It’s not a visit to Berlin until you’ve seen the Berlin Wall.
The first thing on my to-do list in Berlin was to visit the East Side Gallery. The open-air art gallery is located on the banks of the Spree in Friedrichshain. At 1316 metres long, The East Side Gallery takes a section of the Berlin Wall and makes it the longest open-air gallery in the world.
After the wall came down in 1989, 118 artists from 21 countries began painting the East Side Gallery and officially opened as an open-air gallery on the 28th September 1990.
There are more than a hundred paintings to admire as you walk along the wall. What was once the east side of the wall, is now the home to artwork that artists have used to comment on the political changes in 1989/90. Some of the works at the East Side Gallery are particularly popular, such as Dmitri Vrubel’s Fraternal Kiss and Birgit Kinders’s Trabant breaking through the wall.
The East Side Gallery is a must-see when in Berlin. If you want to get to learn more about the art you are seeing, you can book a free walking tour.
On your way to the Berlin wall, you are likely to cross the Oberbaumbrücke. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the bridge now connects the two halves of the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. The bridge has a great view and is a great spot for taking pictures
From the city centre, it is easy to get there. Warschauer Straße and Ostbahnhof railway stations are the perfect starting points for a walk along the East Side Gallery.
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