May 24: Berlin – Siegessäule
Eventually the Bremer Weg was interrupted by a vast radial road intersection, the Großer Stern (Great Star), at the center of which stands the Siegessäule (Victory Column), a storied monument dating back to the late 19th century.
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There are underground tunnels leading from head houses around the Großer Stern to the Siegessäule, in order to separate pedestrian access to the monument from the multiple-lane rotary traffic. This is a wall detail from one of the head houses, with these curious patches in the stone.
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There it is. This is the view from the east; the golden statue of Victoria faces west, out toward the continuation of the Straße des 17. Juni.
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The color contrast is intense! Are those pockmarks from bullets? Is that what the patches are repairing?
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On the way to the tunnel, Loboloco.eu awaits.
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There were some serious dub techno echoes to be had in these long tunnels.
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I guess this is the back entrance.
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A zoom of the arcade at the top of the column (i.e. the columns at the top of the, uh, column) and the intense mosaic behind it.
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Approaching liftoff!
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Well done on the alignment with the boulevard, yo.
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The dark side of the Säule.
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A double one-point perspective! (Straße des 17. Juni, left, and Altonaer Straße, right.)
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That is a ton of sleek streetlights.
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Seed fuzzies aloft.
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Back to the depths.
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Vividly. RT @Horse_ebooks Remember when you loved a tree...
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Apparently some disagree about ein starkes Europa being im deutschen Interesse. Probably, as I write in 2012, more do.