Potsdamer Platz

Potsdamer Platz is one of the highlights of the city of Berlin. In this square holds the Berlin Film Festival, better known as the Berlinale, which hands out the Golden Bear for best film of the festival.

In this square, since the nineteenth century developed an area of dense commercial and cultural activity. It was here where the first traffic light was installed in Europe.

Potsdamer Platz, like the rest of the city came under Allied bombing during the last months of World War II, which led to the almost total destruction of buildings on the site.

After the occupation of the city by the Allies, the Potsdamer Platz was in the area dividing the Soviet and American protectorates. With the construction of the wall that crossed it in the west, was in a no man's land unusable and was not rebuilt, despite being very close to the main commercial street of East Berlin. After the fall of the Berlin Wall took on the task of rehabilitating Potsdamer Platz, which they did in the course of less than a decade.

The current architecture of the place does not remember anything in the original.