The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: beside the cultural center 1 segment In 2006 the city council of Sofia would have liked to have a Wall segment for the extension of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism. The German Federal Government followed to the wish and donated a segment. Click to enlarge: Photo above and background:© by Svetla Encheva. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA […]
Location: private property 1 segment In addition to his job for the Flanders Expo, Lode Anseel is an avid photographer and Berlin-traveler. This passion led him repeatedly to the German capital, where he witnessed the fall of the Wall almost live. In the mid-1990s he could persuade his employer to acquire a Wall segment. At the […]
Location: Flanders Expo, main entrance 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Every year more than a million visitors come to the Flanders Expo, a trade fair and conference center on the outskirts of Ghent. Since 1998 there is a Wall segment standing close to the main entrance, clearly visible to all visitors. The Wall segment came here by initiative of the […]
Location: Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Casteau near Mons 1 segment Mons originated from the founding of a monastery in the 7th century at the foot of a ruinb by the holy Waltrudis. Later, the city owed its prosperity especially the cloth industry and ultimately the coal mining industry. Since 1967, the Supreme […]
Location: Post-bllok/Bulevardi Dëshmorët e Kombit 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz The Dëshmorët e Kombit Boulevard (Albanian for Boulevard of the Martyrs of the Nation) is an avenue of the Albanian capital Tirana. Here are some ministries located, as well as the National Gallery, the Pyramid of Tirana, the University and smaller parks. At the southern end […]