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Index
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Babylon
Cinema
Anatomical
Theatre
The
Deserted Room
Luisenst.
Canal Gardens
Franciscan
Monastery
Künstlerheim
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Room
of Silence
Tajikistan
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St.
Michael's Church
Nicolai
House
Mori-Ogai Memorial
Honigmond Hotels
Orphtheatre
Berlin
Teahouse
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The
Honigmond Garden Hotel opened in Invalidenstrasse at the northern
periphery of the Mitte area in October 2000. English reticence combines
with southern extravagance in this expensively restored building. The
larger rooms that look onto the street and the smaller quieter rooms with
a view over the garden are individual and imaginative, furnished partly
with pieces taken from the fund of a theatre. A spacious, luxuriantly
planted garden courtyard has been developed from the topsoil of a nursery
which was here in the 1960's, part of the famous Spaeth'sche horticultural
firm. In six ground-floor rooms, the guest can enjoy the rare luxury of a
garden residence in central Berlin. All rooms are en-suite and are
available with breakfast included. Single rooms cost between DM 139.- and
DM 169.- while double rooms are from DM 199.- to DM 249.- . Two minutes
away on foot is the second Honigmond Hotel, a corner house at 12
Tieckstrasse and 28 Borsigstrasse. It is pleasantly situated on the first
floor above a restaurant of the same name. The twelve rooms have the
generous proportions and unconventional appearance of modernised old
Berlin buildings with wooden floors and stuccoed ceilings. Here, a single
room costs between DM 69.- and DM 129.- while double rooms range from DM
99.- to DM 199.-. The more luxurious rooms are from DM 139.- to DM 199.-
excluding breakfast. The delightful restaurant opens for lunch during the
week and is only open for breakfast at the weekend. In the 1980's, the
so-called Borsig-Eck was much frequented by GDR (German Democratic
Republic) dissidents and closed by the Stasi (Secret Police) shortly
before the Wall came down, ostensibly because it was over -crowded. Both
Honigmond houses are pleasantly quiet in spite of their proximity to the
bustling cultural activity of the Spandauer Vorstadt. Rented apartments
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