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Rude Bastards tour of Berlin
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Private City Kickstart Tour: Berlin
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4 hours walking tour "The Best of Berlin"
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Top Attractions in Berlin

1. Reichstag Building

Points of Interest & Landmarks • Architectural Buildings

Mitte (Borough)

By by TheExplorerFamily

This is Berlin's Parliament Building that was restored after World War II.

2. Memorial of the Berlin Wall

Historic Sites

Mitte (Borough)

By by Sagri2013

It is now a piece of history which divided the city from 1961 to 1989 creating an ‘Iron Curtain’, a cause of…

3. Pergamonmuseum

Art Museums

Mitte (Borough)

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Temporarily closed

The Pergamon Museum was constructed in 1930 and is a huge three wing complex displaying antiquities on a grand scale…

4. Museum Island

Speciality Museums • Points of Interest & Landmarks

Mitte (Borough)

By by UKRoamTheEarth

This museum is a series of rooms containing ancient and monumental buildings from Turkey that have been removed from…

5. Friedrichstadt-Palast

Points of Interest & Landmarks • Architectural Buildings

Mitte (Borough)

Admission tickets from £28.99

By by Yarramalong

The history of the Friedrichstadt Palast dates back to a circus arena with 5.000 seats, which replaced a market hall at…

6. Brandenburg Gate

Points of Interest & Landmarks • Monuments & Statues

Mitte (Borough)

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Open now

More than just Berlin’s only surviving historical city gate, this site came to symbolise Berlin’s Cold War division…

7. Topography of Terror

Speciality Museums

Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Borough)

This modern building is situated on the site of the most important institutions of Nazi terror and persecution between…

8. The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Monuments & Statues

Mitte (Borough)

By by MsCollinka

Located between the Brandenburg Gate and the Tiergarten, this memorial has become an integral part of linking Berlin's…

9. East Side Gallery

Historic Sites • Points of Interest & Landmarks

Friedrichshain

Within three months of the breach of the Berlin Wall this longest remaining section, 1.3 km in length, was descended…

10. Berliner Dom

Architectural Buildings • Churches & Cathedrals

Mitte (Borough)

This listed building comprises a central ministry church under the dome and the church baptism and marriage.

11. Neues Museum

Speciality Museums • Art Museums

Mitte (Borough)

By by sam101645

Created from limestone in the 14th century Neuses Museum is the current home of this historic bust.

12. German Museum of Technology

Science Museums

Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Borough)

By by andreww469

Based on two side-by-side roundhouses, the display chronologically traced the history of railways with many historical…

13. Tiergarten

Gardens

Mitte (Borough)

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Open now

By by PhilippoBlues

The city provides constant reminders of the Second World War, and its long division into two mutually exclusive halves.

14. Charlottenburg Palace

Historic Sites • Castles

Charlottenburg

By by Deluxpinion

This palace tells the story of the Kings of Prussia that occupied it from the beginning and how it grew and developed…

15. Zoo Berlin

Zoos • Aquariums

Mitte (Borough)

By by vidpersaud

This is the oldest zoo in Germany, opened in 1844, it has acquired over the years numerous known and exotic species…

16. Deutsches Historisches Museum

Speciality Museums • Points of Interest & Landmarks

Mitte (Borough)

By by johnrK9899PI

This two-floor museum is packed to the rafters with history dating from the medieval era to German reunification in the…

17. Olympiastadion Berlin

Arenas & Stadiums

Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (Borough)

Admission tickets from £7.27

Originally designed for the 1936 Summer Olympics by Werner March, today Olympiastadion stands as a restored icon of…

18. Gemaldegalerie

Art Museums

Mitte (Borough)

By by TravellingMatt36

This museum comprises many world-famous artists until the 18th century.

19. Gendarmenmarkt

Points of Interest & Landmarks

Mitte (Borough)

By by richardmP1661JV

This houses a series of exhibitions on the history of Germany and Berlin which snakes ever upward into the upper…

20. Classic Remise Berlin

Speciality Museums

Mitte (Borough)

By by mattmurphy18

Inside these are hundreds of millions worth of examples from the car world - displayed like parked jewels.

21. Berliner Philharmonie

Symphonies • Architectural Buildings

Mitte (Borough)

Built during the cold war times, this cultural building achieves in bringing out the best of the sixitie's cold war era…

22. Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

Religious Sites

Charlottenburg

By by scouse1941

Over 20,000 panels of stained glass make up the walls of the modern Church, consecrated on May 25, 1962 - the same day…

23. German Spy Museum Berlin

Speciality Museums • History Museums

Mitte (Borough)

By by 929KevinP

Telling the story of spying and espionage from early history to the current day, this is a high tech interactive…

24. Berlin-Hohenschonhausen Memorial

Historic Sites

Lichtenberg (Borough)

By by barefootlucy

The permanent exhibit includes thousands of artifacts from the prisoners, the guards and the prison , and offers a…

25. Museum fuer Naturkunde

Natural History Museums

Mitte (Borough)

By by TAUSER7NOVE_P

The museum has a patterns of numerous animals, birds, fishes saved there.

26. Stasi Museum

Speciality Museums

Lichtenberg

By by ElaineAndGreg

The museum is housed in the headquarters of this vast enterprise.

27. Palace of Tears

History Museums

Mitte (Borough)

By by Mvigilius

Set in the original site of the transit room between East and West Berlin at the Friedrichstrasse, this site brings you…

28. Victory Column (Siegessaule)

Monuments & Statues

Mitte (Borough)

By by macedonboy

At almost 70 metres high, the column is topped a glorious statue of winged Victoria.

29. Treptower Park

Parks

Treptow-Köpenick (Borough)

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Open now

By by dralejandrod

This is the largest war memorial of Berlin, built by Stalin after the war is a testimony of the Soviet idealism of the…

30. Prenzlauer Berg

Neighbourhoods

Prenzlauer Berg

By by 158barbaraj

The reconstruction of this area provides color, maintains historical architectural details.

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