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BUILDING
Brandenburg Gate
Neoclassical · 1788–1791
THE STORY
Commissioned by Frederick William II and finished in 1791, the gate was Carl Gotthard Langhans's homage to the Propylaea — the marble entrance to the Athenian Acropolis — and it taught Berlin to dream of itself as Athens on the Spree. Two years later Johann Gottfried Schadow set the Quadriga on top: Victory driving her four horses into the city.
Napoleon liked the goddess so much he carted her off to Paris in 1806; she came home in 1814 with an Iron Cross added to her staff. For twenty-eight years the gate stood stranded in the death strip beside the Berlin Wall — until the November night in 1989 when Berliners climbed the Wall beneath her and danced.
Verified · source: Wikipedia
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