Kreuzberg: Street Art & Counterculture
Kreuzberg is Berlin's beating heart of counterculture, and it has been for half a century. Once a forgotten corner of West Berlin pressed against the Wall, it became a haven for punks who needed cheap rent, Turkish immigrants who built a community from nothing, squatters who turned abandoned hospitals into art galleries, and DJs who invented techno in empty railway halls. Today, its streets are an open-air gallery of murals and graffiti covering entire building facades, its cafés serve the best döner kebab outside Istanbul (invented HERE in Berlin, not Turkey!), and its legendary nightclubs have shaped global electronic music. Walk past the world's longest open-air gallery painted on the Wall, cross a fairy-tale Gothic bridge that once divided East from West, and discover why this chaotic, beautiful, defiantly uncommon neighborhood is the Berlin that Berliners love most.
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