Treptower Park Berlin

Spend your time at the Treptower Park, which is a beautiful park set along the Spree River in Treptow. Treptower Park in Berlin is located in the Köpenick district towards the southern side of central Berlin. Visit this Treptower Park in Berlin as it boasts of innumerable recreation for the local natives. The attraction of Treptower Park in Berlin is its Soviet War Memorial, which is even natively called as "Soviet Cenotaph". The Soviet War Memorial within the Treptower Park in Berlin is a gigantic war memorial and military cemetery. Designed by the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky, this beautiful park was built in honor 5,000 out of 20,000 Soviet armed forces, who gave their lives in the Battle of Berlin during the year April-May 1945. Treptower Park in Berlin was made access to the public during the year May 8, 1949, four years after the war concluded. The best thing to see at the Treptower Park in Berlin is a monument of about 12-m tall, which depicts a Soviet soldier carrying a sword that holds a child, positioned over a broken swastika. The pedestal of the statue encloses a small room smoothened in mosaics, for garlands to be laid upon. One can come across a central area, which is adorned with 16 stone sarcophagi that portrays the 16 Soviet Republics carved with military scenes and quotations quoted by Joseph Stalin, which is inscribed in Russian as well as German dialect on either side of the central area. The area was once a resting place for the soldiers who belonged to the Red Army. Opposite side of the central area lies an entrance carrying pairs of stylized marble Soviet flags, which is said to have been recovered. Apart from these lie the statues of kneeling soldiers that accompany the flags. So unwind your day at this historical Treptower Park, which is based in Berlin.