How much does it cost to go to Berlin Wall?

Though admission into the memorial is free, hourlong guided tours cost 3.50 euros (or about $3.75) for adults. Many recent visitors recommended taking a guided tour to fully grasp the historical significance of the memorial (tours are available in English).



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Admission is free and you do not need a ticket to visit any parts of the Memorial. Both the visitor and documentation centers offer free toilets and there is a small cafe located next to the Documentation Center.

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You'd be hard pressed to find a piece of concrete as historically significant as the Berlin Wall. No trip to Berlin would be complete without a tour of what remains of that infamous concrete barrier constructed by the East German goverment over 150 km long around the capitalist island of West Berlin.

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The Kiss: My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love While the real lip-lock took place in 1979, it's been immortalised in graffiti since 1990 by Dmitri Vrubel, on the fallen Berlin Wall. Entitled, ?'My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love', you'll find it at #25 on the East Side Gallery.

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The East side of the Berlin Wall was where the German Democratic Republic (GDR) stood. In the eyes of the GDR government, this side represented their vision of a socialist state and was deemed the “free” side to people living under their regime.

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In 1961, the SED began adding additional obstacles to the border, expanding the Wall into a complex multi-layered system of barriers. In the West, the border strip was referred to as the “death strip” because so many people were killed there while trying to escape.

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Having experienced great losses as a result of German invasions in the First and Second World Wars, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin preferred that a defeated Germany be dismembered and divided so that it could not rise to its former strength to threaten European peace and security again.

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