Berlin Region Guide: Overview, Hotels & Travel Writing

The Berlin Wall once stood as one of the most powerful, sinister and visible icons of the Cold War era. It was the iron curtain incarnate in reinforced concrete and razor-wire. Hundreds of thousands of Europeans lived their lives under the shadow –...

Paradoxically ugly yet beautiful, despite - or perhaps because of - its troubled past, the 21st century finds Berlin tackling the present very much on its own terms...