Europa City/ Berlin-Spandau Canal

One of the things I love about Berlin is, that it's so vast and so diverse that you can be a Berlin citizen for years and still discover new areas, places and hideaways. This happened to me today when, setting out to explore Europa City - as the area around Central Station will be known once completed - I discovered the Berlin-Spandau Canal, which runs along the former Wall, and which has a lot going for it ...

 ... the Canal begins at Humboldt Harbour, opposite the Hamburger Bahnhof (Museum for Contemporary Art) ...  ... please click on each image to enlarge: 

... right behind the Museum (and easily visible from this side of the Canal), there's a whole new neighbourhood in the making, consisting of apartment buildings, office blocks, converted warehouses, and so on ...

... while this side of the Canal, you walk along (more or less) landscaped paths and green spaces, tracing what used to be the Berlin Wall ...

... going past the old Invalid's Cemetery, with plenty of tombs of Prussian generals fighting in the 1866 and 1871 wars as well as in the Great one ...

... while at the far end, yet more apartment buildings are springing up seemingly by the minute ...

... with the ballet of cranes in the future Europa City visible in the distance ...