(Berlin, 09.07.2025-11.07.2025) Anyone who has participated in this tour thus far is already aware of the attractions: lost places, Jewish cemeteries, street art, and Soviet memorials. Berlin naturally has all of this to offer. While not located in Mitte or Prenzlauer Berg, these sites are found on the periphery and, as one would expect from a metropolis, they are monumental in scale. With an area of 3.55 square kilometers, Tempelhofer Feld, which is used as a park and recreational area, is even slightly larger than Central Park in New York. The adjacent Berlin-Tempelhof Airport, built by the Nazis in the 1930s, was the largest building in the world at the time and is still the largest architectural monument in Europe. The Jewish Cemetery Berlin-Weißensee covers an area of about 42 hectares and, with 116,000 graves, is the largest preserved Jewish cemetery in Europe. The East Side Gallery is 1.3 kilometers long, making it the longest intact section of the Berlin Wall, which was transformed into an open-air gallery by artists after the fall of the Wall. The Soviet Memorial in Berlin-Tiergarten was the first large memorial erected in Berlin after the end of World War II. With all this gigantism, isn't it a little comforting that two boys are improving their shooting technique in basketball on the huge Tempelhof field? "Take care!" they called out to me—I'll do my best, even on the last leg of our tour!
Additional photos of the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee:
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