BERLIN BEAR – symbol of a city
where would you go if you were really into bears? forget alaska or norway. just go to berlin. bears will just keep coming at you…

you kaputt, reads this irreverent t-shirt in which berlin’s bear is smaching the other main symbol of the city: brandenburg gate.

these huge bears are all over the city of berlin, and you’ll be hard pressed to find any two exactly alike.

street art. this piece is probably dedicated to knut, a polar bear born in a berlin zoo a few years ago that the whole country fell in love with. then he died while still very young. as far as i’m concerned, no zoos is good zoos.

this one doesn’t look like the sharpest tool in the shed. the handpainted colors add a little brightness.
if rome uses a she-wolf as the symbol of the eternal city, berlin uses a bear.
photographs taken in june 2012. except for the first one, which i took in rome in july.
alessandro ciapanna
20 Responses to “BERLIN BEAR – symbol of a city”
Absolutely bloody brilliant! Obviously I’ll have to pay Berlin a visit. It looks like my kind of city.
was sure you’d like it
thanks for the visit! 😉
LOL!
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My kind of city…
thank you, buddy – i really enjoy your sense of humor 😉
Very great layout to your blog, love the bears…love your pix. -huckleberry finn
glad to be of use – tom sawyer 😉
🙂 keep your comments coming, they make me laugh.
you could do a book on Berlin, bears alone!
now that’s an interesting idea to consider…
thank you 😉
theres nothing more satisfying than consolidating ones work!
The right to arm bears? LMAO!!! Chicago did cows a few years back, but there’s no deep long history there like in Berlin. What fun – more, please!
i think those cows have been traveling the world. a few years back they were in buenos aires, argentina. so, tell you what: next life, i wanna be a plastic cow.
thanks, ann 😉
Well, they apparently get around a lot more than I do!
He visto por televisión reportajes de Berlín, pero nunca habían comentado este detalle del oso, gracias por compartir, desde luego Berlin lo tengo apuntado en mi wish list de viajes, muy curioso, abrazos
por un periodista, hablar en algo original es obligatorio. y por un fotografo, el exito mayor es cuando sacas fotos y quien les ve comenta ‘ahora quiero ir alli’
gracias, manoli 😉
Es verdad, tienes razón, abrazos
An amusing post Alessandro!
thank you paula, and welcome back! 🙂
Grazie Alessandro 🙂