Incredible show of giant puppets in Berlin - Photo session

Hundreds of thousands of people were out on Sunday to look at the towering mechanical marionettes.

The crowd was so packed on Saturday at Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate to watch the puppets that police had to block access to the site several hours earlier than scheduled.

The wooden and metal marionettes, a 15-metre giant from the west and his five-metre little "niece" giant from the east, reunited at the gate which was for 45 years the border between communist east and capitalist west.

Dozens of artists and technicians from the French troupe Royal de Luxe manoeuvred the puppets across several kilometres, stopping by other Berlin landmarks such as the Reichstag parliament and Checkpoint Charlie, a former East-West passage.

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Photos by Boston.com