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Find the wall & Berlinstartup signs

The Wall was mostly demolished in 1990 although a restored stretch remains along the southern border of Wedding and Mitte. So check “Checkpoint Charlie”, the famous east-west border control during the Cold War and centre for comprehensive display boards telling the Wall’s story. For more of a visual history, take a walk along the Wall by the Spree, where it runs between the Freidrichshain-Kreuzberg districts. Watchout for berlinstartup signs, loft complexes and graffiti. Most of them has been removed from the northern section of the Wall, the one-mile stretch known as the East Side Gallery is dedicated to art and preserves the paintings made on the eastern side when the Wall was brought down. Although attempting to preserve the spirit of the time, an argument blew up when the restoration project of recent years was seen to overstep the mark, with original artworks being painted over without the artists’ permission