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The Brandenburg Gate is one of the most iconic sights in today's vibrant Berlin More than just Berlin's only surviving historical city gate, this site came to symbolise Berlin's Cold War division into East and West – and, since the fall of the Wall, a reunified Germany Architecturally, the sandstone Brandenburg Gate also represents one of the earliest and most attractive examples of a neoclassical building in GermanyStanding before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German separated from his fellow men Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar President Von Weizsäcker has said, "The German question is open as long as the Brandenburg Gate is closed"Juni, connecting the Brandenburg Gate and ErnstReuterPlatz, serves as the central east–west axis Its name commemorates the uprisings in East Berlin of 17 June 1953 Approximately halfway from the Brandenburg Gate is the Großer Stern, a circular traffic island on which the Siegessäule (Victory Column) is situat...