There’s a push by Berlin swimmers to get back into the water a century after the city banned swimming in the Spree River because it was so polluted that locals were at risk of falling ill.

Only in Berlin, swimming has been continuously prohibited in the Spree since May 1925, when the German capital closed all traditional river pools because the water was deemed too toxic. Some of those ...

Berlin Mitte also holds many of Berlin's best museums, many of which are located on Museumsinsel, an island on the Spree River. One such museum is the Bode Museum, which has a majestic and ...

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Even city officials in the central Mitte district of Berlin say they’d be interested in introducing river swimming again in 2026. “There are still many things that need to be clarified, but I am ...

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Video. Around 200 Berliners leapt into the Spree River on Tuesday to demand an end to a century-old swimming ban in the city’s central district.

As Union Berlin told 'rbb24', an objection was lodged against the result of a game by Hertha BSC. More precisely, against a ...

Wine lovers, head to Spain. Or Italy. Restaurant wine prices there are so much lower than in most of continental Europe, and ...

On the count of three, “Frieden” — the German word for “peace” — echoed through a crowd of 50 people gathered on a sunny Saturday afternoon in B ...

Around 200 people jumped into the slow-moving, greenish water Tuesday to show that it's not only clean enough, but also lots of fun to splash and swim in the Mitte neighborhood along the world-famous ...