reverse culture shock. ready for a comeback you realize how strangely artificial little kids really connected to life. the prize winning documentary from the forest starts this night on d w. i ever want to welcome to this special week of euro max we're taking to the road to visit europe's most beautiful cities here's a look at what's coming up. incomplete why barcelona is an unfinished site crowded for media is a tourist magnet. incomparable what makes the french parts something so special.

and unexpected a unique way to see the hunger in capital budapest. all this week we're taking a closer look at europe's major tourist destinations including certain cities with interesting elements which make them stand out from the rest now to kick off the show we begin here at home in berlin with the infamous berlin wall now built in one thousand nine hundred sixty one this concrete barrier was both a physical and ideological symbol of the cold war between east and west it stood for over twenty eight years before it fell in november of one thousand nine hundred nine today the wall or rather the few bits that are left of it has become a tourist magnet installation artist a yard to guard a c.z. and his digital panorama of the barrier gives a visit visitors an actual feeling of what a divided berlin felt like back in. a neat few sections of the berlin will

remain the longest is the famous east side gallery. these dividing pieces are a reminder of the border that once divided that paving stones marked the cools the bed and will once took across the city this chapter in history is still of particular interest to tourists. i think it could be considering how historic it was like every day he says that the world i think it should stand out. there needs to be more appreciation of its historical significance. that's exactly what the three hundred sixty degree turnaround of the wool hopes to achieve. opened in twenty twelve visit is a transported back to the divided city to get a taste of life back then. they're surrounded by nine hundred eighty s. berlin on a gray november day looking up from west to east bay that. music

and various sound bites from the time help visitors feel how it was back then. i still have goosebumps you could never imagine it i mean you see the pictures on t.v. but this puts you right there in the middle of it i have to say i found it really fascinating stuff by as from saddam's fans for c.n.n. and it was a really impressive in the room even gives you a sense of the historical background. artist you had to go to c.c. it took three and a half years to complete the image. of the we're standing five meters away from the wall looking over it towards the east we see people living there like they live anywhere else without being aware or at least consciously registering that they live right next to the boat in war. yet occurrences he put trey's life under the shadow of the wall. creating the right atmosphere was more important

to him than being rigidly factual. he himself is a witness of the era. for years he lived in the section of the day that features in this kind of moment. almost everything here is from my own experience i didn't have to do any research it's all from memory. yet of course since he was born in vienna but grew up in for me it's germany. in one nine hundred seventy s. he was deported to west berlin and lived near the border. the concrete wall was opposing his everyday life. he rebuilt his world from back then on a computer with drawings and countless photos he took using extras as subjects. creating the look of the time wasn't easy at all. finding accessories to bring the

euro back to life everything from the dilapidated buildings to the old chewing gum machines. you have to be consistent. over tender with a visitor tell it was built a house that had a remix screen which is fifty meters high and sixty meters wide. twenty fabric strips were printed and stapled together. both the logistical and financial demands were extremely high. the scale of this is problematic everything is enormous and costs a lot of money and as a solo artist you don't think it would be possible to buy his three hundred sixty degree panorama of the wall is a tribute to the psystar of her era the images reflect the banality of everyday life even under such bleak circumstances. the right of any and all people leave here and say i stood next to the berlin wall with the memory will be even stronger

than the real thing maybe they'll also reflect on how they did just have something like that happen to them or they'll go home and think i already do have to adjust to my life in my job my private life and so on i think it opens up a lot of questions but maybe some answers to. the pen or emma is sure to bring back memories to those who experienced it abided by and to give others a good idea of what it was like. when on now to barcelona a popular tourist destination on the east coast of spain the architect and artist antonio de left his mark all over the city and one of the most famous of his constructions is the unfinished roman catholic sagrada from me the church now it's anticipated completion to it is two thousand and twenty six the centennial of galaxies death but if you go by the pace of construction so far it's anybody's guess if that goal will be achieved however what is standing now is just as

fascinating here's a closer look. at the basilica of the holy family gratify media is one of barcelona's best known landmarks. work has been in progress on the church designed by catalan architect antoni gaudi for over one hundred thirty years. joining family is the seventh architect to oversee the project since. he's been leading the work since twenty twelve and has been a member of the project team since one nine hundred ninety. i started here when they had architects back then your db on a commission to me. so there were four of us back from when it be if you go about it with you know there are more than fifty others working on the site. you know to the most that we see. when it's finished last about if i mean you will both like this. it will have eighteen spiers and three facades.

