Germany

Photo: A large columned gate

A symbol of Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate welcomes pedestrians to the tree-lined Unter den Linden.

Photograph by Timothy Burk, My Shot

Beneath the gleaming skyscrapers of Berlin's Potsdamerplatz is the bunker where Hitler and Eva Braun took their lives. • Pieces of the wall that separated East from West remain in places. • Reunification is a work in progress. • But from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Bavarian Alps in the south, this anchor of central Europe offers a visitor far more than history. • Stunning baroque and rococo palaces, and castles beyond number, dot the lush, well-ordered countryside. • Order remains palpably important, a national virtue. • But so do exuberance and excitement.

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