News in Berlin

The World Cup Final - All eyes upon France and Italy

Every football fan in the world awaits the Sunday's final match between France and Italy. These two teams have a history of meeting at the finals, so everything is possible.
On Saturday Germany and Portugal will set the honorary third and fourth place.
Since the teams have usually the same colours, FIFA has set that Italy will wear the blue, and France - the white.

FIFA also revealed the candidates for the Adidas Golden Ball Award. These are: Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Zinedine Zidane, Michael Ballack, Miroslav Klose, Gianluigi Buffon, Fabio Cannavaro, Andrea Pirlo, and Gianluca Zambrotta.

Over 400 000 people visited Berlin in February!

In February Berlin was visited by approximately 417 000 people, who booked over 800 000 beds what is 9% more comparing with February 2005. Over 30% of the guests came from the foreign countries, what is 22% increase. The guests stayed in Berlin average 2 days informs Statistischen Landesamtes.

Does it mean that during holiday Berlin will experience invasion of tourists?

26th May – opening of new “Berliner Hauptbanhof”

After 8 years build the station will be finally opened. The new railway station was built on the site of Lehrter station. The project included also the upgrade of five other stations in Berlin area and new north-south connection with 3.5 kilometers tunnel under Tiergarten. Official opening will take place on 26th May. Regular train connection will be run on 28th May. The investment will reduce journey time through Berlin especially from the direction Leipzig and Dresden.

Welcome to Berlin

Hello everyone,

My name is Marek, let me be your guide in Berlin - the capital of the biggest country in European Union.

Berlin has very long and complicated history. It was established in 13th century. Nowadays Berlin is one of the fastest developing cities in Europe. After the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the city started to change its face. Many buildings were destroyed or rebuilt. Berlin is also one of the most important European cultural centres.

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