Potsdamer Platz & Tiergarten

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Neighbourhood Top Five 1 Feeling your spirit soar zling a cold one in a beer to the Nazis and often paid while studying an Aladdin’s garden. the ultimate price at the cave of Old Masters at the 3 Stopping for coffee and Gedenkstätte deutscher magnificent Gemälde- people-watching beneath widerstand (p121). galerie (p116). the magnificent canopy of 5 Catching Europe’s fastest 2 Getting lost amid the the svelte glass-and-steel lift to the panoramapunkt lawns, trees and leafy sony center (p113). (p114) to admire Berlin’s paths of the Tiergarten 4 Learning about the impressive cityscape. park (p125), followed by guz- brave people who stood up

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Po ¨ Joseph-Roth-Diele are a common sight in the Diplomatenviertel (Diplo- (p123) T matic Quarter), which is also distinguished by some fine sda For reviews, see p123 A contemporary architecture. And if your head is spinning after all that cultural stimulus, the leafy paths of the M

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z & Tiergar & z ¨ victoriabar (p126) Local Life ¨ Solar (p125) ¨ Café am Neuen See ¨ Museums Berliners are passionate about art, and they (p125) especially love the blockbuster international exhibits For reviews, see p125 A that periodically land at the Neue Nationalgalerie (p119).

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Best for ticket. Some even camped out overnight. 1 ¨ Architecture concerts Empty seats are a rare sight at the Berliner Philharmonie (p126), especially when Sir Simon Rattle ¨ Philharmonie (p120) swings the baton. The free lunchtime concerts lure plenty ¨ Bauhaus Archiv (p122) of onlookers, from students to tourists and desk-jockeys. ¨ Sony Center (p113) ¨ Tiergarten When the sun is out, Berliners just want For reviews, see p119 A to get outdoors to the sweeping lawns, shady paths and romantic corners of the Tiergarten park, followed by a cold beer and pizza at the beer garden of Café am Neuen See (p125).

Getting There & Away ¨ bus No 200 comes through from Zoologischer Garten and Alexanderplatz, M41 links the Hauptbahnhof with Kreuzberg and Neukölln via Potsdamer Platz, and the M29 comes in from Checkpoint Charlie. ¨ s-bahn S1 and S2 link Potsdamer Platz with Unter den Linden and the Scheunenviertel. ¨ u-bahn U2 stops at Potsdamer Platz and Mendelssohn–Bartholdy–Park.