Did you know that in Buenos Aires there is a complete section of the Berlin Wall perfectly preserved? Besides being one of the largest and best preserved fragments outside Germany, the story of how that piece of the Berlin Wall in Buenos Aires got here is incredible. We tell you its history and exactly where it is.
Buenos Aires has the largest piece of the Berlin Wall outside Germany in full view of everyone in Barracas.
The Berlin Wall in Buenos Aires is in the neighborhood of Barracas. Its history begins in 1989, when the wall that separated Berlin into East and West for almost three decades fell. That same day Noticias magazine was born, and its founder, Jorge Fontevecchia, decided to bring to Argentina a piece of that wall that had marked contemporary history and recalls the struggle of the German people to regain their freedom and freedom of expression. The wall that separated the two Germanies was 155 km long, but 45 km passed through Berlin.
In order to complete it, Jorge Fontevecchia negotiated with the East German embassy the delivery of several blocks, in exchange for a donation for the construction of a school in Germany. Finally, in 1992, about 20 meters of the Berlin Wall arrived in Buenos Aires.
A piece of the Berlin Wall lives in Buenos Aires and few know it.
The blocks were installed at the headquarters of Editorial Perfil, in Barracas. Each piece is more than three meters high and weighs more than two tons. A curious detail is that one of the blocks was destroyed on purpose in order to distribute small pieces among the readers of Noticias magazine at the time, accompanied by a notary certification. Will there be many people who still have their certified piece of the Berlin Wall in Buenos Aires?
Although the space in Barracas where the Berlin Wall is on display in Buenos Aires is not a tourist site nor is it intended as such, the wall blocks can be seen from the outside of the Perfil building in Barracas as they are on the first floor in a glazed space. A unique experience in Buenos Aires because we have in the city a tangible sample of one of the events that marked the history of the twentieth century.
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