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Berlin Wall Memorial and East Side Gallery

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Berlin Wall Memorial and East Side Gallery
Photo: ബിപിൻ, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Two places to understand the Berlin Wall, which divided the city from 1961 to 1989. On Bernauer Strasse, the Berlin Wall Memorial keeps a stretch of the wall with its 'death strip' and watchtower, and tells the stories of escapes and of the people killed trying. The viewing tower at the visitor centre shows the whole layout. It's free.


Across the city by the River Spree, the East Side Gallery is the longest surviving section, 1.3 km of wall covered in murals by artists from around the world, including the famous 'Fraternal Kiss' of Brezhnev and Honecker.

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