What You Will Do
See Berlin from an insider’s perspective on this half-day walking tour! With your expert local guide, see Berlin’s main attractions including the Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag parliament building and Checkpoint Charlie, as well as the lesser-known places that regular tours usually miss. Learn fascinating facts about Berlin during World War 2 and the Cold War, and listen as your guide explains what life was like for Berlin’s citizens during those turbulent times.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Itinerary
Meeting Point
Meeting point: outside FRIEDRICHSTRASSE TRAIN STATION, on the square beside the 'Traenenpalast' (Palace of Tears), Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin. Our guide will be wearing a blue lanyard with a yellow name tag! If you still cannot see us, please call us at the office before the tour starts.
1
Berlin Friedrichstrasse Station
5 minutes
Start your tour from our central meeting point
2
Palace of Tears
5 minutes
Learn about this Cold War international checkpoint- also known as the Traenenpalast
3
Neue Wache
10 minutes
National memorial site reflecting on war and tyranny
4
Humboldt University (Humboldt Universitat)
5 minutes
The location where Marx, Engels and Einstein studied and taught
5
Berliner Dom
10 minutes
Biggest church in Berlin, Lustgarten, City Palace (Stadt Schloss) and the Humboldt Forum
6
Pergamonmuseum
5 minutes
Learn about Islamic art, the Ishtar Gate, the Market Gate of Miletus
7
Neues Museum
5 minutes
Learn about the Ancient Egyptian collection on a World UNESCO Heritage site
8
Altes Museum
5 minutes
Learn about the first museum built in Berlin and the very famous architect, Karl Schinkel
9
Stadtschloss Berlin
5 minutes
The brand new Humboldt Forum. See the reconstructed Hohenzollern family palace
10
Bebelplatz
5 minutes
Be enchanted by the beauty of the 18th century square
11
Book Burning Memorial at Bebelplatz
5 minutes
Stand on the location where the Nazi's burned tens of thousands of books in 1933
12
Staatsoper (Berlin)
5 minutes
The beautiful opera house built under Friedrich the Great in 1743
13
Konzerthaus
5 minutes
The spectacular Schinkel concert house completed in 1821
14
Gendarmenmarkt
10 minutes
From the period of Berlin's religious tolerance, the Calvinist French Cathedral and the Lutheran German Cathedral
15
Checkpoint Charlie
10 minutes
Cold War civilian and military checkpoint, location of tank stand-off in 1961 between Soviet and American armed forces
16
Niederkirchnerstraße
5 minutes
See a 200m long piece of the Berlin Wall
17
Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus
5 minutes
Hermann Göring's airforce ministry, East German house of ministers, German Finance Ministry
18
Fuhrerbunker
10 minutes
Stand above the location where Hitler spent the last days of WW2- the site of Hilter's bunker
19
The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
10 minutes
Walk through the Memorial dedicated to the Murdered Jews of Europe
20
Reichstag Building
German house of Parliament and government quarter
21
Brandenburg Gate
10 minutes
American Embassy, French Embassy, Hotel Adlon, Academy of Fine Arts
22
Pariser Platz
10 minutes
The American and French Embassy and the famous Hotel Adlon can all be seen from this square
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