Unter den Linden & Brandburg Gate

Those 3 pics are showing the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor in german) and the boulevard Unter den Linden.

The Brandenburger Tor - I decided to write just once the english name and will continue with the german name - was buildt between 1788 and 1791 and is the National Symbol of Germany. If you come to Europe and have a coin with that symbol on it's backside you will definitly know that your coin is from Germany. The gate was buildt because it should remember of the Wars of Frederick II. the Great of Prussia (1712-1786), the most well known King of all Prussian Kings.

During the Cold war in the 2oth century it was a symbol for the devided city. When US-President Kennedy visited Berlin in the 1960's he was not able to see the whole building as it was behin the Berlin Wall (german: Berliner Mauer). Nowadays it is a symbol the german-german reunion.