Berlin

 

Berlin is the capital of Germany. One of the coolest parts of the city is Museum Island, also home to the Berlin Cathedral.

The current Berlin Cathedral was built at the turn of the 20th century by Emperor William II.

It is the largest Protestant church in Germany.

You probably don't want this guy to write your name down.

King Frederick I's tomb from 1713

The Altes Museum is one of the history museums on Museum Island.

A griffin on a Greek amphora from the 600s BC

A Roman amphora with an "Equestrian Chorus" from the 500s BC

A Roman statue of a greyhound

The museum has a beautiful painted interior.

Some of Priam's Treasure from Troy. The Soviet's stole most of it and took it back to Russia after WWII.

Cypriot vases from the 700s to the 400s BC

Statue of Hor-sa-Tutu, a Polemic general

Akhenaten and Nefertiti

The Crown of Kerch, from Crimea during the time of the barbarian invasion of the Roman Empire. It probably belonged to the Huns.

Bones from the oldest battlefield in Europe. At least 120 people died in a valley in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern around 1300 BC.

Gold German pagan sun hats are the best.

Bronze Age war horns

A mosaic from Byzantine Ravenna

An epic battle

A chariot gambling machine from Constantinople

St. Simeon the Stylites

I wonder if I can 3D print this...

Isle of the Dead, 1883, Arnold Bocklin

A portrait of Piccolomini, Sienese general of the Holy Roman Empire.

A warning of plague from 17th century Augsburg

Berlin lights up at night.

The area around the Reichstag is very pleasant.

The Reichstag was not fixed back up until the fall of the Berlin Wall.

There was a COVID protest of some sort going on in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

The location of the Fuhrerbunker is now a parking lot.

A German Katamari

Charlottenburg Palace is located in the western part of Berlin.

Augustus the Strong of Poland, Frederick I of Prussia, and Frederick IV of Denmark meet in 1709.

Charlottenburg was built by Friedrich I's wife, Sophie Charlotte

Friedrich was the Elector of Brandenburg, but later crowned himself King "in" Prussia.

The original amber room (not this room) was made for Charlottenburg, but was given to Peter the Great in 1716.

The palace did not receive much use after the 1700s.

We also visited Sanssouci, King Frederick the Great's palace in Potsdam , outside Berlin.

It was built in the 1740s to help Frederick escape the stuffy and crowded royal court.

Frederick's flute, awaiting Lizzo's arrival

Evidence points to Frederick being a homosexual, and him having many trysts at Sanssouci.

Sanssouci is French for "without worries."

Old Fritz

A palace worthy of the King in Prussia and the King of Prussia.

Frederick is buried next to Sanssouci.

An epic approach

Frederick's Temple of Friendship, a tribute to famous gay couples from Greek mythology

The New Palace at Potsdam. Potsdam was the favored residence of the Hohenzollern royals until their rule came to an end after World War I.

Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam was the last palace built by the House of Hohenzollern and was the location of the Potsdam Conference at the end of World War II.

Stalin was here.

The table that birthed the modern world order.

We stayed in the Radisson Blu Berlin before the giant aquarium in the middle of it exploded.

Pray to your cat god.