Blink a few times and feel water drops splashing in your face. The fountain in the Lustgarten, Berlin's oldest public pleasure garden, offers cool refreshment here on the Museuminsel. Through your eyelashes and the water drops you can see the famous Berliner Dom, the city's bombastic neo-baroque cathedral, and the Altes Museum, a neoclassical temple of learning and loftiness. And on the other side a void: the enormous Stadtschloss was demolished in 1950 by the communists. Not that that's of much consequence: on hot days one seeks refreshment, not culture.
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