oversaw his life's work for more than four decades until he was run over by a tram and killed in one nine hundred twenty six after his death architects from around the globe continued the project the foundation raised the funds the work is financed exclusively from donations and entrance fees neither the spanish government nor the catholic church provides money for the. nevertheless each year around twenty five million euros is raised to finish out his creation. but few of them give up a feeling that i'm going to start of this our daughter from you completely unconventional of. course you go to church in parts is. the first part wasn't the foundation of the interior name. yoshi instead he and his workers put up the facade of the holy birth as

a symbol of the afterlife sort of struck. by the photo. critics often point to the overloaded symbolism of the exterior. anyone who goes inside is surprised by how like the modern gothic style church seems. go d. was an intuitive architect his ideas often developed as he worked and he didn't leave behind blueprints for his successors. most will if you will. because our goal is to finish the project according to antoni gaudi these ideas as much as possible that's why we've got to study the few documents that he left behind in great detail to make his vision into reality. a cigarette a funny hat is the most important site in barcelona and an important economic factor. more than three million tourists come to the confluence city each year to

see the church it's a pretty spectacular piece of awe and piece of architecture that we're just tossing through for the day say we have to come and see it while we were there we had to come and see what it was all about. i think this agron of familia is a must for everyone who comes to spain especially if you're in barcelona i just because it's a landmark i think a lot of people come to barcelona just to see the cigarette of him ilya. views among the locals about the project differ the crowds of tourists who come to see the church have changed the neighborhood souvenir shops and kiosks have forced out businesses from around the church and there's another thing that worries the residents back when the building started the construction site was in the middle of the field now the surrounding area is completely built up and some of the buildings will have to be torn down to implement county's original plans for the problem not in front of the main facade. you david

is almost if you want a few group with the building is so well known that of course people have differing opinions about it or. just the finished church with its eighteen spires would be a fantastic overall eye catcher just by virtue of its different visual axes to be. the target date for finishing the project is twenty twenty six just in time for the one hundredth anniversary of county's death but even in its unfinished state the church is already one of the best known buildings in europe. here's a fun fact for you apparently about twenty billion croissants are in around the globe each year but the best ones crispy and flaky on the outside and buttery and tender on the inside are only found in france so what is the secret to a really good cross song well in addition to tons of real butter

a lot of love and painstaking kneading work is involved now we met up with a prize winning baker to learn about this surprisingly sophisticated process. ever the best car saw in paris maybe the whole world. it comes from one hundred pounds from our two k.'s award winning bakeries enough to tell him in the heart of the french capital. of their own if it was we want to show that our professional wants to be involved in the making of a good car sauce. with my team and our big between eight hundred and nine hundred cars on sunday but. before you sign the focus on iraq before i really love these questions they taste great because they make them the traditional way. of education for quality scraped so i come here not just for the cause sauce but the bread to the classrooms are so popular that they're usually sold out by lunch time.

but what's the secret to making world class class homes he said the ingredients. flour sugar and salt. add some powdered milk to sounds easy so far. then he adds some yeast. and water maybe that's the case. of all that of all use really cold water that keeps the dull cool so the yeast doesn't start to rise. in just a few minutes his machine needs the ingredients into a uniform consistency. then the dough is divided formed into large bowls and then left to rest. now the bakers pappa to go into the proper shape. and refrigerated put two hours.

then it's time to act premium quality patter. then of those flattened until it's just a centimeter thick is how it's a full. to look around to once. covers the slab a bouncer completely with a dress. and then flatten it out again. this process gives the console its distinctive flaky texture the repeated rolling unfolding of video is known as nominating. mixed different layers that is probably. constant triangles or dull by. now they have to cool again. it takes at least one full day to make. the bakers roll the triangles into the proper shape. i think the

moment it looks like a small eiffel tower that. individual is a double role to perfection are now ready for the album. might spread and washed out special claims. because songs are paid to add two hundred degree celsius for amount twenty minutes. monsters he's pounding the finished product by wes this is an excellent cross song you can see each individual layer even on the inside. and the bottom has stayed on the inside out to. add on top of all that the head looks great on. while plated compromise already.

one of the best cross songs in all of us courtesy of bhangra mount to create his team. wow now from the city of. love and the best croissants to a place best known for its healing waters buddha past the hungering capital situated on the danube river budapest is made up of the old city's buddha and patched which are sprawled on either side of the river so it makes sense to see some of the city from the water and we did just that in a very unexpected way. a trip on the danube with a difference not by boat but on a floating bus it's not usual way to explore budapest. the trip starts off in the city center. the amphibious bus takes around ninety minutes to complete its route at first the tour doesn't seem much different from others in the city but this one has a surprise in store. at least this is

a unique tour because sometimes you're on land and other times you're out on the river. today. our first impression of budapest draws us down to the water. the banks of the danube here are part of unesco world heritage site. but first the bus rolls past some of the city's principal historic monuments and sites like st stephen's basilica where alongside hungary and royalty and saints you'll find the final resting place of soccer legend fed and. then it's back to the bus which now heads for the water even though that's what they paid for the passengers are a little nervous. the audience made their new best pretty rough today i'm a little anxious about whether the bus can deal with it hope we don't capsize.

