Ballsaal des Hotel Esplanade

Ballroom of the Historic Hotel Esplanade

Past meets present

Description

The Sony Centre on Potsdamer Platz is always good for a surprise: Inside the ultra-modern, high-tech building you'll find one of the most splendid monuments of Berlin's Golden Years - a 19th century ballroom, known as the "Emperor's ballroom", which was originally attached to the legendary Esplanade Hotel. The original building was moved, at great expense, 100 metres across Potsdamer Platz to the plot of land owned by Sony, and has now been incorporated into the Sony Centre. Visitors can once again admire its splendour, albeit from behind glass walls. P.S. Cinema lovers may be interested to know that the final sequence of Wim Wender's classic film about Berlin, Wings of Desire, was shot here.