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Located on the Pariser Platz, the Brandenburg Gate was the grandest, and is the last surviving, of a series of city gates constituting the passages into Berlin at the end of the eighteenth century. Completed in 1791, the design of the gate was based on the Propylea, the gateway to the Acropolis in Athens. The gate has played varying roles in Germany's history, beginning with Napoleon's transplantation of its Quadriga to Paris in 1806. When was the gate closed, and when did it reopen?