Berlin - Touristic Guide

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche
 The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche ("commemorative Church of Guglielmo Emperor") is one church of Berlin, situated in the quarter of Charlottenburg. The church marks the beginning of the Kurfürstendamm. Seriously damaged during the second world war, it has not been more reconstructed and its alive ruins offer a testimony of the horrors of the war. Is also known like Gedächtniskirche ("commemorative Church").

Schloss Charlottenburg
 The Schloss Charlottenburg is the greatest remained historical palace to Berlin after the Second world war. It is found in the zone (Ortsteil) of Charlottenburg.
 To the inside of the Palace the Bernsteinzimmer was found (amber room), a room with the walls completely covered of amber tables, and came described like "the eighth wonder of the world". The idea was realized in the Polish cities of Danzica and Königsberg from the Masters Gottfried Wolffram, Ernst Schacht and Gottfried Turau from 1701 to 1709. It was designed from architect Andreas Schlüter.

 The garden of the castle came planned from Siméon Godeau to leave from 1697, on the style of a French garden. From 1788 hand transformed in part in a garden to English came man. To the inside of the garden they find the Lookout, constructed in the 1788/89 from Carl Gotthard Langhas for the king Federico Guglielmo II; the Neuer Pavillon, constructed in the 1824/25 from Karl Friedrich Schinkel inspiring itself to one Neapolitan villa; the Mausoleum, constructed for Queen Luise, moglie of Federico Gugliemo III.

St. Matthäuskirche
 The St. Matthäuskirche is one church of Berlin, in the Tiergarten quarter.
 Is comprised in the area of the Kulturforum, not distant from Potsdamer Platz.
 The church came constructed between 1844 and 1846 on plan of Friedrich August Stüler and Herbert Wentzel. The plan previewed the realization of one structure inspired to the Italian Romanesque style.


Reichstag Palace
 The palace of the Reichstag of Berlin came constructed like place where the Reichstag, the parliament of the Germanic Empire, would have gathered. It came inaugurated in 1894 and it returned to being the center of the German parliament in 1999.
 German parliament puts into effect them calls Bundestag. The meant Reichstag as parliament laughed them to the Sacred Roman Empire and stopped to exist in the years of Nazi Germany (1933-1945). The German term Reichstag refers therefore to the building mainly.

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
 The Haus der Kulturen der Welt is a building of Berlin, situated in the Tiergarten. 1957 on plan of the architect were constructed between 1956 and American Hugh Stubbins, and were one of the plans introduce you for the Internationale Bauhausstellung of 1957. For its particular shape it is known also like pregnant oyster. Originally it had been conceived like center conferences, instead today it is used like cultural center and you events and shows of art are organized. The bathtub to the income of the building accommodates one sculpture of Henry Moore.

Schloss Bellevue
 The Schloss Bellevue is a castle that is found in the Tiergarten to Berlin. The name derives from the panorama that it is enjoyed on the Sprea.
 The castle came finished in 1786 for the smaller brother of Federico II of Prussia, on plan of architect Philipp Daniel Boumann, like summery residence.The plan enclosed also part of a building a pre-existing. It is the first building in constructed neoclassico style in Germany and is composed from a structure centers them with 19 orders of windows, with two lateral wings called respective: Damenflügel (wing of the getlteman) and Spreeflügel (wing of the Sprea).

Victoria Column
 The Column of the Victoria (Siegessäule) is one of monuments more celebrates than Berlin. It is found to the center of the Tiergarten.
 It was planned in the 1864 from Heinrich Strack, in order to commemorate the Victoria of the Prussia in the war Prussiano-Danish, and inaugurated the 2 September 1873.

Differently from the original plans, it came added one bronze sculpture of the Victoria high 8.3m and heavy 35 tons. The sculpture, operates of Friedrich Drake, came added in order to celebrate the victories of the Prussia against Austria and France. Originally the monument had found positioning in the pressed ones of the Reichstag, but in the 1938-39 nazi regimen it made to move the monument to the inside of the park.

Gate of Brandenburg
 Gate of Brandenburg is the known monument more than Berlin, and symbol of the German unit. It came constructed to leave from 1788 and open to the 6 traffic August of the 1791 from Carl Gotthard Langhans that taken cue from the Propilei di Atene. It constitutes the western final point of the tree-lined avenue Unter den Linden near the Pariser Platz.
  The door is high 26 meters and wide 65. The columns in stone, than to earth have a circumference of 1,75 meters, create 5 points of passage.

The Fernsehturn(TV Tower)
 The Fernsehturn is one tower for the television antennas in the center of Berlin in Germany is one. It is a known point of reference of the city, near the Alexanderplatz. The tower was constructed in the 1969 from the German Democratic Republic (RDT) and its image was used like symbol of Berlin from the administration of the RDT. The tower is easy visible from all the districts centers them of Berlin and remains one of the symbols of the city. It is high 368 m, and to the height of 207m a panoramic restaurant is found that every wheel of 360° half hour. It makes part of the World Federation of Great Towers.
  From the tower all is looked at the city (in case of good visibility, frequent case thanks to the wind), but it is not worth the contrary: often from the city, date the height of the palaces, does not look at the tower.
 The tower is found on a land expropriate during the DDR. The former-owner hour demands the land and would expect to pull down the tower.