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Berlin Attractions & ActivitiesSightseeing
Our Sightseeing category provides a feast for the eyes. Why? Because most all of our selections are famous places that you can view and take pictures of to show everyone back home. Landmarks, sculptures, historic homes, historic districts, cemeteries, water fountains, and statues are just a hint of the sights we've selected.
Address: Alexanderplatz, Berlin 10178
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Since the end of Communism in 1989, this bustling eastern square has enjoyed an ongoing transformation. The railway station splits the area in half, with the Platz proper on one side and the Marx-Engels Forum and Television Tower on the other. Be sure to visit the café located at the pinnacle of the Television Tower....
Address: Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, Berlin 10117
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Perhaps one of Berlin's most solemn – and controversial – sites, the Holocaust Memorial occupies a wide expanse between Brandenburger Tor and Potsdamer Platz. Exactly 2711 concrete slabs form a chilling grey grid over the area known as the Field of Stelae. The stelae represent the horrible scope of the Holocaust and...
Address: Pariser Platz, Unter den Linden/Strasse des 17 Juni, Berlin 10117
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Built in 1791 as a customs collection post and recalling the design of the Acropolis's Propylaea, this formidable columned structure has served as an icon of both German factionalism and solidarity. In 1961, the Wall was built and the gate sealed off. After the Wall fell in 1989, the area was reopened to the public....
Address: Unter den Linden, Berlin
An equestrian statue of this notorious Prussian king overlooks the legendary Unter den Linden boulevard. In 1945, the statue was sent to nearby Potsdam, the city where Frederick built his monumental palace, but it was returned in 1980. Today, it towers above a landscape of symmetrically aligned trees, Humboldt...
Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand
Address: Stauffenbergstraße 13-14, Berlin 10785
This fascinating educational center chronicles the resistance movement to National Socialism from 1933 to 1945 via exhibits, archival material, and events. The center also oversees a memorial honoring the nearly 3000 people murdered at the Plötzensee prison from 1933 to 1945. S-BAHN and U-BAHN: Potsdamer Platz
Address: Rosenthaler Strasse 40-41, Berlin 10178
These nine interwoven business and residential courtyards were completed in 1906. After surviving both World Wars, Hackesche Höfe was completely renovated in the 1990s, making it one of Berlin's most frequented areas. Europe's largest surviving system of courtyards is a charming matrix of shops, cafés and restaurants,...
Address: Herbert-Baum-Straße 45, Berlin 13088
This cemetery is noted as the burial site of Herbert Baum, leader of a secret Jewish resistance movement in Berlin during the rise of the Third Reich. In 1942, Baum and his supporters were arrested for burning a Nazi propaganda display. Baum later died in prison, and the remaining members of the movement were...
Address: Unter den Linden 4, Berlin 10117
Built following the revolt against Napoleon with a design by Schinkel, Neue Wache recalls a Roman castrum. After the November Revolution of 1918, the building was vacant for several years, until serving as a World War I memorial in 1931. The Nazis later converted the facility into a "Reich Memorial," although it was...
Address: Pariser Platz, Berlin
Positioned between Brandenburg Gate and Unter den Linden, this square was named in honor of the 1814 capture of Paris. Prior to World War II, it was flanked by embassies and was the grandest square in Berlin. Massive damage during the war and the subsequent division of Berlin turned the square into a veritable "no...
