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Berlin: Brandenburg Gate The landmark Brandenburger Tor - the only surviving city gate - marks the western terminus of Unter den Linden. Once the boundary between East and West Berlin, it is now the symbol of reunification. Built between 1789 and 1791 and modeled after the Propylaea arch that leads to the Acropolis in Athens, it is 66 feet high and 215 feet wide. It was the first classical building in Berlin and is shaped after the "Propylene" in Athens. The gate is crowned by a statue of Nike, the winged goddess of victory, driving a two-wheeled chariot drawn by four horses . The gate's northern wing contains the Room of Silence, where the weary and frenzied can sit and contemplate peace. The 200-year-old gate was built as a monument to Prussian power and it embodied German unity until Hitler's defeat at the end of the Second World War. It subsequently became one of the most potent symbols of Cold War division of Germany and of Europe.
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