Berlin, capital of hospitality

   With a population of 3.5 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city and likes very much every thing is new. The berliners like very much high culture.

   “Fine arts are as natural to them, as the air we breathe. The high culture is in their DNA”, says the

playwright Matthias Lilienthal.Only three days for visiting Berlin are enough to see an opera or stage play every night. Berlin offers the least expensive rentals in Europe, another advantage to visit it, and in addition offers more places in hotels than New York. It is therefore called “The capital of hospitality”. “Today Berlin is like Paris in the '20s, London in the '60s and New York in the 70s. There is no other city in excess of effervescence, vitality and creativity than Berlin”, says critic Renate Klett. The first appearance of the name Berlin was in the thirteenth century. It is believed that the name comes from the language of western Slavs (polabian language) who lived in the area in the eighth century and means “the swamp”. Berlin is constantly reinventing and always did so, as from the time it was the residence of the prince-elector of Brandenburg in the fifteenth century. Its rise began with Frederick I, first king of Prussia. Under William I, Berlin became the capital of the German Empire. Largely destroyed in the aftermath of World War II, the town on the River Spree was divided by the odious wall that separated West Germany from East Germany. Only in 1989 it was reunited, after a peaceful uprising, and became again the capital of Germany. Today Berlin is one of the future-oriented cities, modern and cultural in Europe. Visitors can admire the glass dome of the Reichstag, Friederichstrasse, an elegant shopping street, Pariserplatz, Alexanderplatz, the beautiful buildings on Unter den Linden boulevard, Opera, Palace of Prince, the Brandenburg Gate. Chariot on Brandenburg Tor fascinated Napoleon, who brought it to Paris for a while. Other attractions are Charlottenburg Palace, with its amazing gardens, Tiergarten park, the museum of antiquities, the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum Present, hundreds of art galleries. Altogether Berlin has 153 museums covering everything possible. Spectacular is the Island of museums, which received the UNESCO World Heritage membership.