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• Berlin's districts

  Berlin is four times the size of Paris, and with 12 administrative districts subdivided into 23 Kiez neighbourhoods, it's a good idea to grasp the geography of the city before wandering around....

• Charlottenburg

  This western district of Berlin, both the beautiful whitewashed mansions and the brassy advertising signs that sometimes mar their facades, has had its pride a bit bruised since the fall of the Wall....

• Events in Berlin

  Berlin events, April-May 2012Find the venue details at the bottom of the list.Classical music5 April, ...

• Sachsenhausen Memorial

  While African-American sprinter Jesse Owens was kicking dust in the face of Hitler’s master race at Berlin’s 1936 Summer Olympics, slave labourers were building their own concentration camp roughly 35km north of the cheering international spectators....

• Berlin in books

  An overview of fiction and non-fiction books on Berlin that can be considered as essential reading....

• Embassy architecture

  
  In the embassy district on the south side of Tiergarten, architects have proven to be the best attachés for public relations....

• Cold War Berlin

  
  If families in Washington and Moscow felt threatened by the Cold War – and by the missiles that ...

• Festival: Long Night of Opera & Theatre

  On 28 April, the fourth edition of the Lange Nacht der Opern und Theater sees 57 theatres across Berlin open their doors between 19:00 and 01:00....

• Berlin travel basics

  The travel details that are good to know.Basic dataPopulation of Germany: 81,751,602; Berlin: 3,460,725Longest river in Germany: Rhine, 1319km....

• Fast food

  
  Berlin is known for several simple dishes, but its most indigenous dish is a hard sell to tourists: Eisbein (pork knuckle) with sauerkraut and puréed peas....

• Mitte in the middle

  
  The historic centre of Berlin, Mitte kept its name even when the city’s division made it East Berlin’s western frontier, ending at the Brandenburg Gate....

• Film Festivals in Berlin

  Apart from the huge Berlinale film festival in February, Berlin has over 40 smaller international film festivals throughout the year, often focused on a country or theme....

• The German Menu

  So you can't tell your weisswurst from your schinken? That's where our handy menu decoder comes in....