Market Gate of Miletus in the Pergamon Museum - originally in Turkey

Tilework on the Ishtar Gate originally from the walls of Babylon and now in the Pergamon Museum - interesting that you have to go to Berlin to see it.

The old and the new - the Marienkirche steeple and the Fernsehturm television tower

Cathedral of Berlin (Berliner Dom) and the River Spree

It took some time to find the Kaiser Wilheim Memorial Church because part of it (the front facade) is being restored and the rest doesn't look like the expected pictures. The church was badly destroyed in the 1943 bombing raids.

Ceiling in the vestibule of the Kaiser Wilheim Church

Model of the original

Model of the present restoration and new construction

On our way to visit the Berlin Musical Instrument Museum, we wandered through the KaDeWe department store (no pictures). VERY upscale with 60,000 square meters of sales area.  On the sixth floor is a deli with a section for everything imaginable - wursts, fish, olives, pasta, chocolates, bakery, pastries, wines, etc.  We wandered about looking at all the fancy European goodies. 

Berlin Musical Instrument Museum

Berlin Musical Instrument Museum

Berlin Musical Instrument Museum

Bricks marking the location of the Berlin Wall - the bricks are laid along the entire perimeter

A section of the Berlin Wall today - professional artists' interpretation of "joy"

Fancy sewer cover

We took an optional tour to Potsdam to see the site of the 1945 Potsdam Conference where Stalin, Churchill (and then Clemet Attlee after Churchill lost the 1945 English election) and Roosevelt (and then Truman after Roosevelt died) met to decide on the expected reparations from Germany.

Glienicker Bridge.  The bridge where the famous spy and agent swaps took place in 1962.  Gary Powers, the pilot who was shot down over Soviet territory, was one of those exchanged.

Even the East and West sides of the bridge were painted in different shades of green.

The dividing line

Schloss Cecilienhof where the 1945 Potsdam Conference was held

Photograph of a Potsdam Conference session

Gardens at Sanssouci Palace

Sanssouci Palace was the palace of Frederick the Great. We would have seen more but a monsterous thunder storm hit and it just poured rain.