The congress and trade fair city, Berlin, ranks amongst the best in the world as the participant and visitor figures clearly confirm. Empirical surveys have shown that, in the first half of 2004 alone, a total of 42,500 events with 3.2 million participants were held on the Spree.
A great place to shop
Berlin is also a rapidly developing city when it comes to shopping. With Ku'damm (Kurfürstendamm), Friedrichstraße and Potsdamer Platz it boasts three different shopping centres.
The Kurfürstendamm, a magnificent boulevard which extends for 3.5 km from the Memorial church to Halensee, has something for everyone: from the famous department store Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) over the Europa-Center to the many international fashion boutiques, restaurants and cafés. During the mild summer nights, this part of Berlin (like so many others) stays open 24 hours.
Closing times are practically unknown and visitors to the 'Athens on the Spree' can savour the delights of its cosmopolitan character to the full. And to lend them a helping hand, there are approximately 6,000 restaurants to suit all possible tastes.
In addition to Ku'damm, Friedrichstraße and the attractive boulevard 'Unter den Linden' in the former East Berlin are very nice places to go for a stroll, too. On Potsdamer Platz there are now around 130 shops on the DaimlerChrysler site which opened on 2 October 1998. All three shopping centres are directly connected by the underground line U2.
Wolfram Bielenstein
Monday, June 27 - 2005 at 16:53 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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