Full day walking tour

  • Tour
  • Walking
  • 7.0 hrs

Description

Full day walking tour

During this tour we will see the most important monuments and places of interest in Berlin from the outside and get the basic information about every one of them.

GERMAN CANCILLERIA, here we will illustrate with themes of the history from the first Imperial Chancellor to the present Chancellor Angela Merkel.
REICHSTAG-GERMAN PARLIAMENT, historical or building since the founding of the Second Reich of the German Empire, a monument that brings us stories of the past, such as Prussian glory, World War I, the disastrous Weimar Republic, Hitler's rise to power, World War II, the Holocaust.etc.
THE DOOR OF BRANDENBURG, a monument that is linked to many events of history, disastrous and glorious events, as well as the conquest of Berlin by Napoleon, the War of Liberation against the French Empire, the Conquest of Paris, World War I and the Legend Of the Stab by the Back, a legend that fueled and strengthened the rapid rise of anti-Semitism and National Socialism to power, the NAZIS march with torches celebrating Hitler's rise to power, etc.
PLAZA PARIS of the Brandenburg Gate
ACADEMY OF ARTS, place of work of the Nazi architect Albert Speer, where he had his models of his megalomaniacal plan to convert to Berlin from 1950, in the capital of the world.
MONUMENT TO THE HOLOCAUST, in memory of the more than six million Jews murdered under the NAZI regime, here we will stroll through its labyrinthine alleys to feel the intentions of art of its architect constructor.
Place where was the Bücher de HITLER, National Socialist government district, place where many Nazi hierarchs got by the most cowardly decision; The suicide, not to fall in the hand of its captors.
QUARTERS OF LA GESTAPO, thanks to its documentation center recently inaugurated by the Topography of Terror Foundation, we can illustrate how a handful of street thugs become a professional political police force, who committed the most heinous crimes in the history of humanity.
NAZI MINISTRY OF AVIATION, by Hermann Göhring.
WALL OF BERLIN, original construction of the Wall
CHECKPOINT CHARLIE, border crossing between the Soviets and Americans, inevitable place to discuss issues about the Berlin Division, the Cold War, why the construction of the Wall, and why it fell.
GENDARMENMARKT, flanked by its two twin cathedrals, a place that will take us historically to the beginning of the Prussian boom, the persecution of the French Calvinists, etc.
BEBELPLATZ, surrounded by monumental buildings of Frederick II the "Great", a place that the Nazis chose to carry out the extermination of German culture, here the books were burned in May 1933. UNTER DEN LINDEN, under the Tilos, the road Oldest of Berlin that united the royal castle with the Palace of Charlottenburg.
MONUMENT AGAINST WARS AND TYRANNIES, to appreciate a heartbreaking sculpture "Mother with her dead child", by Käthe Kollwitz, a Berlin artist.
MUSEUM OF NATIONAL HISTORY, former Royal Armory, place where another attempt of attempt against Hitler was carried out.
THE ISLAND OF THE MUSEUMS, a haven for the arts and sciences, a whim of the Prisenian kings.
BERLINER DOM, the largest and oldest Protestant cathedral in Germany.
JEWISH QUARTER, the largest Jewish quarter in Germany, here we can see:
• The imposing Synagogue with its golden dome, symbol of the resurgent Jewish community in Berlin.
• First Hebrew cemetery in Berlin, desecrated by GESTAPO in 1943.
• Labyrinth of 8 courtyards dating from 1907 and housing the largest Jewish community in Europe.
• Asylum for the elderly, used by the Nazis as a deportation center during the Holocaust
• Missing House erased by World War II bombs
• Otto Weidt Museum and workshops that served as hiding places for Jews during the Holocaust

 

Duration

7 hrs

Details

  • English speaking guide is included in the price, transfers and entrance fees are not included in the price.