In some cities, they’re called convenience stores, in others, bodegas, but in Berlin, those pint-sized late-night shops you see everywhere are Späti, and they’re integral to the city’s everyday life.
Best things to do in Berlin & places to see
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As Germany’s largest, most happening city, Berlin’s lure is obvious. Its pace is frantic: new buildings sprout up; nightlife is frenetic, trends whimsical; the air crackles with creativity and graffiti is ubiquitous; even brilliant exhibitions and installations are quickly replaced. Love or loathe its concrete curves, this incongruous Eastern-bloc relic has the best views over the city. In this guide we have collected the best things to do in Berlin.
The information in this article is inspired by Pocket Rough Guide Berlin , your essential guide for visiting Berlin .
Overshadowing every building in the vicinity, the gigantic Fernsehturm, or TV tower, looms over the eastern Berlin skyline like a displaced satellite on a huge factory chimney.
The highest structure in Western Europe, the 368m-high transmitter was built during the isolationist 1960s, when the eastern part of the city was largely inaccessible to West Germans. It was intended as a highly visible symbol of the permanence of East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. Once it opened in 1969 the tower soon became a popular stop-off on the East Berlin tourist circuit
Television tower Berlin, Germany © Shutterstock
The Berlin Wall was always famous for its graffiti, and now, on the longest remaining stretch, vivid murals record its demise.
Trailing the banks of the River Spree is the East Side Gallery, a 1.3km stretch of surviving Berlin Wall painted with political and satirical murals that is now one of the city’s best-known landmarks. Originally painted just after the Wall fell the murals resonate with the attitude and aesthetics of the time.
Some murals are imaginative, some trite and some impenetrable, but one of the most telling – and often imitated – shows Brezhnev and Honecker locked in a passionate kiss, with the inscription, “God, help me survive this deadly love”.
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Berlin Wall East Side Gallery Berlin Germany © TK Kurikawa/Shutterstock
Kreuzberg is home to Berlin's artsy types, with street art, bookshops, cafés, and a definitively eclectic and liberal feel. Hidden away down the side of an apartment building just off Oranienstrasse you'll find The Museum of Things.
The museum displays a range of everyday objects from telephones to Casio watches, «documenting modern everyday life characterized by commodity culture». If you are interested in design or art history visiting Museum of Things is a thing to do in Berlin for you.
If this doesn't sound like your bag then take a wonder down Oranienstrasse anyway and pop into NGBK bookshop and exhibition space.
Visiting museums can be boring; in our list we've compiled the weirdest museums around the world, and
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