Berlin The Secret Atlas
: We have prowled the city streets,
seeking out the hidden, eccentric, and overlooked
. Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, Berlin still reserves any number of hidden treasures
for those who know how to wander off the beaten track
.
An amphitheatre where animals were dissected, a sand dune hidden in a town
centre, the outstanding interior of an Expressionist church, a building which is a copy
of the Farnese Palace in Rome, a concrete construction weighing 12,000 tonnes built
to measure the solidity of the ground, a shining performance in the chapel of a
cemetery, an unknown masterpiece of brutalist architecture, the very first Nazi
concentration camp, a metro line running through a house...
Far from the madding crowds and the usual clichés, Berlin remains full of hidden
treasures that can only be seen by locals and travellers who bother to wander off the
beaten track.
An amphitheatre where animals were dissected, a sand dune hidden in a town
centre, the outstanding interior of an Expressionist church, a building which is a copy
of the Farnese Palace in Rome, a concrete construction weighing 12,000 tonnes built
to measure the solidity of the ground, a shining performance in the chapel of a
cemetery, an unknown masterpiece of brutalist architecture, the very first Nazi
concentration camp, a metro line running through a house...