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Exploring East- and West-Berlin

See the most important sites of the City-West – around the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church – and the old city center, located in East-Berlin – east of the Brandenburg Gate.

In between these two centers you will experience during our walking tour Berlin West to East
a ride with one of the yellow doubledecker busses, the typical public transport bus in Berlin.
You will drive with our guide  from Kurfürstendamm, West-Berlins grand boulevard, via the diplomatic quarter to Potsdamer Square. Our professional guide will show the amazing architecture of Helmut Jahns Sony Center, before you will walk with him via Holocaust Memorial to Brandenburg Gate and Government Quarter.
The highlight on this tour is “Mitte”, the historical city centre with beautiful Gendarmenmarkt …

You will see the following highlights:

City-West with Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, Breidscheidplatz, Kurfürstendamm …
Bus ride (public transport) through Embassy Quarter to the Kulturforum.
Potsdamer Platz,  Holocaust-Memorial,  Government Quarter, Reichstag, Brandenburger Tor,  Gendarmenmarkt, Unter den Linden,  (Armory, Museums Island, Berlin Cathedral, Spandauer Vorstadt, Hackesche Höfe) – Sites in brackets: optional

Basics:

• Tour parameters: private, individual tour just for you
• Date and time: according to your plans
• Starting location: city-east or city-west
• Length:  min. 3 hrs
• tour characteristics: walking tour, including public transport
• Languages: engl., span., ital., french, russ. and more

Contact for guidance and booking

• Phone.: +49(0)30 61 30 58 61
• Email:   info@berlin-tour-and-guide.de

The best of both city centres – a classic

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Through Berlin`s impressing historical city center

Berlin old City Centre is definitively worth a visit. Within walking distance it is possible to see the most important historical highlights in Berlin.

Let`s start with your Walking Tour Berlin Mitte e.g. at Potsdamer Square, the new city centre directly west of where the wall was – with Daimler- and Sony-Center. The architecture of Helmut Jahn is stunning.

Our guide will take you then to the Brandenburg Gate via Holocaust Memorial and the former location of the “Führerbunker”.
From Paris Square we will take you to the most interesting historical sites of the old city center. See Berlins beautiful square, Gendarmenmarkt, and walk on via Unter den Linden to Museums Island, a unique ensemble of museums, set under Unesco World Heritage Protection in 1990.

In case you are not to tired now, our guide will show the close by Hackesche Höfe, the biggest closed courtyard system in Germany. Around this popular site you have bustling nightlife – with lots of good restaurant, bars, pubs, live music locations …

The main focus during this classical Walking Tour Berlin Mitte lies upon city history, Prussia, WorldWar II, Berlin Wall, Cold War, politics, architecture, culture, life, scene in Berlin …

Tour highlights:

Potsdamer Platz, Holocaust-Memorial, Brandenburger Tor, Government Quarter,Reichstag, Gendarmenmarkt, Friedrichstr., Unter den Linden, Zeughaus, Museums Island, Lustgarten, Berliner Cathedral, Old Museum (Spandauer Vorstadt, Hackesche Höfe, Oranienburger Str., Neue Synagoge, Tacheles, Railway Station Friedrichstr..)

Basics:

• Tour parameters: private, individual walking tour just for your group
• Date and time: according to your requests
• Starting location: e.g. Potsdamer Square or Brandenburg Gate
• Length:  min. 2 hrs
• tour characteristics: walking tour, prussian sites, but also Cold War sites
• Languages: engl., span., ital., french, russ. and more

Contact for guidance and booking

• Phone.: +49(0)30 61 30 58 61
• Email:   info@berlin-tour-and-guide.de

Through the old centre east of Brandenburg Gate – a must!

Through the old jewish quarter

Before World War II Spandauer Vorstadt, also known as “Scheunenviertel”  was a quarter with a high share of jewish population – since the 17th century.

The consequences of the Nazi-rule are still present, but today you will find here again a growing jewish community with a vital cultural life.

Enjoy during this important walking tour Jewish Berlin a unique quarter, rich of jewish history. Visit the oldest jewish cemetry in Berlin or the New Synagogue from 1864, opened under the presence of chancellor Bismarck. Also the former factory of Otto Weidt, kind of a Berlin Oscar Schindler,  is a must.

