TOURISM
BERLIN - THE CAPITAL OF EUROPE, ONCE AGAIN Everyone is again rushing to see Berlin! The city has become the artistic and financial centre of Europe, as well as a tourist superpower.
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ecause of Brexit, London is drifting apart from Europe, with the UK citizens now needing visas to visit certain countries. Berlin is positioning itself as the tourist capital of Europe.
THE NEW GOLDEN AGE The time has come for Germany to shine again! This time around, there are
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no clouds on the horizon, and the European superpower has become attractive to many. Some people come only as tourists, some come to work and then stay, some go to Germany to pursue their artistic careers. The vast majority of the latter end up in Berlin, which is a new hub of art, music, creativity and nightlife. They say that Berlin and Budapest are the two most exciting Europan cities for nightlife. The German old /new capital is a city
with “two souls”, since it re-emerged as a unified city only after 1990. The differences between East and West Berlin are quite visible in architecture, to say the least. Approximately at the same time as the unification, Wim Wenders used the city as an iconic playground and backdrop for his film “Der Himmel über Berlin” or strangely translated into English as “Wings of Desire”, which lured thousands of people to see this place that had been divided for decades. However, the era of the Berlin Wall is now behind us, even if though there are some parts of the Wall that have been preserved as a tourist attraction. Did you know that the period after the fall of the Berlin Wall is actually now longer than the period during which the Wall existed? This is a new Berlin, reminiscent of the time when the city was the capital of Europe's jazz scene, art and music, prior to 1933. This is the new Golden Age for Berlin!
