Platz der Vereinten Nationen

Platz der Vereinten Nationen is a tram stop in Berlin, Berlin. Platz der Vereinten Nationen is situated nearby to the movie theater Friedrichshain Open Air Cinema, as well as near the locality Alt-Berlin.

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Type: Tram stop
Description: square in Berlin
Also known as: “Landsberger Platz” and “Leninplatz”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fernsehturm Berlin and Alexanderplatz.

Fernsehturm Berlin

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The Fernsehturm in central Berlin was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the government of the German Democratic Republic as both a functional broadcasting facility and a symbol of communist power. Fernsehturm Berlin is situated 1½ km west of Platz der Vereinten Nationen.

Alexanderplatz

Square

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Alexanderplatz is a large public square and transport hub in the central Mitte district of Berlin. The square is named after the Russian Tsar Alexander I, which also denotes the larger neighbourhood stretching from Mollstraße in the north-east to Spandauer Straße and the Rotes Rathaus in the south-west. Alexanderplatz is situated 1¼ km west of Platz der Vereinten Nationen.

Friedrichshain Open Air Cinema

Movie theater

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Friedrichshain Open Air Cinema is a movie theater, which is situated 300 metres northeast of Platz der Vereinten Nationen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alt-Berlin and Scheunenviertel.

Alt-Berlin

Locality

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Alt-Berlin, also spelled Altberlin, is a neighborhood, situated in the Berliner locality of Mitte, part of the homonymous borough. In the 13th century it was the sister town of the old Cölln, located on the northern Spree Island in the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

Scheunenviertel

Neighborhood

Scheunenviertel is a neighborhood of Mitte in the centre of Berlin. It is situated to the north of the medieval Altberlin area, east of the Rosenthaler Straße and Hackescher Markt.