BERLIN

Berlin, the capital city of Germany, is rich of historical and modern beauties, it has monuments of the Prussian age and amazing developments of the modern architecture of the last years. The city does not have a defined central zone and the attractions are found dispersed in every angle of the city, the most dense area with places to visit it is found however to the east of the Brandenburg Gate, on both sides of the Unter den Linden. West Berlin has little to offer: of interest are the rests of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche, that gives an idea of the destructions brought to the city from the second world war.

Berlin main attractions: between the main attractions we can cite: Alexanderplatz, the Cathedral of Berlin, the Bode Museum, the Brandenburg Gate, the Charlottenburg Palace, the Dorotheenstadt Cemetary, the Federal chancery, the New Sinagogue, the Gendarmenmarkt, the Hackesche Höfe, the Shopping Center KaDeWe, the Olympic Stadium, the Radio and the Television Towers.

Berlin is a city rich of museums, it has more than 170. The Museumsinsel, an unique concentration of museums that illustrate the evolution of the modern museums in an arc of time of beyond a century, has been inscribed from the Unesco in the World Heritage List of the patrimony of the humanity in 1999. The museums of the city allow to see numerous works of art, indeed are conserved in the museums of the city the famous statue of the bust of Nefertiti, the greek Pergamon Altar, the painters of the "Brücke" and the "Bauhaus" and works by Baselitz and Beuys.

The most famous museum of the city is the Pergamonmuseum, with its collections of Antiquity, of the Near East and Islamic Art. Between the other museums we can cite: Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, the German Historical Museum, the Old and the New National Gallery, the Palace of Charlottenburg, the Technic-Museum, the Altes Museum, the Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, the Egyptian Museum (Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung), the Gemäldegalerie (European art from the 13th to 18th century), the Natural History Museum, one of the more important museums of this kind in the world.

With 500 ha of parks and 150 buildings constructed between 1730 and 1916, Potsdam's complex of palaces and parks forms an artistic whole, whose eclectic nature reinforces its sense of uniqueness. It extends into the district of Berlin-Zehlendorf, with the palaces and parks lining the banks of the River Havel and Lake Glienicke.

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Public transportation in Berlin: Public transport within Berlin is provided by the S-Bahn an underground rail system that consists of 15 lines (331.5 km net length) and is integrated with the mostly underground U-Bahn (144.2 km) to form the backbone of Berlin's rapid transport system. The U-Bahn consists of 170 stations on nine subway lines. The Straßenbahn tram (trolley) system operates almost exclusively in the eastern part of the city (187.7 km), Buses provide extensive service linking outlying districts with the city center and to the U-Bahn and S-Bahn. Almost all means of public transport can be accessed with the same ticket. 

Climate in Berlin:

Berlin	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Rainfall (mm)	43	38	39	41	49	64	71	62	44	44	45	48
Min Temp (°C)	-3	-2	0	4	8	11	13	12	9	6	2	-1
Max Temp (°C)	2	3	8	13	18	22	23	23	18	13	7	3

Berlin enjoys pleasant, sunny summers when days are long and temperatures can sometimes exceed 30°C, particularly in July and August. However the summer months are also unpredictable, and odd days can rapidly change from sunshine to cloud. Winter weather in Berlin, by contrast, is bitterly cold and damp, with plentiful snow and frosty days when temperatures hover at or just below freezing. From November to early March, skies tend to be gloomy and the mercury often drops below freezing. Rain can fall all year round, but the wettest months are June and August, and the driest on average October and February.