Monday, March 17, 2008

Recreation in Berlin



( Wansee )

Berlin has an extensive system of parks and recreational facilities including the Wannsee (a lake), the beautiful botanical gardens in Steglitz, and the 31-sq-km (12-sq-mi) forest of Grunewald.

( Tiergarten )
Tiergarten contains the largest of Berlin’s nearly 50 parks and is home to the city’s enormous Zoological Garden, one of the largest and oldest in the world.

Berlin has about 1,600 sports and recreation groups with about 500,000 participants regulated and administered by a division of the city government.

The largest of the many sports clubs is the Berlin Soccer Club. While soccer is clearly the national sport, bicycling, tennis, track and field events, car racing, horse racing, and boxing also enjoy a wide following.

( Olympic Stadium )
Each of the city’s 12 boroughs runs its own recreation facilities. The most famous is the Olympic Stadium, constructed for the 1936 Olympics and still used for many different events.

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