MacKat in Ireland

Just south of the Brandenburg Gate lies Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, or more simply, their Holocaust Memorial.  It consists of 2,711 concrete blocks taking up an entire city block.  Some are all the way into the ground, some are 12 feet high.  The architect picked the number 2711 at random because […]

The Brandenburg Gate is one of 18 original gates to the city of Berlin, built around 1734, but it’s the only one remaining.  The statue on top was taken to Paris by Napoleon in the early 19th century but the Berliners took it back when Napoleon fell a few years later.  Upon return the olive […]