THE BRANDENBURG GATE

The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) is a former city gate and one of the most well-known landmarks of Berlin and Germany.

photo taken at the Reichstag Dome

 It is located west of the city centre at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz.

 

 

 

It is the only remaining gate of a series through which Berlin was once entered. One block to the north stands the Reichstag building. The gate is the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, the renowned boulevard of linden trees which formerly led directly to the city palace of the Prussian monarchs. It was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. 

 

just one of the many tourist traps in front of the gate, a human bear.