Half-Day Private Berlin Essentials Walking Tour


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From $255.92

Price varies by group size

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Pricing Info: Per Person

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Departs: Berlin, Berlin

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

In this private tour, you will discover how Berlin went from a provincial capital to one of the world's first metropolises. We'll trace the city's fate through a historical whirlwind of imperialism, democracy, dictatorship and division


What's Included

An in-depth private tour of Berlin


Traveler Information

  • YOUTH: Age: 13 - 17
  • ADULT: Age: 18 - 100

Additional Info

  • Guides required to regularly wash hands
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Brandenburg Gate
The symbol of the city since Napoleon's triumphant parade in 1806

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Reichstag Building
Home of the German Parliament since 1894 (with a few long gaps along the way...)

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
A moving monument to two groups historically labelled as 'gypsies'. At least 500,000 members of these communities were murdered by the Nazi dictatorship

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Paul-Lobe-Haus
Part of the government quarter built in the 1990s, in preparation for the German parliament moving back from the former West German capital city of Bonn

• Admission Ticket Free

Tiergarten
Berlin's Central Park; the former hunting grounds of the Prussian Aristocracy

• Admission Ticket Free

Soviet Memorial Tiergarten
A powerful and provocative memorial to Soviet soldiers who died taking Berlin in 1945

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Designed by Peter Eisenmann, this memorial continues to inspire a diverse array of reactions an interpretations.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Monument to Homosexuals Persecuted Under National Socialist Regime
Situated in the Tiergarten Park, this monument is particularly relevant to Berlin, a city that, before the Nazi era, was known to be one of the most accepting of homosexuality.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Potsdamer Platz
The former Times Square of Berlin; destroyed in WW2, ripped in half by the Berlin Wall and built anew during reunification

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Hitler's Bunker
The bunker where the Nazi dicatator ended his own life in 1945, long covered by a nondescript parking lot

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Platz des Volksaufstandes von 1953
Layer upon layer of history upon one corner - the former Air Force Ministry built by the Nazi regime, which in turn became the site of a popular uprising against the post-war Communist dictatorship.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Memorial of the Berlin Wall
One of the longest remaining pieces of the Berlin Wall, which once ran 155km around the western part of the city

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Checkpoint Charlie
A location synonymous with the tension felt on both sides of Berlin during the decades of Cold War division and occupation

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Bebelplatz
A strong candidate for the title of Berlin's most beautiful square, Bebelpatz is surrounded by buildings constructed during one of the city's more enlightened periods. In 1933, however, the Nazi's carried out their first public book burning in the centre of the square.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Humboldt University (Humboldt Universitat)
Berlin's oldest university, from which over 30 Nobel Prize winners emerged

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Neue Wache
A monument to Prussian soldiers who fell in the Napoleonic Wars, this neoclassical gem was turned into a memorial to all victims of war and tyranny in 1992

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Humboldt Forum
One of the most controversial projects in post-unification Berlin. An ideological battleground that saw two palaces being destroyed in just over half a century, only for the first to be, in a way, rebuilt and reopened in 2020

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Berliner Dom
Berlin Cathedral - a misleadingly young building that was more a symbol of imperial power than Christian devotion

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Museum Island
A Unesco World Heritage site, home to some of the best museums in Germany, and testament to the ambition of both the Prussian and German states.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free






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