From an empty wasteland to a bustling nightlife district: this is Potsdamer Platz in the heart of the city. Two angels walk over a big gray square, a huge empty wasteland in the middle of the city, only one wall is in nowhere. Skyscrapers tower into the sky, bustle everywhere, people stroll through a shopping center, go to the movies and sit in the café. If you see the movie "The Sky over Berlin" from 1987 and look at today's Potsdamer Platz, then you can hardly imagine that it is one and the same place. On the former empty space, traversed by the Berlin Wall, a vibrant new district has emerged after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A must for your visit to Berlin, because here are numerous restaurants, cinemas, theaters, shopping centers and new architecture. The Potsdamer Platz today Actually, the name Potsdamer Platz is inaccurate. It actually only designates the place next to the Leipziger Platz but it has become natural for the Berliners to mean the whole area with Potsdamer Platz. Popular points of contact for shopping are the Potsdamer Platz arcades with their numerous shops. To the panorama point in the Kollhof building you whiz up with the fastest elevator in Europe, from there it offers a magnificent view of Berlin's skyline. The Legoland® Discovery Center Berlin with around four million Lego bricks is great fun for the whole family.
