One of the suggested stops on your Germany Tours, visiting the impressive, modern and historic capital city of Berlin, is the famous Pergamon Museum, one of the tourist destinations par excellence, which has become eternally famous for the "Gates of Babylon" , known as "Istar Gate" in Germany!
Right from the start, practically our objective of visiting the famous Pergamon Museum, in the capital city of Germany, is to get to the monumental "Istar Gate", commonly known by those who visit it for the first time as "The Gates of Babylon", which is a set of eight large gates, which even exceed 14 meters high, by an impressive 10 meters high. width! So you can already have an idea of what we are talking about, but also imaginary that their history dates back to 575 BC, built by the famous Nebuchadnezzar II, who ordered them to be built in polished adobe bricks, painted mostly by the blue color, drawing silhouettes of fierce mythological creatures.
So like us at viajejet.com you will wonder why they are called "The Gates of BabylonHuh? This is because they were originally discovered in Babylon during a series of archaeological campaigns led by Germany in 1902!
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