THEEast Side Gallery in Berlin is nothing more than an open-air exhibition of works of art. The East Side Gallery is a piece of the Berlin Wall to be precise 1,3km of Muro remained standing in the German city where young artists gathered at different times to make this wall a work of art.
The art exhibition on the bank of the river Spree, in the district of Friedrichshain is the longest continuous section of Muro that still exists. If you want you can walk the entire line of the wall, much of it no longer visible, with one of the cycling routes which retraces the entire line. Something to do at least once in a lifetime also because between one stretch of the wall and the next there are also interesting points of study that explain the story, as no one has ever told it to us. Immediately after the Wall fell, the East Side Gallery was painted by 118 artists from 21 countries.
Over the years, many paintings in the East Side Gallery have been damaged by the elements. In 2009, 40 of the most affected paintings were restored so that if you happened to be in Berlin today, you would certainly see the works "refurbished". Between those most photographed certainly the Trabant car, the car of the German People's Republic on a blue background, but also the socialist kiss of Honecker and Breschnew.
