Berlin Sightseeing and Attractions
Map of geo-tagged wikipedia articles that may point you towards some interesting things to see or do.
Berlin Top 10 Attractions
#1 Hermannplatz (Berlin U-Bahn)
station located on the and the . It is in Berlin and has nine ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermannplatz_(Berlin_U-Bahn)
#2 Schwerbelastungskörper
: "heavy load-bearing body") is a large cylinder made of concrete in Berlin, Germany. It was built in 1941 to study the feasibility of constructing large buildings on the sandy ground in the area, in preparation for the planned construction nearby of a massive Triumphal Arch. It is 18 m high and has a mass of 12,650 metric tons ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerbelastungskörper
#3 Rote Insel
"Rote Insel" (literally, "Red Island") is the name colloquially given to a neighborhood in the Schöneberg district of the German capital, Berlin. As such, the "Island" is part of Berlin's 7th administrative borough, Tempelhof-Schöneberg. On the Berlin city map, the neighborhood is easily located within the distinctive triangle (formed by railroad tracks) in the south-western part of ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_Insel
#4 Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park)
and military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 5,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April-May 1945. It opened four years after the war ended on May 8, 1949, and served as the central war memorial of East Germany ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_War_Memorial_(Treptower_Park)
#5 Sonnenallee, Berlin
The "Sonnenallee" is a street in Berlin connecting the districts of Neukölln and Treptow-Köpenick. The street is 5km long, crossing Baumschulenstraße at its south east end and terminating at Hermannplatz in the north west. Sonnennallee was constructed at the end of the 19th century. The area around the Sonnennallee was created to cater for the rural drift to the city of that period. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenallee,_Berlin
#6 Archenhold Observatory
The "Archenhold Observatory", named in honor of Friedrich Simon Archenhold, is an observatory in Berlin-Treptow. It was opened to the public on 1 May 1896 as the Treptow Observatory to coincide with the Berlin Industrial Show. Based on Archenhold's design it contained what was then the world's longest telescope, with a focal length of 21 meters ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archenhold_Observatory
#7 Berlin Südkreuz
"Berlin Südkreuz" (German: Berlin South Cross) is a railway station in the German capital Berlin. The station was originally opened in 1898 and is a crossing station. The Berlin Ringbahn line of the Berlin S-Bahn metro railway is situated on the upper level and connects to the east and west, whilst the Anhalter Bahn and Dresdner Bahn intercity railway routes reach the station on the lower, ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Südkreuz
#8 Rathaus Schöneberg
for the Borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg in Berlin. It was constructed between 1911–1914 for Schöneberg, at that time an independent city not yet incorporated into Berlin. After World War II, with Berlin divided, the Rote Rathaus (Red City Hall), the traditional seat of the Berlin government, was off limits to West Berlin ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathaus_Schöneberg
#9 Treptow
in Poland.}} "Treptow" is a former borough in the southeast of Berlin. It merged with Köpenick to form Treptow-Köpenick in ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treptow
#10 Innsbrucker Platz
"Innsbrucker Platz" is a square in Berlin, a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the , and also a Berlin S-Bahn ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innsbrucker_Platz
Snippets on this specific page are based on content from wikipedia.org. Licensed under CC-by-SA 3.0
Did you know? ...
Berlin is known by different spellings and names throughout the world. These are the ones we know of:
Berlino, Berlyn, Estat de Berlín, Berlëno, Berliini, Berlynas, Berlijn, Birlinu, Berlini, Berliin, Berlín - Berlin, Berolinum, Berlien, Berlim, Beirlín, Берлин, Berlīne
Berlin
The newest articles from the Tripmondo Magazine section.