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var n1='The Brandenburger Tor(The Brandenburg Gate) is one of the world &apost;s most famous monuments. The most famous gate of Berlin was from 1961 to 1985 the symbol of the division of the country.
On August 13, 1961 construction work on the Berlin Wall began. Precisely around that monument were the reopening of the borders between the two Germanies and gargantuan celebrations in 1989 when the two Germanies were united. It was also the site of many other events in German history. It was where Prussian troops celebrated their great victories of 1815 and 1871. Nazi storm troopers held torch-lit marches there to celebrate Hitler&apost;s assumption of power in 1933. Created in the 17th century at the beginning of the reign of Frederick William , period of reconstruction, during which Friedrich II made Prussia into a European power and laid the foundation for flourishing trade and crafts. The gate thus is also a memorial for the king who died a few years before its construction. The gate is crowned with a quadriga ,a huge bronze group of the goddess Nike on her chariot, "who brings peace", marching into the city. In 1806 Napoleon marched triumphantly into Berlin and carried the Quadriga away with him to Paris as a war booty. On its return, in 1814, Karl Friedrich Schinkel transformed Nike into a personification of German Victory, bearing the new military decoration, the iron cross, changing the figure"s interpretation from a courier of peace into a goddess of victory and wearing a wreath with the Prussian eagle. These attributes were removed when the Quadriga was recast in the 1950s, but reinstated during repair work carried out following damage sustained in the 1989 celebrations.';
var n6="The Reichstag was built from 1849 to 1889 according to the plans of architect Paul Wallot under Emperor William II. This building cost around 30 million gold marks. The frontage above the door bears a dedication : "To the German people" which was added in 1916.
Seat of the Parliament on several occasions and situated in the centre of the city, it witnessed the major historic events : for example the Weimar Republic was proclaimed in 1918 from one of its windows. The Nazis used it to come to power. They took advantage of the fire of 1933. They persecuted the communists and all the opponents to the new regime. After the fire, the Reichstag was rebuilt, only after its almost total destruction during the WWII.";
n5="The Buddy Bear Berlin Show is a public art event. Bears are designed with a great amount of imagination to conquer the hearts of Berliners and visitors. A bear in Berlin is a heraldic figure, an animal which is loved by children and adults.
The bear-sculptures have been specially created by sculptors and individually hand-painted for this city event. The buddy bear have become good ambassadors for Berlin. For example, city officials have presented buddy bears as gifts to the mayors of Rome and Prague. Also in the United States, the city of Houston/Texas features a buddy bear from Berlin since October 2001. A buddy bear hand painted by a well-known Berlin artist was presented to the City of New York as an expression of friendship and gratitude felt by the Berliners towards the American people and as a symbol of our solidarity. The Buddy Bear Show on the one hand is to make Berlin a happier and more colorful place and to enjoy Berliners and tourists alike, and on the other hand aims to provide a symbol of peaceful cohabitation, tolerance and understanding between the people through the world.";
n10="The Unter den Linden is the historical main street of Berlin and one of Europe's best known boulevards, 1400 m long and 60 m wide, stretches from east to west between the former Lustgarten and the Brandenburger gate. A boulevard of linden trees was planted from 1647.
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n8="Alte Bibliothek (Old Library). The building with the curved facade was the first independent library structure in Berlin and was built to house the Royal Book Collection.The Old Library was gutted by fire in 1945; only the enclosing walls survived, was reconstructed to its historical appearance in 1963-69. It is now home to the Humboldt's law faculty.
Deutsche Staatsoper (The Royal Opera) was the first free-standing theater building outside of an aristocratic palace. Designed in the Prussian classical style and erected between 1741 and 1743 as a Court Opera House for Frederick the Great. Turned into a theatre with dress and upper circles in 1788. It was twice nearly completely destroyed by devastating fire in the year 1843 and bombing in the Second World War, reconstructed in 1951-55.";
n12="Humboldt-Universitat (The Humboldt University) was founded in Berlin in 1810.The chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann, the physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, the mathematicians Ernst Kummer, Leopold Kronecker, Karl Theodor Weierstrass and the medical scientists Johannes Müller and Rudolf Virchow became known in their specialist areas far beyond the university in Berlin. A total of 29 Nobel Prize winners did some of their scientific work at the university in Berlin, including Albert Einstein, Emil Fischer, Max Planck and Fritz Haber. And many famous people such as Heinrich Heine, Adelbert von Chamisso, Ludwig Feuerbach, Otto von Bismarck, Karl Liebknecht, Franz Mehring, Alice Salomon, Karl Marx and Kurt Tucholsky were also enrolled at the 'Alma mater' of Berlin.
Heinrich Mann was the first honorary doctor of the university after the end of the Second World War. From 1949, the university bore the names of the brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt.";
n4="Neue Wache serves as a 'Memorial for the Fallen of the War'. The remains of unknown soldier and unknown concentration camp victim are buried inside with earth from Buchenwald and Mauthausen as well as from the battlefields of Stalingrad, EI Alamein and Normandy.
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n3='The Altes Museum in the Lustgarten "Leisure Garden" is the one of first buildings in Europe to have been constructed expressly as an museum. This extensive museum complex built by Karl Friedrich Schinkel from 1824-30. It is among the oldest, artistically most significant architectural works of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. It The entire length of attic facing the Leisure Garden carries the inscription: "FRIDERICUS GUILELMUS III STUDIO ANTIQUITATIS OMNIGENIAE ET ARTIUM LIBERALIUM MUSEUM CONSTITUIT MDCCCXXVIII" ("Friedrich Wilhelm III dedicated this museum to the study of all antiquity and liberal arts in 1828").
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n9='Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathedral) was constructed from 1893 to 1905 by Julius Carl and Otto Raschdorff as the high parish church, the cathedral and the state most important Protestant church and to serve as the sepulcher of the Hohenzollern dynasty.
The "Fernsehturm, has built between 1965 and 1969 and become one of the symbols of the city of Berlin. The spherical top of the tower has a diameter of 32 meters. The gigantic TV tower is 365 meters high and the second highest structure in Europe, it opens a tremendous up to 40km view from the observation platform, which is reached by a very fast lift. The "Deutsche Telekom" has its head offices there.';
n7='The Neptunbrunnen is a large late nineteenth-century fountain showing the sea god surrounded by creatures from his kingdom.
Alexanderplatz. The square was a regular cattle and wool market, later named after Tsar Alexander I visited Berlin in 1805, in order to steel an alliance against France with the king of Prussia. At the GDR time it was heart of the socialist city. Universal clock "Urania" shows the time of all the major cities in the world.';
n2='The "Rotes Rathaus".The previous town hall was built in 1300 on the same site, this one was constructed in the neo-Romanesque style between 1861 and 1869, it houses the Berlin city government since October 1991. It has been nicknamed the "red town hall" because it had a 97 meter high belfry and it is built of red bricks. It represents the eclectic taste prevalent during the 19th cent. in the field of architecture. It is a grand Historicist building of the 1860s, influenced by Italian, Flemish and North German medieval architecture. A terracotta frieze above the ground-floor windows illustrates the history of the city in 36 panels.
Nikolaikirche (Nicolai Church), Berlin first stone church constructed around 1230, converted to basilica at end of thirteenth century; The Nikolaikirche designates the heart of Berlin, marking the location where the city was founded. During the Second World War the church suffered heavy damage, reconstruction began in 1985 for the 750th anniversary of the city.
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