Today is Unification Day in Germany, and it 35 years since the wall came down in Berlin.
Therefore, their extra parkrun day is today, and we are here to do the Berlin Hasenheide parkrun.
It was a nice route round a big park on the outskirts of the city and we finished in 44th and 89th place.
We decided to walk back into town taking in a nice looking bridge that I saw on Google.
Along the way we came to a watch tower that had been preserved as a reminder of the past.
The rest of the area has been redeveloped and the wall removed, but in it's day it was a command centre for other observation towers that were erected every 300 metres.
We walked on through an area where almost every building was covered in graffiti on the ground floor, and this one also had a fantastic map of the world on its front.
Then we crossed the bridge that I had seen online and walked from the old west Germany into the old east Germany.
This is where we got a big surprise. There was a long wall with loads of great graffiti and eventually we realised that it was actually the Berlin wall.
The area was called the East Side Gallery, and is the longest open air gallery in the world.
In early 1990 artists painted over 100 murals on the East side of the wall to show their joy that the two countries had been reunited peacefully.
In 1991 this section of the wall was declared a national monument and this is the reason that it is still standing. It is 1.3 kilometres long, and covered in graffiti.
Part way along is a little door that was knocked through the wall.
Between 1963 and 1989 this wall was an inner barrier, then behind it was a 20 metre open space, then another wall, and then the river over to west Germany. If anyone made it over the top then guards were patrolling ready to shoot them before they could try to scale the second wall.
It is all very pleasant now though and lots of people were walking the whole length and enjoying the art.
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