1000 Places to See Before You Die: 1 - Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany
For Christmas I got the book "1000 places to see before you die" by Patricia Schultz and I was inspired. I have travelled a bit during these past years and flatter myself that I have seen a good deal of these places already. And I was inspired to write blogposts about the places I have been, since I would like this blog to also contain a few travel tips and inspiration. Paging through the book I had to go surprisingly far to find a place I had been (not the mighty traveller I thought I was), but the first place I came across was Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, Germany. But here I have been twice, once with a friend and once with my sister and little niece. Brandenburger Tor was planned in 1791 as a remembrance of a Prussian victory, and in 1961 it was incorporated into the Berlin Wall when this was built. The wall was 45 km long, 4 m high and had barbed wire on top. Many parts of this wall remain scattered throughout the city of Berlin today as a historical landmar...