Learn how important the jews were in culture and commerce for the city – before the Nazis destroyed everything. Most of the Berlin jews were liberal. Primarily they considered themselves to be Germans and after this they were Jews …

Highlights of this tour:

Rosenstr. (location of the first synagoge in Berlin), Hackescher Markt, Hackesche Höfe, Sophienstr., Factory of Otto Weidt, Anne Franck House, Große Hamburger Str. (Street of Tolerance), Jewish Boys School, oldest jewish cemetery with the tomb of Moses Mendelsohn, Oranienburger Str., New Synagoge, Friedrichstr..

Basics:

• Tour parameters: private walking tour just for you (and your group)
• Date and time: up to your plans
• Starting location: Hackescher Markt, am to pm
• Length:  2 hrs
• tour characteristics: walking tour incl. jewish sites and memorials
• Languages: engl., ital.,span., french, russ. and more

Contact for guidance and booking

• Phone.: +49(0)30 61 30 58 61
• Email:   info@berlin-tour-and-guide.de

Jewish Berlin – historicals site of jewish history in Berlin

Walking Tour Spandauer Vorstadt/Courtyards

Old Berlin walking tour features “Nikolai Quarter”, Berlin`s cradle, where everything started, when Berlin was a small settlement at the eastern banks of the Spree river, was destroyed completely during World War II.
The GDR-Government restored it due to the 750 years celebration of Berlin in 1987, but not historically correct.

That`s why a real, authentic old part of town today is the Spandauer Vorstadt, formerly situated right in front of the medieval fortification walls of old Berlin.

Compared to the close-by center of Berlin, Spandauer Vorstadt survived the war rather undistroyed. With its narrow streets,  lines of baroque houses (17th century) and romantic courtyards, it belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage and is a must for every Berlin visitor.

Enjoy with us following highlights:

Hackescher Markt, Hackesche Höfe, Sophienstr. Sophie-Gips-Höfe, Sophies Ballroom, Sophien Church, Große Hamburger-Street, Oranienburger Street, Heckmannhöfe, New Synagogue, Postfuhramt, Friedrichstr. …

Basics:

• Tour parameters: individual and private walking tour
• Date and time: up to your requests
• Starting location: Hackescher Markt, am to pm
• Length:  app. 2 hrs
• tour characteristics: walking tour incl. wonderful restored courtyards
• Languages: engl., ital.,span., french, russ. and more

Contact for guidance and booking

• Phone.: +49(0)30 61 30 58 61
• Email:   info@berlin-tour-and-guide.de

Spandauer Vorstadt is a fascinating Berlin neighbourhood

Berlins fascinating architectural landscape

Interested in neoclassic, modern or post-modern architecture?  The main focus of this special Berlin tour is up to you.

The classical Walking Tour Architecture could start e.g. at Cultural Forum – the example of modern Sixties architecture by Mies van der Rohe and Hans Scharoun.

Just a short distance away you will see Sony- and Daimler-Center at old/new Potsdamer Square – a feast of excellent post-modern art of building –  by Helmut Jahn, Sir Richards Rogers, Renzo Piano and others.

Follow our Guide along the former no-men`s land via the impressing Holocaust Memorial of Peter Eisenman to a little touch of 18th century neoclassic architecture – the well known Brandenburg Gate.

After that it is high time to turn around and admire at Paris Square a wonderful work of Gehry, the creator of Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
We close this inspiring tour usually in the new Government Quarter. North of the dominating parliament building, the Reichstag, built till 1894 by Wallot, you will find the “Ribbon of the Federation” the three new government buildings and the new central station, the excellent work of Meinhard Gerkan.

This Architecture Walking Tour Berlin is a must for aficionados of grand architecture.

Architectural highlights of this tour:

Cultural Forum and Philharmonie (Scharoun), Potsdamer Square, Sony Center (Helmut Jahn), Leipziger Square with Canadian Embassy, Holocaust Memorial (Peter Eisenmann), Pariser Platz and DZ-Bank (Gehry), Academy of the Arts (Behnisch), Government Quarter, Ribbon of Government Buildings, Bundeskanzleramt (Axel Schultes), Reichstag (Wallot).

