Enjoying Your Holiday in Berlin
Berlin, the capital city of Germany is the main city in the country. It is well-known for its historical locations, nightlife, cafes, clubs, bars, museums, palaces, and more places worth seeing. In the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin War, the city has converted into an absolute melting pot as far as culture is concerned. It has become a city where all varieties of art, music, and fashion come together.
The city has a large number of museums. Museums run by the government are free to enter four hours before they close every Thursday, and there is also the three day Museum Pass which allows access to approximately 70 museums.
Museumsinsel, also known as Museum Island is well-known for being the place where the Pergamon Museum is located, which has an enormous assortment of Greek and Islamic art. In addition, other museums on the island comprise the Altes Museum with Egyptian collections, the Alte National galleries with largely German collections, and the Bode Museum with Byzantine art.
You can visit many museums that cover the history of the country, in particular the Holocaust. Additionally, Berlin is one of those few cities that do not want to cover the negative sides of its history. You can witness ruins of the Berlin Wall as well as Jewish museums that cover the Holocaust.
The Deutches Historisches Museum has a huge collection of German history items covering all ages. This museum is very large, so make sure you have enough stamina to spend hours looking at everything. The Judisches Museum is the Jewish museum. There are a lot of historical items about Jews in Germany in this museum. There is also a Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe which covers one whole block. There is an underground museum with details about the Holocaust. This is one of the most visited as well as most impressive museums in Berlin.
The Berlin Wall may not be there anymore, but a piece of it is still observable down the river. This has been conserved as a gallery, and there are exceptionally good murals on it. There is also a Berlin War Memorial for those that died crossing the wall. There is a viewing platform that lets you envisage precisely what it must have been like when the wall was still in place. Checkpoint Charlie used to be a crossing point connecting the two sides of Germany, and is also well worth a visit.
The Tempelhof airport is the airport that was used during the Berlin Airlift in 1948. There is now a memorial here to commemorate the airlifts around the blockade. This airport has also been featured in many films, and has a unique look to it. With its many halls and buildings, it was built to become an entry point to Europe, and is still one of the largest buildings in the world.
Berlin is a wonderful city to come to for tourists, and if you can only visit one city in Germany then you should come see Berlin. Its history will move you, and you will be haunted the rest of your life by many of the historic sites you see here.