Berlin is home to rich history and especially expressive artistic streets. Indeed, once disguised as a monstrous and barren wall separating the East to the West of the city during the Cold War, the last existing part of the Berlin Wall stands proud today as an open air museum to display its wall art, also known as the East Side Gallery. Stretching for 1.3 kilometres, it displays the original artistic pieces of Western Berliners since 1870, as they were the only side allowed to approach the wall. They used this opportunity to express their social unrest and political frustration, until the collapse of the wall on the 9th of November, 1989. Indeed, these large, unbeaten parts of the wall are concrete memories carved out of social disruption during the Soviet occupation, but ultimately giving birth to a new artistic movement in the country and the rest of the world.
