Berlin today is a mix of old world eastern culture and sleek modern design. Even though the Berlin Wall fell over twenty years ago, the division between east and west Berlin is still stark. Communist era buildings in the east are still painted in drab grays and yellows with an industrial design and the harshness of concrete. In West Berlin, the twenty-first century has taken over with the glass-domed Reichstag and the tall, futuristic spire of the TV Tower.

The Berlin Wall divided the city between east and west for decades during the Cold War. The wall fell in 1989, but portions of it are intact and in their original location. You can walk along the wall as it bends to the curve of the river while imagining what it would have been like to know that you couldn

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