Insight Guides: Pocket Berlin by Insight Guides

Author:Insight Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Germany
Publisher: APA
Published: 2016-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

Statue in the grounds of the palace

Chris Coe/Apa Publications

Olympic Stadium

Built for the Games of 1936, Hitler’s Olympiastadion º [map] (www.olympiastadion-berlin.de) was spared bom­bard­ment, to serve as head­quarters for the British Army. The structure’s bombastic gigantism is an eloquent testimony to the Führer’s taste in architecture. Viewed from the main Olympic Gate, it appears surprisingly ‘low slung’ until you see that the field itself has been sunk 12m (40ft) below ground level. The 74,000-­capacity stadium still stages sporting events, and is open daily to the public at other times (9am–8pm in summer, 10am–4pm in winter). The stadium was modernised in 2006 in preparation for the football World Cup.

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