the high point of the trip is the splash down. the. aisle to the dramatic strains of the bus takes hours to stretch the bus descends a long ramp into the water i'm the last injures heave a collective sigh of relief it really does float. along really well so i know it was on land to drive just like a normal bus with six wheels under an engine out on the water it's like driving a giant jets. he just a little slower. out on the river new vistas open up. margaret island is a popular destination for daytrippers. it was named after a fourteenth century hungary in princes her father king below the fourth sent his daughter to a dominican convent on the island in gratitude for divine help during the war.

margaret died there at the age of twenty eight. pm to be as bus cruises past the historic centers of the past and boarded districts on opposite banks of the river. on the border side is hungary's largest building good a castle. on the question side the country's parliament two hundred sixty eight meters long. modeled after westminster palace in london it was completed in one thousand know for. another institution dating back to the era when hungary was part of a powerful empire coffee houses similar to those common in austria in the nineteenth century they could be found on practically every corner. some of the most historic houses are still in use today like a job in the center of historic pushed it open to an eight hundred fifty eight. in budapest we have and we had in the past i mean is

a cafe couch or unfortunate thing during the holidays make him stick raised a little bit by. a steal or really in la i can love to go to coffee how was it from every race. next to each other and talking about life. then is back to the river for centuries the danube divided the two central parts of the city the first bridge connecting them was only completed in eighteen forty nine . to get them to pat. i believe the chain of bridge was the first permanent bridge between pest and buddha deadbeats but the danube still plays the lead role in the development of honduras capital that we're now. told that. the floating bus slowly makes its way back to the ramp where it will return to dry land this unique journey through the hungary and capital is one the passengers will remember for a long time to come.

and finally gin also known as mother's ruin is as popular as ever in london where it has quite a history will back in the mid eighteenth century it was being consumed in such copious amounts that the government imposed a tax on it hoping to curb consumption well fast forward a couple of hundred years later engine pubs are still very popular in the british capital and now the spirit is commanding a hefty price in some corners thanks to a new boutique culture. there's a new attraction amid the hustle and bustle of portobello road in west london is notting hill neighborhood it's the distillery a hot spot for the capital's favorite spirit g.m. . but you can hear more than just drinking here. the house was opened by london's portobello road gin distillery.

we want it to be a home for the brother of the city we're also for judy london really we've got a deal everything you could offer of historical museum to browse of specialized. especially gin shop as well for the if you're the state of the distillery cameras well so yes the off your world stop shop for all things in the bar on the ground floor behind stuff is stored in old wooden casks. while stands on the first floor the gin tonic a restaurant serves gin and tonic with more than one hundred sixty kinds of gin on offer from all over the world and those projects are where we are though. here we specialize in very words of the killer spanish style so it's a copper serves the thinking behind that is that you see a particular gene with

a particular tarik of a particular garnish where all the flavors work together so we want to a wide array of regions fought for the spot in deference to spain's rather surprising first for the chin and tonic cocktail gin tonic up also serves time perhaps in spain gin and tonic is usually an accompaniment to a meal. includes from the quote big trends right now in terms of either cooking with jen or pairing specific dishes seafood dishes worked really well so even like jane cured salmon i was really well and i think and she. as an ingredient goes really well with things like balance so the history isn't just a place to drink gin but to experience it in the cellar is a little museum the dutch prince william of orange first brought juniper spirits to the british isles in the seventeenth century its popularity spread rapidly in the eighteenth century severe penalties were imposed to keep an epidemic of gin

drinking within socially acceptable bounds. today's gin bears little resemblance to the cheap hooch of those days past visitors to the distilleries gin institute find out along with juniper up to one hundred fifty different flavorings and active ingredients may be added. here small groups can even brew their very own jane variety. even our workshops are often fully booked. it's quite hard to see because you get completely different experiences and actually different levels in which she wants. the you can interact with both the distillery on the team so if you really want to do a hands on really immersive experience you can go for the pop in for a drink you have a shortage of food and just hang out with some friends there's a huge dive a huge range of experiences all under one roof and all centered around it. and for guests who've had their fill of gin or more than the distillery has

a boutique hotel on the top floor comfortable and yet close enough to reach for the next gen at their convenience. and with that we wrap up another edition of euro max i hope you are inspired by some of the destinations which we covered be sure to tune in tomorrow as our special continues there out in nature well for me and the rest of the crew here and good of you as always thanks for joining us and was seeing again tomorrow. next time you're a mike special the way of st james in spain welcomes pilgrims from around the world to. a calling or a holiday in switzerland with a local project. done to some locals la freestyle biggest national park coming up next time on the question of you're on.

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