Kurfürstendamm, Schloss Charlottenburg, Egyptian Museum, Museum Island, Pergamon Museum and Kaiser Wilhelm.