* From Latin digitalis, from digitus 'finger, toe' adj. Of or relating to a finger or fingers.

In April 2002 the expert commission "Historische Mitte Berlin" suggested (with 8 votes against 7) the reconstruction of the old Prussian palace (Schloß) and therefore to demolish the Palace of the Republic, old home of the East German Parliament as well as a big cultural and social centre of the disappeared GDR.

We recognize some objects by the shape they have... from far!

The real experience in situ (in place) of big objects, like buildings or monuments, opposes to the previous mental image that often we have of those objects either by our cultural background either by a previous preparation to the visit of these big objects (as traveller's guides, postcards and so on).