'What a blunder': No magic in Spanish castle restoration

Edit CNN 10 Mar 2016
(CNN)It has been dubbed "a disaster," a "massacre of the cultural heritage," or, more bluntly, the world's worst restoration project. Castillo de Matrera, Cádiz, Spain. 13th century. Before and after "restoration" ... 25 photos. 25 magnificent and endangered structures ... Teufelsberg NSA Station, Berlin – During the Cold War, this was a listening station run by the US National Security Agency to eavesdrop on the Eastern Bloc ... S ... ....

This Is Why Tim Cook Is So Furious

Edit Huffington Post 19 Feb 2016
You might have read the Apple CEO's open response to the U.S. government earlier today. They are demanding access to an iPhone that was involved in the San Bernardino attacks. In short, they want to have a "backdoor", which Tim Cook is strictly opposing ... Basically it does what it says ... In Berlins Teufelsberg surveillance station, an NSA outpost during the cold war, they are said to hold some document stashes on top of a pool of acid ... ....

“Zeitgeist Symbiosis”: Audi launches musical experiment in Berlin“Zeitgeist Symbiosis”: Audi launches musical experiment in Berlin ...

Edit Public Technologies 04 Sep 2015
(Source. Audi AG) Communications Culture. Lena Hoppe. Tel. +49 841 89-48361. E-mail. lena.hoppe@audi.de www.audi-mediacenter.com. "Zeitgeist Symbiosis". Audi launches musical experiment in Berlin.  Innovative event on the Teufelsberg in Berlin.  Wayne Griffiths, Head of Sales Germany at AUDI AG. ... Well known show director Brendan Shelper and lighting designer Chris Moylan presented the show on the Teufelsberg in Berlin ... - End - ... (noodl....

10 of the best ways to enjoy Berlin … on a budget

Edit The Guardian 18 Aug 2015
See fine art and classical music for free, eat great-value street food and stay in cheap but very stylish hostels … Here are 10 ways to have a brilliant time in Berlin. • Find more tips on what to see and do in our Berlin city guide. Culture for the canny ... Find more galleries in our guide here ... Twitter ... The athletically inclined may prefer to hike their way to the top of Teufelsberg, the eerie, abandoned site of a former NSA station ... ....

Berlin: The Reichstag dome is a clear favorite among tourists

Edit Stars and Stripes 14 May 2015
It is one of Berlin’s most popular tourist attractions. Some come to see democracy in action, but most come to wander up through the lofty glass and metal dome that crowns it ... 9, 1918 ... To the west, the view is the grassy expanse of the Platz der Republik, the gleaming Federal Chancellery building, the Victory Column and way off in the distance, the Teufelsberg, a recreation area topped by a former American radar station ... tons) ...   ... ....

Germany’s U.S. spying habit is hard to break

Edit Tampa Bay Online 11 May 2015
Anyone who has been to Teufelsberg, the Berlin hill built from wartime rubble that housed an allied listening station until 1991, will recognize the huge golf ball-like radomes of Bad Aibling Station on a Google Maps satellite image. Both now-abandoned Teufelsberg, where graffiti artists play and where you can get inside the tatty radomes for 7 ......

Berlin's abandoned buildings full of tragic history

Edit Reuters 26 Mar 2015
BERLIN (Reuters) - Even as real estate prices in Berlin rise inexorably and gentrification turns rundown corners into trendy neighborhoods, the German capital is still filled with eerie pockets of empty spaces and abandoned buildings. Ghost-like structures and vacant amusement parks that haven't tempted investors yet are overgrown with trees and shrubbery ... Q ... Then somebody told me about Teufelsberg, the abandoned NSA listening station ... ....

Book Talk - Berlin's abandoned buildings full of tragic history

Edit Yahoo Daily News 26 Mar 2015
By Elias Schneider. BERLIN (Reuters) - Even as real estate prices in Berlin rise inexorably and gentrification turns rundown corners into trendy neighbourhoods, the German capital is still filled with eerie pockets of empty spaces and abandoned buildings ... Fahey spoke to Reuters in Berlin about his book. Q. There are empty buildings all over the world ... A ... Q ... A ... Q ... A ... Then somebody told me about Teufelsberg, the abandoned NSA listening station....

Blog to book: Berlin's secret places unveiled

Edit Deutsche Welle 27 Feb 2015
When the colorful rides of an amusement park are left to decay and turn into a seemingly post-apocalyptic landscape, you can't help but wonder what happened there ... This happened to two of the most popular abandoned destinations, the Spreepark and the former NSA listening station on top of the Teufelsberg ... For example, on a page about the Teufelsberg there have been over 150 comments serving this purpose, dating back to 2010 ... ....

Berlin? Verboten? That sounds fun

Edit The Irish Times 29 Nov 2014
Forbidden fruit always tastes sweeter than the shop-bought kind. For Ciarán Fahey the same logic applies to Berlin’s forbidden and forgotten places ... “If it’s Verboten it’s got to be fun.” ... Fahey doesn’t just visit ... Some of the first sites he visited were the Spreepark, an abandoned fairground in eastern Berlin that recently burned down, and the Teufelsberg, a cold-war era US listening post on the city’s western outskirts....

West Berlin recalls 'island' of freedom that vanished with Wall

Edit Reuters 07 Nov 2014
BERLIN (Reuters) - With East Germany in the limelight of celebrations of 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, people who spent the Cold War in the capitalist enclave of West Berlin can be forgiven for feeling overlooked ... There are some attempts to compete directly ... Teufelsberg, the delapidated Cold War listening post on a manmade hill from debris from wartime bombing, is popular with tourists. A guide jokes that U.S ... ....

Top 10 ghost towns and modern ruins you can visit

Edit The Guardian 27 Oct 2014
Ghost town relics in Bodie, California. Photograph. Mitch Diamond/Getty ... Teufelsberg listening station, Berlin, Germany. Photograph ... Built by the American National Security Agency in the 1960s, the listening towers on Teufelsberg (Devil’s Mountain) in former West Berlin were used to spy on Soviet and East German military communications ... • €7pp, minimum age 14, open Mon-Sun 1p-6pm, berliner-teufelsberg.com Missouri State Penitentiary, US ... ....

Book review: Poor But Sexy: Culture Clashes in Europe East and West

Edit Taipei Times 17 Sep 2014
Towards the end of We the People (1990), a compilation of eyewitness accounts of the recent revolutions that had taken place across eastern Europe, Timothy Garton Ash quotes a Hungarian friend who told him ... In tourists heading to Chernobyl she discerns the same enthusiasm “as when they penetrated the galleries in New York or any ‘hot’ place on the art map.” She is rueful about a former CIA listening station at Teufelsberg (literally ... ....
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