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Friedrichswerder

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    • Day 74

      Wandering Berlin

      November 16, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

      Strolling for the last time through the city, I sought out the memorial for the booking burning that took place on 10th May 1933.

      The Nazi German Student Association's Main Office for Press and Propaganda announced a nationwide initiative "against the un-German spirit", creating a literary blacklists that included Jewish, Marxist, Socialist, anti-family, and anti-German literature. It is estimated 20,000 books were burnt in the platz.

      The memorial includes a quote from a Heinrich Heine 1817 play that says “Where they burn books, they will also burn people”, one hundred years before the book burning in Bebelplatz.

      I needed Currywrust to help to bring me a little cheer 😋
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    • Day 3

      Reunited and Wall part one!

      August 16, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

      Thank goodness for technology and telecommunications! Group Warhammer let us know that they were up and moving, so we made our way via Rathaus and Alexanderplatz to the East Side shopping centre (wonderfully air-conditioned) where they were consuming frozen yoghurt. Lunch and more "Beat the Cox" followed (with some interestingly named variations causing a giggling fit), before we walked / hobbled to the River Spree and the East Side Gallery, home of the remaining section of the Berlin Wall. Spent a very hot and happy hour or more looking at all the art before returning to the lovely, open, café-filled square outside the Mercedes Benz arena for mocktails.Read more

    • Day 3

      Unter den Linden

      August 16, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

      Finally made it to the most grandiose strasse we've seen so far - we were at the Brandenburg gate end yesterday but didn't make it very far along. We also had to stop for spaghetti ice cream, another legacy of the CYO tour - loving the Angela Merkel artwork in the donut shop.Read more

    • Day 2

      Isola dei musei

      November 4, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

      Il nome "Isola dei musei" è dovuto al gran numero di musei di importanza internazionale che si trovano nell'area, tutti parte del gruppo dei Musei statali di Berlino, appartenenti alla Fondazione del patrimonio culturale prussiano (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz). Per l'immensa importanza culturale ed artistica, l'Isola dei musei è stata dichiarata dall'UNESCO patrimonio dell'umanità, nel 1999.Read more

    • Day 2

      Parks & Christmas Markets

      December 10, 2023 in Germany ⋅ 🌧 7 °C

      We've had a successful first 24 hours in Berlin!

      We spent most of the day walking around Berlin and enjoying the slightly rainy but not too cold day. After a light breakfast in the lounge we walked through Tier Garten and to the Soviet war memorial. After such a busy morning we decided to treat ourselves to a snack: currywurst and Berlin lager. A perfect pick me up.

      Refueled from our snack we headed towards the Christmas market, stopping by the Brandenburg Gate and the somber Jewish memorial. Doing so we crossed from West Berlin into East Berlin, the wall marked with a line of stones along the road and pieces of the wall found throughout the city.

      The Christmas market was picture perfect. Full of cheery people even in the rain, cute stalls of holiday decorations and places to pop in for a drink. We grabbed a cocktail to wait out some heavier rain, I had to drag Igor away from the festive drinks and potato offerings.

      The rest of our time at the market included a hat purchase for Igor and some sheeps wool mittens for me! And of course more food: oysters, sardines, and champagne.

      We wrapped up our visit with a cup of Gluhwein and a cute take home mug 🤗
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    • Day 2

      Babelplatz

      November 4, 2023 in Germany ⋅ 🌬 11 °C

      Chiamata, in origine, Opernplatz (Piazza dell'Opera), la piazza doveva essere il punto focale del Forum Fridericianum progettato da Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff. Il Forum doveva essere un'area con edifici in stile romano antico. Tale progetto fu realizzato però solo in parte. Qui il 10 maggio 1933 avvenne il rogo in cui i nazisti bruciarono circa 25.000 libri ritenuti "pericolosi". Questo evento, parte dei cosiddetti Bücherverbrennungen (in italiano, appunto, "roghi di libri"), è ricordato da un'opera di Micha Ullman, consistente in un pannello luminoso inserito sulla superficie della strada, che lascia intravedere una camera piena di scaffali vuoti. Accanto è posta una targa che riporta una citazione di Heinrich Heine:

