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Berlin’s best known landmark: das Brandenburger Tor, the Brandenburg Gate. Designed by Carl G. Langhans, the only Berlin city gate still standing was built in 1788-91. The horse-and-chariot sculpture atop the Brandenburg Gate is known as the “Quadriga.” Heavily damaged in the war, a restored Quadriga was reinstalled above the renovated gate in 1958. Following German reunification, the Brandenburg Gate, closed off by the Wall since 1961, was officially reopened on Dec. 22, 1989. Both the gate and the Quadriga underwent a second extensive refurbishment in 1991. This view, taken in July 1998, looks west from the Pariser Platz towards the Victory Column (Siegessäule) in the distance. (Another view of the Gate.)

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