Topic: Brandenburg Gate

Pole vaulters fly high at Brandenburg Gate

French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie produced a best jump of 5.76metres on Friday at the "Berlin Flies" competition at the Brandenburg Gate, put together to mark the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall."It wasn't a perfect ...

Photos of the day, May 29, 2011

Photos of the day selected by the Photo Editors at the National Post. VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images. Neatly stacked sardines are on display at...
Meet the man with the world's most impressive beard.. Elmar Weisser, a 47 year-old hairdresser, beat 160 hopefuls from 15 countries to take first...
TRONDHEIM, Norway — A German man scooped the title of world's best beard on Sunday after impressing competition hosts in Norway with his facial...

German hairdresser lifts 'best beard' trophy

A German man scooped the title of world's best beard on Sunday after impressing competition hosts in Norway with his facial hair featuring a moose and a Norwegian flag.Hairdresser Elmar Weisser, 47, beat 160 hopefuls from 15 countries to take ...

Top 10 things to do in Berlin

The lively cosmopolitan German capital makes a popular European city break, and there are no end of things to do in Berlin. Although its troubled...

Berlin Hotels for Under $225

Augustrasse › Hotel Amano The white and slate gray rooms of this stone-and-glass hotel in the fashionable Mitte district might feel pocket-size...
Germany's Jewish community sets up menorah in front of iconic Brandenburg GateThe leaders of Berlin's Jewish community set up a 20-foot (six-meter) tall menorah for Hanukkah on Wednesday against the backdrop of one of Germany's most historically important symbols ...

Berlin's Famous Monument

In the middle of it all stood the Brandenburg Gate, peering over the Berlin Wall at the Pariser Platz.. The Nazi party's dramatic candlelit parade celebrating Adolf Hitler's legal ascension to Reich Chancellor in 1933 culminated at the Brandenburg Gate ...

Travel guide: Berlin, Germany

Berlin is the reflection of its eventful history as the metropolis of an empire, and the city of the National Socialist regime. Besides, as a movie trailer shows,? ?Berlin is a village? - cornfields, lakes, and forests, the TV tower, building sites, fashions ...