Today it is a vast open plaza with shops and department stores around it. There was a Scottish military music performance group advertising the Berlin Tattoo performances and a sidewalk artist working on a drawing - Halloween maybe?
The TV tower built in 1969, is also at Alexanderplatz, and can be seen from all over Berlin.
After lunch at the Galeria Kaufhof department store - wonderful restaurant on the top floor - we looked around a bit more before we went to the Brandenburg Gate with the quadriga sculpture - symbol of Berlin. So much history here - hard to take it all in.
Later we came back to our neighborhood - and found that, even though the transportation system is excellent, we need to allow time to get places! This is the Wittenbergplatz station for the underground train, about a block from the apartment, and bus stops are nearby.
Nice shops and big stores, too -
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