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Brandenburg Gate - Brandenburger Tor
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200 years old, the "old lady" has seen a lot and is still standing strong...The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin's most famous landmark sybolises more than anything else the division of Berlin and Germany until the fall of the wall. Even today, most locals still get the goose pimples if walking or cycling through the gate...
A national symbol of unity and the only remaining city gate in Berlin, the gate once made the first significant example of classicism, when build between 1789-91 and modeled after the Propylaeum in Athens by Carl Gotthard Langhans.
The facade ornamentation as well as the four-horsed "Quadriga" were, on the other hand designed by Johann Gottfried Schadow. The goddess of peace standing in the two-wheel chariot was later accomplished by an iron cross by Friedrich Schinkel after the defeat of Napoleon. However, just like most buildings, the Gate was also severely damaged during WWll and the Quadriga even destroyed completely. The one on display today is a cast from the original dating back to the year 1956. Anyhow, isolated during the time of the seperation, the fall of the wall reintegrated the gate into the recently designed Pariser Platz, itself worth a visit, housing impressive buildings as well as a number of embassies. However, the luxury Adlon Hotel, close by and rebuilt on its original site, is not only a Berlin highlight but also the set of the infamous "Michael Jackson baby-dangling episode"...Remember?!?!
By the way, during the World Soccer Championship in 2006, international journalists were shocked, considering the monument wedged between a giant soccer ball and public viewing screen to be mistreated - in their opinion abused for commercial purposes, they were sure no other capital city would allow such an "undignified treatment of the nation's holy sites" - why not calling it closeness to people...
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Pariser Platz 1
10117 Berlin, Germany |
| TRANSPORT: | S Unter den Linden:S1, S2, S25; U Mohrenstr.: U2; Bus: Reichstag/Bundestag: # 100, M41; Unter den Linden: TXL |
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| Entry by | little german |
| from | berlin |
| no. of entries | 161 |
| written on | 0000-00-00 |
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