Hallo!
Guten tag!
Today we're at the event which is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This event is called "Lichtgrenze" which means "Border of Light".
A very nice name that represents 8000 poles, with illuminated balloons, going through 15 kilometers in the city right where the Berlin Wall used to be.
Exactly. For those who are unaware, the Berlin Wall divided the city for 28 years during the Cold War.
Today we'll go all this way to show you where this border is going.
Let's take a look!
To begin our journey, we arrived in Bornholmerstraße.
Here used to be one of the checkpoints to pass from East Germany to West Germany (and the other way around) and this was the first checkpoint to fall by popular pressure on the 9th of November, 1989.
Here we will start our walk, which will take us through the path of the wall. Let's take a look.
We arrived at the second relevant point according to the organization f the event.
Here is the Mauerpark, which  translates to "Wall Park".
Yes. Here used to be a Death Strip, between the two walls. People who tried to flee were shot to death, that's why it has this cute name. #irony
Let's continue our journey.
We are now in another relevant point in this path we are traveling: the Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer, which is the Memorial to the Berlin Wall.
Exactly. Here in this region there are 60 meters representation of how the wall was, in addition to watchtowers and other things.
In these relevant point, the organization exposed screens that show scenes of divided Berlin and show news of the time. And they all have subtitles in English, which is an interesting thing.
And here, behind us, there is this church, which is a tribute to an old church that was on the way to the wall and was torn down mercilessly.
We will continue our path.
Freedom.
Now our journey  has brought us to Potsdamer Platz, which has always been a place with a very heavy flow of people and traffic.
But not during the Cold War era, when the Wall was here in the middle and stopped this whole flow.
We arrived in the final stretch of our journey: the East Side Gallery!
Here is the largest outdoor art gallery in the world. And also the biggest part of what remained of the wall in Berlin.
And it's also the end of the 15km path that we walked during the day.
It has been many, many hours and many kilometres, but we won.
The next day...
During this weekend of celebrations, Berlin received more than 1 million visitors.
The thrill of witnessing a nation celebrate their union and freedom, in this "big party vibe", but at the same time with respect to the victims of the wall is unexplainable.
While the balloons were released, they ceased to shine and so we had a feeling that little by little, the wall disappeared, never to return.
"It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets." (Luc Besson)
"Now what belongs together will grow together." (Willy Brandt)
"I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved." (Lucy Walker)
