Festival of Lights Berlin

Come to Berlin and experience  fantastic light shows all through the city center.
This year more than 60 sights, squares and buildings in Berlin will be amazingly illuminated during the coming two weeks. If you visit Berlin during this time, go for sightseeing by night!!!!

All major sights like Brandenburg Gate, Berliner Dom and the TV Tower are being put in a different artistic light. For a list of all illumated sights and buildings klick here.

The Festival kick off will be held at Potsdamer Platz, at the new festival centre. The city Mayor Klaus Wowereit will be there to open the festival.

This is a must do for all (hobby) photographers wo will be strolling around the Berlin sights at night with camera and tripod to shoot some really unique pics of Germanys beautiful capital.
More than 60 Berlin buildings and landmarks are atmospherically illuminated during the Festival of Lights 2010. The festival centre DomAquarée, the TV Tower, the boulevard Unter den Linden, the Brandenburg Gate and the Funkturm are just some spectacular highlights in the Festival of Lights 2010. Many more unique illuminations at a high artistic level are waiting for you to see!
From the 13th until 24 October, Berlin will sparkle as a range of illuminations and projections light up more than 60 famous landmarks and spaces.

Special “lightseeing” tours on the Light-Liner bus, by boat on the Light-Ship, on foot with the Light-Cruso or by rickshaw with the Light-Velo will give locals and visitors alike the chance to experience the creative compositions up close.
Complementary to the festival, there will be numerous cultural events dealing with the subject “light”. On the 16th of Oktober, for instance, the night of open doors takes place. This offers visitors a chance to actually go inside some of the illuminated buildings and offers a look behind the scenes. Klick here to find out which buildings will be open for a visit. For a programm of the festival check the festival homepage HERE.

Furthermore there is an amazing Jazz Feast, Jazz at the Minister Gardens, on October 22nd and a spectacular Finish on Oktober 23rd, the CITY LIGHT RUN!

Have fun exploring Berlin by night!

Still looking for a nice place to stay in Berlin, stop looking and check out the EastSeven Berlin Hostel website.

Festival of Lights Berlin

More than 40 sights, squares and buildings in Berlin will be fantasticly illuminated during this coming two weeks.

All major sights like Brandenburg Gate, Berliner Dom and the TV Tower are being put in a different artistic light.

This is a must do for all (hobby) photographers wo will be strolling around the Berlin sights at night with camera and tripod to shoot some really unique pics of Germanys beautiful capital.
More than 50 Berlin buildings and landmarks are atmospherically illuminated during the Festival of Lights 2009. The festival centre DomAquarée, the TV Tower, the boulevard Unter den Linden, the Brandenburg Gate and the Funkturm are just some spectacular highlights in the Festival of Lights 2009. Many more unique illuminations at a high artistic level are waiting for you to see!
The Festival kicks off with a spectacular opening ceremony. From the 14th until 25 October, Berlin will sparkle as a range of illuminations and projections light up more than 50 famous landmarks and spaces.  For the first time, the landmark Europa-Center, as well as Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the west of the city will be illuminated.

Special “lightseeing” tours on the Light-Liner bus, by boat on the Light-Ship, on foot with the Light-Cruso or by rickshaw with the Light-Velo will give locals and visitors alike the chance to experience the creative compositions up close.

Have fun exploring Berlin by night!

Still looking for a nice place to stay in Berlin, stop looking and check out the EastSeven Berlin Hostel website.

A piece of the Berlin Wall

…an amazing street theatre event, from 1-4 October in the streets of Berlin, FREE of charge!!

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall the legendary French street theatre company Royal the Luxe, in cooperation with the Berliner Festspiele, will present this gigantic open air event.
On their way through Berlin  two marionettes Little Giantess and Big Giant, which measure up to 15 metres in height,will be telling out a fairy tale about a reunion after years of separation.
The Little Giantess and the Big Giant, created by the legendary French street theatre company Royal de Luxe, will amaze and astonish Berlin’s people and visitors and shall resurrect this moment in world history and the overwhelming emotions of 1989. The giant puppets will pass by significant Berlin sites – such as Unter den Linden, Brandenburg Gate, Hauptbahnhof and Straße des 17. Juni. As last seen in London (2006) and Santiago de Chile (2007), Royal de Luxe will move and enthuse millions of people in the German capital.

Directed by Jean Luc Courcoult
When: 1 to 4 October 2009
Daily app. 10:00 – 12:00 and 15:00 – 18:00

Theatre Spectacle in Celebration of the 20th Anniversary
of the Fall of the Berlin Wall –>Open air and free admission

Route of the Giants:
Rotes Rathaus, Unter den Linden, Bebelplatz, Lustgarten, Hauptbahnhof, Straße des 17. Juni, Pariser Platz,
Brandenburger Tor

(text: riesen-in-berlin.de)

For visualisation of the route klick HERE

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