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Three fragments in a square named for Berlin at the end of Avenida Las Américas.
The Plaza Berlín is at the southern end of that avenue. As in Madrid and Seoul, the square carries Berlin's name and the fragments explain why — the naming and the object arrive as a pair.
A 2019 BBC Mundo report, republished in El Universal, dates the plaza's three fragments to 1995.
The municipality's own page gives the monument a name and a date: Berlín por la Libertad, erected in 2006 from three concrete fragments of the Wall, brought with the help of Guatemalan-German citizens and businesspeople and the municipality, with a plaque calling them original sections of the wall that divided Germany from 13 August 1961 to 3 October 1990. That is not the year BBC Mundo gives, and both are kept here. When the German Embassy and the municipality remodelled the plaza in 2019, the artist Daniela Dávila and volunteers repainted the three fragments; one of them lies on the ground on purpose, for the fall of the Wall in November 1989. The embassy holds its commemoration of 9 November in the plaza, and Prensa Libre reported from the thirty-fifth anniversary in 2024 that the three original pieces stand beside the plaza's concrete mural.
How did it get here?
Brought with the help of Guatemalan-German citizens and businesspeople and the municipality, and erected as the monument Berlín por la Libertad in 2006, by the municipality's account; BBC Mundo dates the fragments to 1995.
Sources
Listed by the Federal Foundation as #236 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #157.
List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia ↗
Three fragments displayed at the Berlin Square at the end of Las Américas Avenue.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
30 años de la caída del Muro de Berlín: el extraño destino de algunos de sus trozos (BBC Mundo, republished by El Universal) ↗
Reports three fragments installed in Plaza Berlín, Guatemala City, in 1995.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Conmemoran los 35 años de la caída del Muro de Berlín — Prensa Libre ↗
9 November 2024, from the German Embassy's commemoration in the Plaza Berlín: beside the mural stand three original pieces of the Berlin Wall, in a monument called Berlín por la Libertad.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Muro de Berlín — Municipalidad de Guatemala, Cultura (Wayback Machine copy, April 2023) ↗
The municipality's page: the monument Berlín por la Libertad was erected in 2006 from three concrete fragments of the Wall, brought with the help of Guatemalan-German citizens and businesspeople and the municipality; the plaque reads 'Secciones originales del muro que dividió Alemania del 13 de agosto de 1961 al 3 de octubre de 1990'.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Alemania invierte en remodelación de la Plaza Berlín — La Hora ↗
12 February 2019: the monument Berlín por la Libertad is made of three original sections of the Wall, one of them laid down as a symbol of its fall; in the remodelling the artist Daniela Dávila and volunteers repainted them.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 236
Berlin Wall Archive ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 157
Source-reported segments: 3. This is not a separately verified count.
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