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Kurfuerstendamm

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The world-renowned and famous Kurfürstendamm, by Berlin citizens casually called Ku'damm, is Berlin's best-loved strolling and shopping street. It is an around 3,5km long and 53m wide street from the Gedächtnis-Church and the Europa-Center to Halensee and offers everything that one expects of a boulevard. Department stores, many specialised shops and elegant boutiques, hotels, restaurants, bars, cinemas and theatres turn the Ku'damm into an experience. The area around the Kurfürstendamm is Berlin's most important urban centre.

Modern new buildings and rebuilding of time-honoured palatial houses, of the Wilhelminian style, for instance, former cinemas into modern shopping palaces made the Ku'damm again to Berlin's splendour street and luxury-fashion-mile. Cartier, Chanel, Valentino, Gucci and other exclusive names like Zara, Bulgari, Lacoste, Bogner, René Lezard, Aigner, Yves Saint Laurent have settled at the Ku'damm. On the boulevard with its many green zones and the great parking options, strolling and shopping can be done quite peacefully. And the investment goes on.

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The 16-floor glass high-rise building, was newly built after plans by architect Helmut Jahn at the corner Joachimsthaler Straße in the place of the Café Kranzler and department store bilka. The CityQuarter Neues Kranzler Eck offers with more than 20 individual shops like Gerry Weber, Strauss Innovation and a hotel a wide range.

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The well-loved Café Kranzler, today under monumental protection, with its red and white rotunda and once lively coffee house business and its tables on the boulevard where delectable cakes and gateau were served, was in the 1950ties a sign of Berlin's prosperity. A place to see and be seen. It is back today, as a Café-Bar on the upper floor of the Kranzler-Eck and continues the tradition of the legendary coffeehouse.

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Opposite, also newly created, is the new Kudamm-Eck, in the place of the old passage-building from the 1970ties. It houses the department store C&A and a hotel. Again to be seen from far is the integrated media-wall, as well as at the old Kudamm-Eck. Above it is the sculpture-ensemble 'The verdict of Paris,' created by the artist Markus Lüpertz.



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