The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: at the edges of Vatican Gardens 1 segment from Waldemarstraße Born in Rome in 1952, Marco Piccininni descended from a prestigious industrial family with good contacts into the Vatican. Thus, it is well to explain that Piccininni donated a segment, which he auctioned in Monte Carlo in 1990, to Pope John Paul II in the same year. […]
Location: Garden of Malteser Caritas Hilfsdienst 2 segments Hungary was the first country to open the Iron Curtain in May 1989. Thousands of East German refugees sought shelter in the German Embassy in Budapest in the summer of 1989. As more and more people crowded there and wanted to force exit permit to the West, a […]
Location: House of Terror 1 segment Since November 2010, a Wall segment is standing in front of the House of Terror in Budapest as a memorial memorial for breaking down walls and overcoming borders. The House of Terror is dedicated to the victims of totalitarian rule. The building has a memorable past: 1880 initially built as […]
Location: Parque de la Libertad fragments (parts of a 5-piece ensemble from Sevilla) These fragments in Utrera are originally part of an ensemble which was exhibited in Sevilla during the EXPO ’92. After the end of the EXPO the brothers Luis and Ramon Gonzales Parreño asked for the smaller parts to displaying them in Utrera. […]
Location: Isla Magica 2 segments (remaining parts of a 5-piece ensemble) from Potsdamer Platz The first EXPO (world exhibition) after the Fall of the Wall took place in Sevilla in 1992. Some parts of the Berlin Wall were exhibited in the German Pavillon. Visitors were invited to take photos through the gap in the Wall.Originally the […]
Location: Parque Europe 1 segment London Bridge, Eiffel Tower, Fontana di Trevi, Brandenburg Gate – these and much more are just a few meters away from each other in the Parque Europe. In the leisure park just outside Madrid are replicas of landmarks from all over Europe. In addition, the Parque Europe includes an impressive and sumptuous diversity […]
Location: Parque de Berlin 3 segments That cities sometimes have a life of their own, shows up again and again: Years ago in Berlin a unknown metro station was found during construction work. It was not recorded in any of the existing plans. In Madrid, no one can’t remember when the Wall segments came to […]
Location: Bay of Vedella (private property) 1 segment from Waldemarstraße, Kreuzberg Olaf Stölt is one of several German-Russians who settled down permanently on the Balearic island. To bring the recent German history to life, especially for his children born there, he bought a Wall segment with a graffito by Kiddy Citny. The segment is from a pool […]
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Location: Trelleborg Museum 1 segment As a child, Carsten Bredlau from Berlin often spent his school holidays in Sweden with the children’s airlift. The children’s airlift was an institution of the US Air Force supported by the International Red Cross to allow children from West Berlin outdoor holidays in the postwar period. The British and the […]