Explore Berlin
Quick Overview
Description
Time
10:00 daily
14:30 June, July, August
Duration
3 hours
Meeting Point
Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin
Prices
Adult
18+
€19.90
Senior / Student / Youth
under 18, over 65
€17.90
WelcomeCard
€17.90
Children
0-12
free
Required Transport Ticket
No ticket required
Highlights
- Get to understand Berlin in three hours with an expert professional Insider guide
- Learn all about the Third Reich and Cold War – Berlin – the epicentre of two dictatorships in the twentieth century
- See the Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate.
- Visit Museum Island a world UNESCO heritage site with 5 world class museums
- See the new reconstructed Prussian royal family palace (Humboldt Forum)
- Walk down the royal boulevard and visit palaces, churches and royal the Concert House
- Stand on the location of where at least 20,000 books were burned by fanatical Nazi supporters in 1933
- Touch the Berlin Wall and learn about the perfection of the so called “death strip area”
- Walk past the Goering’s enormous Airforce ministry on your way to Hitlers bunker
- Experience the powerful Memorial dedicated to the Murdered Jews of Europe
- Stand above Hitler’s bunker and hear the blow by blow account of the last days of WW2.
- Stand at Checkpoint Charlie and hear the story about the tank standoff between the US and UUSR in 1961.
Starting Point
Meet at our guide on the square next to the Palace of Tears, Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin.
Description
Stroll down Berlin’s royal boulevard, Unter den Linden, and retrace the city’s evolution from a fishing village into the capital of Prussia, a centre of the Enlightenment under Frederick the Great, the scene of occupation by Napoleon, and the capital of Bismarck’s German empire.
Delve deep into the history of Berlin from the time of the Teutonic Knights through to its key role in the major events of the twentieth century, as capital of the Nazi Third Reich, as the divided capital of the Cold War, and as the modern capital of a unified Germany in the new Europe!
You’ll see Goering’s former Luftwaffe HQ and the site of Himmler’s former SS & Gestapo HQ at the Topography of Terror. Walk through the Memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe and over the site of Hitler’s Bunker. Enter the moving Memorial Dedicated to the Victims of War and Tyranny. Go to the location where Nazi’s burned books in the infamous 1933 book-burning. See a section of the Berlin Wall. Spend time at Checkpoint Charlie, the place where an American-Soviet standoff took place and WWIII felt like an imminent threat. See one of the only locations where the Berlin Wall still stands on it’s original location.
Learn about the tumultuous years of the Reichstag building- it’s history from the German Empire, the failed democracy of the Weimar Republic, the rise of the Nazi’s in 1933, how it was trapped at the Berlin Wall during the Cold War years and how it symbolizes the transparency of German democracy today.
This tour finishes with a flourish at the historic and picturesque Pariser Platz, right in front of the beautiful Brandenburg Gate and close to the famous Hotel Adlon.
Your Insider guide will happily point you in the direction of your next destination or give advice on how you can maximise your time in Berlin.
Finishing Point
Brandenburg Gate.
Insider Route
The following sites are an example of our approximate route on this tour. You will see and learn stories about all these sites and many more! The route may change any day, given circumstances on the day.
- Meeting Point: Reichstagufer 17, on the square beside the Palace of Tears
- Neue Wache, memorial to the victims of war and tyranny.
- Humboldt University
- Museums Island UNESCO site
- Humboldt Forum, the new city palace which was completely rebuilt and opened in 2021
- Bebelplatz – the Bibliothek, memorial to the site of the Nazi book-burning
- Gendarmenmarkt, the most beautiful square in Berlin
- Checkpoint Charlie, Cold War checkpoint and site of tank stand off between the Soviet Union and the USA in 1961
- Berlin Wall at Niederkirchnerstraße and the Topography of Terror exhibition
- Nazi Airforce Ministry
- Site of Hitler’s bunker
- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
- Reichstag house of parliament
- Brandenburg Gate
Insider Reviews
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