      «Quando i libri vengono bruciati, alla fine verranno bruciate anche le persone»

      Nel 1947 cambiò nome e divenne Bebelplatz, dedicata al politico August Bebel. Sulla piazza si affacciano numerosi edifici storici della città: la Staatsoper Unter den Linden, l'Alte Bibliothek, la St-Hedwigs-Kathedrale; di fronte alla stessa, oltre il viale, si trovano la Statua equestre di Federico il Grande e la Humboldt Universität.

      Sulla Bebelplatz, da cui si vede il Ministero degli Esteri della Germania, si è tenuta per la seconda volta a Berlino la mostra degli United Buddy Bears 2006. La mostra consiste in oltre 140 sculture a forma di orso, ognuna alta 2 m e creata da un artista diverso. Queste statue colorate si tengono per mano l'una accanto all'altra, promuovendo così la tolleranza e la comprensione tra i popoli. Tutte insieme trasmettono un messaggio di convivenza pacifica tra tutte le culture e le religioni. La comunità ebraica di Berlino ha accolto con favore la mostra degli orsi in mezzo alla Bebelplatz.
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    • Day 3

      GDR Museum and Christmas Market

      December 19, 2019 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

      On our way to another Christmas market we visited a memorial to commemorate the futility and sorrow of war as well as the GDR museum to get a glimpse of what life was like living in the GDR (German Democratic Republic). The irony behind the name is breathtaking as the GDR had no democratic processes in place in any part of their political or societal decision making.

      One of the amazing things for me is the Christmas spirit and the amount of gluhwein being drunk at these markets. There is also an amazing array of different traditional German food which adds to the atmosphere from sweet bakery treats to smoked salmon and large BBQ’s cooking bratwurst sausages, steaks and burgers.
      Some of the food combinations are amazing for example large bowls of spinach with a bratwurst sausage plonked on top and potatoes filled with all sorts of toppings as well as gluhwein that has different spirits added to it like Cointreau and Vodka. Perhaps the highlight for me in the food stakes was a crepe that was cooked in front of me and topped with cinnamon sugar and the folded into four...so good to eat. The potato fritters were also especially good. The German diet is very largely biased toward carbohydrates and a meat protein of some description.
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    • Day 5

      Berlin TV Tower (cont’d)

      December 21, 2019 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 7 °C

      The tower allows people to observe the city of Berlin on a 360 degree basis and some of the photos depict the different angles of the city.
      Walking around Berlin really reminds me of how East Berlin would have looked under the GDR regime and some of the apartment blocks in a couple of the photos depict this.
      Interestingly, the city of Berlin has approximately 3.8 million citizens and yet gives the appearance of being vastly different in size to Melbourne.
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    • Day 2

      Bebelplatz

      December 18, 2019 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

      This square is notorious for being one of the locations where the academics faithful to the Nazi party burnt 20,000 books from any author that was dismissive of their ideals and doctrine.
      There is an amazing sculpture under glass in the middle of the square which depicts a series of book shelves that are all painted white and that would have held 20k books.
      The shelves are empty and painted white to symbolize the fact that this knowledge will never be replaced and that it is lost forever...it is a very powerful image and our tour guide informed us that a dutch philosopher 100 years earlier said that first you burn books and then you burn people and in the case of the holocaust this became a prophecy.
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    • Day 6

      Neues Museum

      September 19, 2023 in Germany ⋅ 🌬 21 °C

      Después de la destrucción de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el mayor deterioro de las ruinas durante la era de la RDA , David Chipperfield lo restauró de forma simplificada entre 1999 y 2009. Actualmente alberga el Museo Egipcio y la Colección de Papiros , el Museo de Prehistoria e Historia Antigua y parte de la Colección de Antigüedades .
      ntre los objetos que se exponen, destaca la famosa escultura de la reina egipcia Nefertiti.
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