Just to the south of the East Side Gallery, is the really cool looking Oberbaumbrücke, or Oberbaum Bridge, which at the time this photo was taken, seems to have two bright yellow metro trains crossing it. In fact, there’s also a train shown on the bridge in this photo on Wikipedia.

FC Barcelona’s home stadium is called Camp Nou. It is apparently the largest capacity stadium in Europe with over 98,000 seats, although our many submitters couldn’t seem to agree on the actual capacity (I could look it up myself, but that sounds like too much work).

To the west you can also see the ‘Miniestadi’ (Mini-stadium) used by the FC Barcelona subteams.

Thanks: Adam, Phil Henry, Miguel Sanchez, Brian Spollen, Brian Scanlan, Marcel Lopez, Miquel, Manuel Fernandez Lerma, setillo, Abel Sanchez, Artur, Huw Morris & Jayson Gabler

Today, the 9th of November, is the 16th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not much of the wall still stands, but the largest reamining section is now maintained as the world’s largest open air gallery, the East Side Gallery (It’s difficult to make out, but it’s the bit with the short shadow extending north, see this photo for comparison). Approximately 106 paintings by artists from all over the world cover this memorial for freedom, and you can see them all in this gigantic collage.

Lots more great info on The Berlin Wall and the East Side Gallery over at wikipedia, and there’s tons of other things to see in this fabulous city, some of which I’ll be posting about throughout today.

Coincidentally this is also the day that Mozilla Firefox 1.0 was first released. Happy 1st birthday Firefox.

Thanks to Russell Stout for helping me locate this.