Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Worth a detour·Berlin, Germany
Interesting
What it is
Peter Eisenman’s field of 2,711 concrete slabs near the Brandenburg Gate, with an information center underneath.
Pair it with
Worth a detour or better, within a 15-minute walk. Numbers match the map.
- 1Brandenburg Gate300 m · Free
- 2Memorial to Europe’s Sinti and Roma Murdered Under Nazism500 m · Free
Too little too late, Berlin should be ashamed this didn’t open until 2012
Skip Checkpoint Charlie (1.1 km), even if you’re passing: “Way too commercialized”