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4.3
Next to the stylish ambiance you can enjoy great cocktails made with high-end ingredients and great care at the CSA Bar.
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Karl Marx Allee
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Karl Marx Allee is one of Berlin's most monumental streets, a grand socialist boulevard lined with imposing East German architecture. Stretching through Friedrichshain, Karl Marx Allee was built as a showcase of the GDR, its wide lanes flanked by workers' palaces. This overview gathers Berlin locations along the avenue.
The sweeping facades and twin towers around Frankfurter Tor are a striking example of Stalinist design, and the boulevard now holds cafes, cinemas and shops. The historic Kino International and Cafe Moskau recall the street's heyday, and its scale still impresses. It offers a vivid lesson in Cold War Berlin.
Browse the venues below to explore Karl Marx Allee and its surroundings.
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4.2
The historical Kino International on Alexanderplatz celebrates New Year's on 5 floors. Highlight: a view through the big glass window front and HipHop in the Honecker Lounge.
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4.1
Strausberger Platz is one of Berlin's photo spots with the clearest visual axis: two high-rises, each with 14 floors, conclude the 90-meter-wide stretch of Karl-Marx-Allee, surrounded by 1950s 'wedding cake style' architecture. The square is a garden monument. The Floating Ring water feature is currently dismantled. Redesign is planned for 2027 to 2029.
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