The Boulevard der Stars (“Avenue of the Stars”) is a continuously growing monument in honor of famous German personalities from the film and television industry. The monument is located near the Berlin–Mitte square Potsdamer Platz and extends along Potsdamer Straße from Potsdamer Platz to Ben-Gurion-Straße. In front of some buildings, it is widened on both sides. read more…
The Borsig Villa Reiherwerder is a former country house belonging to the Borsig family of Berlin entrepreneurs. It is located on the 12.37-hectareReiherwerder peninsula on the northwest shore of Lake Tegel, which is part of the Berlin district of Reinickendorf. Today, along with the neighboring buildings, it belongs to the Foreign Service Academy of the Federal Foreign Office, where all members of the middle, senior, and higher Foreign Service have been trained since the beginning of 2006. The villa itself serves as a guest house for the Federal Foreign Office. Directly north of the villa, facing the water, is a neo-Baroque garden (Garden monument of the Borsig Country House). The entire grounds are not open to the public. read more…
Welthauptstadt Germania, or World Capital Germania, was the projected renewal of the German capital Berlin during the Nazi period, as part of Adolf Hitler‘s vision for the future of Nazi Germany after the planned victory in World War II. It was to be the capital of his planned “Greater Germanic Reich“. Albert Speer, the “first architect of the Third Reich”, produced many of the plans for the rebuilt city in his capacity as overseer of the project, only a small portion of which was realised between the years 1938 and 1943. read more…
The Schwules Museum (English: Gay Museum) in Berlin, Germany, is a museum and research centre with collections focusing on LGBTQ+ history and culture. It opened in 1985 and it was the first museum in the world dedicated to gay history. read more…
The DDR Museum is a museum in the centre of Berlin. The museum is located in the former governmental district of East Germany, right on the river Spree, opposite the Berlin Cathedral. The museum is the 11th most visited museum in Berlin. read more…
The Dong Xuan Center is an Asianwholesale market on Herzbergstrasse in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg in the Lichtenberg district. It was developed from the late 1990s on the former site of Siemens Plania AG, partly using existing industrial and administrative buildings. Expansions and new uses are constantly taking place. The focus is on sales, services and, from 2024, cultural events. The model and namesake of the Berlin Dong Xuan Center is the Dong Xuan Market in Hanoi, which was built in 1889 and is the largest and oldest market in the Vietnamese capital. read more…
