3 days in Berlin
Berlin turned out to be more interesting than I imagined. I will briefly tell you about the main points that you need to visit.
First, be sure to buy a day ticket for the sightseeing bus and go around the entire route. There are several operators of such buses and all have several routes. I took the yellow route, it is the longest, 2.5 hours. Yellow and red buses start from Kurfü rstendamm.
The center in Berlin is very large and there is a lot to see. From the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag (Bundestag), walk along the oldest boulevard "Under the Lindens" (Unter den Linden) to the oldest church in the city, St. Mary (with her famous painting "Dance of Death"). You will pass by the island of museums, the university, the library, past the square where the Nazis burned 2.000 books on Kristallnacht, past the oldest and most famous street in the old district of Mitte, Friedrichstraß e.
If you turn onto Friedrichstrasse, you can come to Checkpoint Charlie, the famous checkpoint from West to East Berlin. There is also an interesting museum of this checkpoint and the Berlin Wall in general.
Not far from Mitte, closer to Postdamerplatz, a section of the Wall has been preserved and nearby, on the site of the buildings in which the Gestapo, the SS, and some other Security Service (also a punitive body) were located, is the Topography of Terror. Photographs, books, documents about the history of the regime and the victims of this regime.
Postdamer Platz - in the past the busiest square in Europe, where the first traffic light was installed. After the war, this square turned into a huge wasteland, in the 90s two companies began active development, and now it has again turned into a modern center of Berlin.
Another interesting place, formerly a Jewish district, not far from Alexander Platz, around Ornanienstrasse.
I liked this area most of all, pre-war houses have been preserved, on the sidewalk near some houses, metal plates with the names and dates of deportation and death of Jewish families are mounted in the paving stones. Not far from the most beautiful synagogue there is a house with traces of shelling. Near it is a very touching and "catchy" sculpture in memory of the dead Jews in concentration camps. There are many interesting galleries, a 100-year-old cafe where nothing seems to have changed since the day it was founded, it is by no means fake, on the contrary, many "ours" will not appreciate it...Is it located on Auguststra? e 24 and is called Cl? rchens Ballhaus (the name has not changed since its foundation). Plus it's delicious.
The most visited place in the area is the Hak yards. Interesting residential complex of that time, 10 min walk from Alexander Platz.
As for shopping, in KaDeVe, Opera Lafaet is expensive. There is a network of stock stores T Max. I also liked the Kauhof Gallery on Alexander Platz.
