Walking Tours
Cold War Berlin: A Divided City
123 min6.8 km9 stops
Walk the line that once split Berlin in two. This tour begins at the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse and follows the old Cold War border south through the Palace of Tears border crossing and Checkpoint Charlie, before ending at the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag. It tells the story of the Berlin Wall: its construction in 1961, the people who tried to cross it, and its fall in 1989. The walk starts near the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse and ends at Platz der Republik, near the Bundestag underground and city-train station.
Best of Berlin
107 min5.9 km8 stops
Berlin's essential walk: from the glass dome of the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate, past the Holocaust Memorial and rebuilt Potsdamer Platz, along the former line of the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie, through the elegant twin-cathedral square of Gendarmenmarkt and the UNESCO museums of Museum Island, to the TV Tower at Alexanderplatz.
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Made for headphones
Narration starts as you reach each stop, so your eyes stay on the city.
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Works offline
Download the tour at the hotel. No roaming data needed on the street.
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