East German Watchtower on Potsdamer Platz
East German Watchtower in Potsdamer Platz A piece of the past hidden in plain sight in the middle...
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Exploring the Friedhofsbahn: The Old Wannsee – Stahnsdorf Railway Line
Berlin has a vast transport network composed of S-Bahn and U-Bahn lines that cover almost 500 km of tracks across the city. And the town used to have even more tracks, but due to political divisions, world wars and economic problems, some of those tracks were abandoned. One of those is known as Friedhofsbahn, and it used to connect Berlin-Wannsee to Stahnsdorf.
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Berlin Moves with Alex Soloviev
In Berlin Moves, Alex Soloviev tries to capture the German capital from the eyes of a local. At the same time, he tries to show how beautiful the city is from the perspective of a tourist. He wants to show you all the small things that you overlook while you walk around Berlin, and this is one of the many reasons why we had to write something about his latest video.
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Our Favorite Places to Visit and Things to Do in Budapest
Things to Do in Budapest Exploring the beauty of the Hungarian Capital ; Budapest is a fantastic...
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Budapest’s Memento Park
Budapest's Memento Park A Cemetery of Communist Statues in Hungary ; Located in the hilly south of...
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The Unearthed Head of Lenin at Zitadelle Spandau
The Unearthed Head of Lenin A visit to a piece of East Germany in Zitadelle Spandau ; It weighs...
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Cycling the Frame: When Tilda Swinton cycled by the Berlin Wall
Back in 1988, one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Tilda Swinton took her bike and cycled around the Berlin Wall, together with the filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. What they created came to be known as Cycling the Frame, and it’s a beautiful and surreal document that shows a city scarred by a wall that cut it in half.
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Berlin Friedrichshain’s best hotels
When Fotostrasse first moved to Berlin, back in early 2012, we even considering moving to Berlin...
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