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Start our tour in Germany by the capital Berlin, known as the Island of Museums because presents a varied cultural offer that exceeds the 350 museums. Among the museums highlights of the city are on the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, where it poses one of the most large collections of Ancient Egypt; the Jdisches Museum Berlin or Jewish Museum in Berlin, which opened its doors to the public in 2001, becoming since then in one of the museums more complete information on the subject of Judaism in Europe; the Vorderasiatisches Museum or Museum of the Middle East, which shows us a series of archaeological objects from that part of the world; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin, which dates from the year 1996, and where you can find paintings, paintings, sculptures; to the Pinacoteca (Old), which is regarded as one of the best in the world in terms Art and paintings of great masters of the Old Continent (between the 13th century and the 18th century); and the Museum “House of Checkpoint Charlie” or Museum of the Wall.

As we have referred to the Wall, it is important to note that 2 attractions that we cannot fail to visit are the Berlin Wall and the Brandenburg Gate.

The Berlin Wall, Berliner Mauer or Wall of Protection Antifascist, as you want call it, is a landmark in the history not only of Germany but of the world because this concrete wall separating 2 ideologies, the communist and capitalist. This wall for several decades divided an entire nation in 2 different sides, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, known as West Germany and Eastern Germany. This wall that was built in the year 1961 fell in the year 1989.

For its part, the Brandenburg Gate, as the same name tells us, it is the former door for admission to the German capital Berlin. This imposing monument was done by Carl Gotthard Langhans in the year 1791 on behalf of the monarch Federico Wilhelm II of Prussia.