Basics:

• Tour parameters: individual, exclusive walking tour
• Date and time: according to your requests
• Starting location: Potsdamer Square
• Length:  min. 2 hrs
• tour characteristics: architectural walking tour,
• can be combined e.g. with Berlin Mitte walking tour
• Languages: engl., ital., french, span., russ. and more

Contact for guidance and booking

• Phone.: +49(0)30 61 30 58 61
• Email:   info@berlin-tour-and-guide.de

Modern and post-modern architectural highlights around
Potsdamer Square

Through Berlins new and old government quarter

During our walking tour Political Berlin the focal point is the political importance of Berlin in history and today – especially during World War II and Cold War.
Our knowledgeable guide will show you the old Government Quarter, where Hitlers favorite architect Speer once built the “New Reichs-Chancellary” as well as the new Government Quarter with the Reichstag, seat of parliament.
Also we deal with the history of the Berlin Wall, walking along the former death-strip via Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Square to Checkpoint Charlie.

Walking Tour Political Berlin – basics:

• Tour parameters: private walking tour exclusively for you
• Date and time: according to your plans – if you book right in time
• Starting location: Reichstag or Checkpoint Charlie
• Length:  min. 2 hrs
• tour characteristics: walking tour through the old and new government quarter, can be combined e.g. with Berlin Mitte walking tour
• Languages: engl., span., ital., span., russ. and more

Contact for guidance and booking

• Phone.: +49(0)30 61 30 58 61
• Email:   info@berlin-tour-and-guide.de

Tour “Political Berlin” – highly recommended also for students

Wild Berlin – exploring multicultural Kreuzberg

Kreuzberg, a meltingpot of different nationalities living here more or less peacefully together, is a living, authentic quarter off the beaten track. During the Cold War Kreuzberg was surrounded from three sites by the Berlin Wall and developed to vibrant nighlife place. Up to today Kreuzberg is the most interesting Berlin neighbourhood – in spite or because of fascinating social and ethnic diversity.

See following sites during our Walking Tour Berlin Kreuzberg:

Landwehrkanal, Fraenkelufer, Synagogue, Kottbusser Tor, Oranienstr., along the former Wall to the Engelbecken, Mariannenplatz, Künstlerhaus Bethanien …

Basics:

• Tour parameters: private walking tour just for your group
• Date and time: up to you
• Starting location: e.g. Kottbusser Tor
• Length:  min. 2 hrs
• tour characteristics: walking tour, highly recommended for students and school classes
• Languages: engl., ital., french, span., russ. and more

Contact for guidance and booking

• Phone.: +49(0)30 61 30 58 61
• Email:   info@berlin-tour-and-guide.de

Kreuzberg is Berlins most fascinating neighbourhood

Potsdam Sightseeing by foot

Beautiful Potsdam is located about 35 km (23 miles) southwest of Berlin and can be reached easily by commuter trains (S-Bahn).
Once the favorite residential town of the prussian kings, where they seeked refuge from polital business in Berlin,  Potsdam is rich of historical sites, such as palaces and baroque quarters. The most known palace is for sure Sanssouci palace, but there are more – like the grand New Palais or the Orangerie Palace of the 19th century.
But Potsdam has also quite a few important Cold War sites, such as Glienicke Bridge, the border between West-Berlin and GDR –  famous because of spy exchange – or Cecilienhof Palace, where the Big Three (Truman, Churchill, Stalin) signed the Potsdam agreement after the war.

Main highlights during our walking tour Potsdam:

Historic city center with Nikolaikirche and City Palace,  New Market, Old Market, Bassinplatz, Dutch Quarter, Brandenburg Gate, Sanssouci Palace and Gardens.

If you book early, we can arrange an inside visit of Sanssouci Palace

Basics:

• Tour parameters: pivate walking tour, exclusively for you (and your group)
• Date and time: according to your schedule
• Starting location: e.g. Potsdam Central Station, if you come from Berlin
• Length:  min. 3 hrs
• tour characteristics: walking tour with historical sites of central Potsdam
• Languages: engl., french, ital., span., russ. ….

Contact for guidance and booking

• Phone.: +49(0)30 61 30 58 61
• Email:   info@berlin-tour-and-guide.de

Potsdam is a beautiful Unesco World Heritage site