Despite the never-ending economic recession,
Berlin is still clinging to its reputation as Europe’s most happening city for art and culture.

In particular, the central districts of the former East Berlin are home to a high concentration of newly-established project spaces, up-coming galleries and strange but wonderful little shops, bars and clubs.

The Karl Marx Allee starts at Berlin’s central focus point, the TV tower on Alexanderplatz, and leads on out to the furthest reaches of the whole new EU.
F ormerly called “Stalin Allee”, it is Europe’s Cold War boulevard and an impressive example of monumental overstatement.

This enormous open-air museum of eye-popping Stalinist architecture is now home to the first pictoplasma conference.

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