Berlin Overview--Highlights of Europe's Greatest City
Berlin is a fascinating city and the more things change (and they have), the more they stay the same. We’ve designed a Berlin tour just for you that covers all the main sights in Berlin’s historical core.
With Berlin&Beyond, you’ll walk through the legendary Brandenburg Gate, cross the Death Strip of the Berlin Wall, stand above Hitler’s Bunker, and do an incredible amount more.
Our all-encompassing tour is more than a list of sights, it is a true Berlin experience, where your guide weaves the incredible stories of this city into a comprehensive overview that ranges from Berlin’s origins as a Slavic fishing village, to the splendor of Prussia, the rise of Berlin as the capital of a world-power, the emergence of the Nazis, and Berlin’s post-war rebirth.
Witness Berlin, the gateway between east and west, the crossroads of a turbulent history, and truly European metropolis.
We go slow enough and make plenty of stops to take pictures. We can adapt this tour to suit any interest.
Your Berlin Tour will typically include the following sites.
- Brandenburg Gate
- Paris Sqare
- Unter den Linden
- 1936 Olympic Stadium (site of the 2006 Soccer World)
- Charlottenburg Palace
- Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
- Siegessäule: the Victory Column
- Potsdamer Platz
- Tiergarten: The Royal Hunting Grounds
- Reichstag: the seat of Germany's parliament , the Bundestag, with the famous Norman Foster Dome
- Site of SS and Gestapo HQs (Topography of Terror)
- Nazi Air Ministry
- Hitler's Bunker (we show you where the bunker was and stand above it. You can't go inside)
- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Holocaust Memorial)
- Checkpoint Charlie
- The Berlin Wall
- The "Deathstrip"
- Gendarmenmarkt
- Museum Island and Pleasure Garden (Lustgarten)
- Pergamon Museum
- Bebelplatz, scene of the Nazi Bookburning
- St. Hedwigs Silesian Cathedral
- Humboldt University
- State Opera
- War Memorial for the Victims of Militarism and Fascism (Neue Wache)
- Berlin Cathedral
- TV Tower (that tall thing that looks like an asparagus)
- Royal Armoury (Zeughaus)
- Palace Square (Schlossplatz)
- Red Town Hall
- Russian Embassy
- Friedrichstrasse (1920s Isherwood and Marlene Dietrich)