Scores of cheering Germans on Monday re-enacted the moment the Berlin Wall came crashing down 20 years ago, toppling 1,000 graffiti-adorned 8-foot tall dominoes that tumbled along the route of the now vanished Cold War icon.

The sequence was set in motion at the Reichstag building by Lech Walesa, Poland's 1980s pro-democracy leader.  Residents and tourists alike gathered together, remembering a day many will never forget.

One Swedish tourist said :"I remember when they started to build it, I remember when it fell, and it's nice to see the celebrations I think."

It was the final day of memorial services, speeches and events that attracted leaders from around the world, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Thousands cheered as 1,000 colourfully decorated dominoes along a mile-long route were toppled to symbolise both the moment the wall came crashing down and the resulting fall of communism in Eastern Europe.

The spectacle finished with a firework display over the Brandenburg Gate, which for nearly three decades stood in a no-man's land close to the wall.

The event was billed by organisers as a metaphor for the way the real wall came down exactly 20 years ago and the resulting fall of communist countries in eastern Europe.

AP