The Wall segments
Original pieces of the Berlin Wall standing on the square, covered in chewing gum and stickers left by visitors.
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As architecture and history yes; as a pretty tourist sight, not really โ it is a modern district of glass and towers. Its value is the story: seeing a place that was Europe's busiest square, then empty ground, then rebuilt from nothing.
The Holocaust Memorial and the Brandenburg Gate are ten minutes' walk north, and Checkpoint Charlie lies the other way. The square works better as a starting point than a destination.
Half an hour to an hour for the square, the Wall segments and the Sony Center roof โ longer if you go into one of the centres or museums around it.
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Potsdamer Platz is the whole story of Berlin in one place. Before the war it was the busiest square in Europe; then bombing destroyed it; then the Berlin Wall ran straight through the middle of it, leaving empty ground between East and West for thirty years. After the Wall fell the square was rebuilt from nothing in the 1990s, and today it is a district of glass towers, shopping centres and cinemas. Almost nothing in it is old, and that is exactly what makes it interesting. In the middle stand original segments of the Berlin Wall, and a line in the ground marks where it ran.
Original pieces of the Berlin Wall standing on the square, covered in chewing gum and stickers left by visitors.
A vast tent-like canopy over a circular courtyard, lit in colours at night.
A replica of Europe's first traffic light, installed here in 1924 when this was the continent's busiest square.
Potsdamer Platz, 10785 Berlin