Berlin Trip Overview
Discover Berlin’s grandest boulevard, Tom Cruise’s favourite sausage stand, Museum Island, the Reichstag, and the Jewish Memorial at your own pace with a self-guided GPS audio tour. Explore parts of the city you’d only heard of in the movies and history books with three audio tours by best-selling author Rory MacLean (Berlin: Imagine a City, Stalin’s Nose, and Pravda Ha Ha).
Rory has known three Berlins: West Berlin where he made movies with David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich, East Berlin where he researched his first bestseller, and now the unified capital. Dive into his Berlin when you buy all three of his tours for the price of two!
The three routes include a tour of Kurfürstendamm – the capital’s grandest boulevard; a tour of Museum Island; and a tour of Berlin’s often tumultuous and endlessly fascinating history which unfolds in the city centre. All of which you can explore on your own schedule and at your own pace.
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Duration: 20 to 150 minutes
Starts: Berlin, Germany
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Discover Berlin’s grandest boulevard, Tom Cruise’s favourite sausage stand, Museum Island, the Reichstag, and the Jewish Memorial at your own pace with a self-guided GPS audio tour. Explore parts of the city you’d only heard of in the movies and history books with three audio tours by best-selling author Rory MacLean (Berlin: Imagine a City, Stalin’s Nose, and Pravda Ha Ha).
Rory has known three Berlins: West Berlin where he made movies with David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich, East Berlin where he researched his first bestseller, and now the unified capital. Dive into his Berlin when you buy all three of his tours for the price of two!
The three routes include a tour of Kurfürstendamm – the capital’s grandest boulevard; a tour of Museum Island; and a tour of Berlin’s often tumultuous and endlessly fascinating history which unfolds in the city centre. All of which you can explore on your own schedule and at your own pace.
Itinerary
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Pass By: Berlin, Berlin
The three tours take place in Berlin
Pass By: Kurfurstendamm, 10707 Berlin Germany
The Ku’damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour takes place in Kurfurstendamm.
Pass By: Breitscheidplatz, 10787 Berlin Germany
The Breitscheidplatz square is part of the Ku’damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.
If it’s Christmas time, you’ll see around you one of Berlin’s biggest Weihnachtsmarkts. If it’s springtime, you may be surrounded by an Easter fair.
Pass By: Bikini Berlin, Budapester Str. 38-50, 10787 Berlin Germany
You’ll see the relatively new ‘concept’ shopping mall called Bikini Berlin. You can pop into its designer shops and the self-proclaimed ‘ultrahip’ 25Hours Hotel for a drink in the so-called Monkey Bar, which overlooks the Zooilogischer Garten.
From Ku’damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.
Pass By: Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin Germany
You’ll visit the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtiskirche or Kaiser Wilhelm Chuch. It was destroyed by Allied bombs in 1943 and rebuilt in the early 1960s. Its stained glass was designed by the French artist Gabriel Loire and it’s among the most beautiful — and soothing — in the world.
From Ku’damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.
Pass By: Bier’s Kudamm 195, Kurfürstendamm 195, 10707 Berlin, Germany
Bier’s Ku’damm 195 is where former Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, tennis star Boris Becker and even Tom Cruise munched on currywurst and you can too!
From Ku’damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.
Pass By: Museum Island, Museum Island, Berlin
The A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour takes place on – you guessed it! – Museum Island.
Pass By: Am Lustgarten 1 Museum Island, 10178 Berlin Germany
Start the A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour next to the fountain at Lustgarten.
Pass By: Werderscher Market, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Walk through Werderscher Market.
From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
Pass By: Altes Museum, Am Lustgarten, 10178 Berlin Germany
The Altes Museum – which was opened in 1830 – was one of the first purpose-built museums in Europe. It was created to house the royal collection of sculptures, paintings and antiques and was conceived to be pedagogic, exhibiting art both to educate and to aggrandise the nation.
From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
Pass By: Neues Museum, Bodestrasse 1-3, 10178 Berlin Germany
Its history of the museum is fascinating. Friedrich August Stüler’s neoclassical building was erected in 1847. During the Second World War, it was badly damaged. After the reunification, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation – along with other government bodies – chose not to simply restore the museum to its pre-war state. Instead, they decided to preserve its strange chronology – to quote Chipperfield – by linking together original material, war-and weather-damaged sections as well as modern elements. The result is a museum that can be read like a history book. The fabric of the building tells the story of Berlin.
From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
Pass By: Bode Museum, Am Kupfergraben Entrance over the Monbijou bridge, 10117 Berlin Germany
You pass by the museum and at the end of A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour you have the opportunity to visit the museum.
Pass By: Pergamon Museum, Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin, Germany
You’ll pass by and have the opportunity to visit the museum at the end of the A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
Pass By: Reichstag Building, Platz der Republik 1, 10557 Berlin Germany
The Into the Heart of Berlin tour starts with a great view of the Reichstag from here. It’s far from the oldest building in Berlin but it is one of the two or three structures that best evoke the city’s torturous, and sometimes euphoric, history.
Pass By: Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin Germany
You’ll pass by the Brandenburg Gate and hear what it was like when Communist East Germany finally collapsed in 1989.
From Into the Heart of Berlin tour.
Pass By: The Holocaust Memorial – Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, 10117 Berlin Germany
Pass through the Jewish memorial and allow yourself to take in the 2,711 concrete stelae. Try to reflect on how architect Peter Eisenman positioned the outer slabs. They’re low against the ground so that they seem to fan out into the whole city.
From Into the Heart of Berlin tour.
