A capital that a wall cut in two and that turned its own scar into the most honest memorial landscape in the world, a Bavarian city the monks named that perfected the art of drinking beer under chestnut trees, and a free port of merchants who bowed to no king and raised a district of red-brick warehouses on oak piles over the tide. Three cities that carry the weight of the twentieth century and the pleasures of the everyday in the same streets.
Cities
In-depth reads
Brandenburg Gate: The Triumphal Arch Marooned by the Berlin Wall
Companion·6 min
Berlin: The City That Reads Its Own Scar
Cultural·7 min
Little Istanbul at Kottbusser Tor: How Guest Workers Made Kreuzberg
Companion·7 min
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe: How Berlin Reads Its Own Reckoning
Companion·7 min