Forty kilometres south of Berlin, inside a former Soviet aircraft hangar that is the largest free-standing hall in the world, you will find a tropical rainforest. The hangar was built in the 1930s as a construction facility for airships. It is 360 metres long, 210 metres wide, and 107 metres high. Today it contains a […]
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Berlin is a city where history and modernity collide, offering an incredible array of attractions that tell the story of Germany’s turbulent yet triumphant past. 1. Brandenburg Gate The Brandenburg Gate is Berlin’s most iconic landmark. Built in 1791, this neoclassical monument once symbolised the division between East and West Berlin. Today, it stands as […]
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The Magdeburg Water Bridge (Wasserstraßenkreuz Magdeburg) is the longest navigable aqueduct in the world, an extraordinary 918-metre-long concrete channel that carries a river over a river, allowing cargo barges to cross high above the Elbe on Europe’s most audacious piece of waterway engineering. Opened in 2003 after nearly a century of planning, the bridge connects […]
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