Fresh off celebrating the 25-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (in 2014), the German capital remains a place whose past and present are tightly intertwined. It's a massive city — both geographically (the urban sprawl is about eight times the size of Paris) and emotionally — to take in.
Many first-time visitors stick closely to Mitte, the district located in the former East where a lot of the new development post-1989 happened. Today, this neighborhood, which comprises Museum Islan...