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GENDARMENMARKT
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The Gendarmenmarkt area is Berlin at its ritziest, dappled with luxury hotels, fancy restaur-
ants and bars. The graceful square was named after the Gens d'Armes, an 18th-century
Prussian regiment of French Huguenots who settled here after being expelled from France in
1685.
030-229 1760, 030-229 1760;
www.franzoesischer-dom.de
; Gendarmenmarkt; church free, museum
adult/concession €2/1, tower adult/child €3/1; church & museum noon-5pm Tue-Sun, tower
10am-7pm Apr-Oct, to 6pm Nov-Mar; Französische Strasse)
consists of two buildings: the
French Church, a copy of the Huguenots' mother church in Charenton, and the domed
tower, which was added by Carl von Gontard in 1785. There's a small Huguenot museum on
