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![]() Berlin: Brandenburg Gate
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![]() Alexanderplatz with TV Tower
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The German capital is a truly multi-cultural metropolis .
Divided by the Wall for 28 years, the re-united city has quickly become a colourful and exciting international metropolis and a home to creative people from around the world.
Among the top sights are the Brandenburger Tor (the only remaining historical city gate), the German parliament (Reichstag) with its glass dome, and the TV tower with its revolving restaurant 207 m above the city. From the gate you can stroll down the historical boulevard Unter den Linden to museum island and the site where the city castle is being rebuilt.
For a spectacular 12-metre-long original dinosaur skeleton of Tristan Otto, a Tyrannosaurus rex, check in at Berlin’s Natural History Museum. Relax during a boat tour on the river Spree or visit the German Technology Museum with exhibitions on traffic, communications, navigation, space and aeronautics and one of the world’s largest railway collections.
If you want to get an idea of the division of Germany and Berlin, go to the Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse with a piece of the Wall and watchtower or the Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie with its display of all the various ways people used to escape from East Germany.
Finally, try the Berlin specialties like currywurst and döner kebap!
In Berlin, home to people from various nations and backgrounds, the YAA particularly embraces the idea of film as a medium that transcends borders and connects people: The day includes an introduction to the many different places where the participants were born and aims at uniting them in their passion for film.