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Where to find the Berlin In Your Pocket city guide
Seen the website, downloaded the PDF... now you need the real thing: Berlin In Your Pocket. On arrival ...
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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....
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall - that unique moment in history when the most powerful symbol of the Cold War was peacefully made redundant, literally overnight....
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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....
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Mayday in Kreuzberg: protests and parties
For 25 years, the first of May, Labour Day, has been a day of left-wing protests in the eastern part of Kreuzberg....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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Events in Berlin
Berlin events, April-May 2012Find the venue details at the bottom of the list.Classical music5 April, ...
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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....
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The German Menu
So you can't tell your weisswurst from your schinken? That's where our handy menu decoder comes in....
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Berlin in books
An overview of fiction and non-fiction books on Berlin that can be considered as essential reading....
Viewpoints
Although Berlin is not a city of skyscrapers and hilltop panoramas, there are quite a view places where you can overlook the city in all it's glory.
For an overview of panoramic viewpoints, click to the
Viewpoints section of
Sightseeing.
For an overview of restaurants perched on high places, see our
Food with a view section.