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Left Berlin Reichstag Right A café in the Hackesche Höfe
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Reproduced by Connecting People,
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Printed and bound in Italy by Graphicom
First published in Great Britain in 2002
by Dorling Kindersley Limited
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Reprinted with revisions 2006
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ISBN-13: 978 1 4053 1228 8
ISBN-10: 1 4053 1228 9
Within each Top 10 list in this book, no
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implied. All 10 are, in the editor’s opinion,
of roughly equal merit.
Contents
Berlin’s Top 10
Brandenburger Tor &
Pariser Platz 8
Reichstag 10
Unter den Linden 12
Potsdamer Platz 16
Pergamonmuseum 20
Kurfürstendamm
Kaiser-Wilhelm-
24
Gedächtnis-Kirche 26
Schloss Charlottenburg 28
Kulturforum 32
Zoologischer Garten 36
Historic Buildings 38
Modern Buildings 40
Moments in History 42
Churches & Synagogues 44
Museums 46
Art Galleries 48
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Cover: All photographs specially commissioned except: Front – Corbis: Ludovic Maisant bl; Peter Wilson main
image; DK Images: Jurgen Scheunemann cl. Spine -- DK Images: Dorota and Mariusz Jarymowicz. Back --
DK Images: Amin Aktar tr; Dorota Jarymowicz tc, tl.