Typical Tourist Places

 
 
 
Typical Tourist Places
 
Not So Typical Tourist Places
 
Nazi-Stuff
 
The Wall
 
Districts of Berlin
 
Public Transport
 
Berlin by bike
 
 
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  Alexanderplatz

The one place in Berlin you never can miss because of the TV-tower with its characteristic globe on top. It's a restaurant and you can see it from miles away.
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Bahnhof Zoo

Europe's sensation in 2008:
Knut, the icebear-baby. Grown up in Berlin's zoo. But Knut isn't everything, there's more to Zoo Station...
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Bergmannstraße

Only cemeteries, gravediggers and shops for gravestones?
No no, you just started your visit at the wrong end. There are other sides to this street...
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Bernauer Straße

Bernauer Str. is the only existing part of the wall with all its original fortifications, barriers, no-man’s land, death strip, floodlights and a second security wall to slow down would-be fugitives.
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Brandenburger Tor

You need a riksha for your trip through Berlin? Or a horse-powered carriage? Then Brandenburg Gate is the right place for you...
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Breitscheidplatz

Brimming with tourists, street artists, shops and restaurants of all kinds, the place is a heavily visited point of interest in Berlin’s district of Charlottenburg.
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  Bundestag

It's here, where you probably can find the longest queues in Berlin. Especially in Summer, people are queueing up for hundreds of meters. They all want to visit the huge glass cupola...
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  Checkpoint Charlie

Checkpoint Charlie was a crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War, located at the intersection of Friedrichstraße with Kochstraße.
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Eastside Gallery

1990 was THE year for Berlin's young artists. The completely naked eastern side of "THE WALL" had to be painted with graffiti. It took a couple of months, but finally the job was completed...
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  Friedrichstraße

Were the fuck is that exclusive and expensive shopping area that Friedrichstraße is famous for?
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Hackescher Markt

A central tourist area with lots of restaurants, bars, cafes and cinemas.
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Hauptbahnhof

More then just trains. Berlin's central railway station always is good for extraordinary events. For example the sand festival...
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Holocaust Memorial

This was supposed to be a memorial for the murdered Jews in Europe. Although the intentions were good, it just doesn't work out. You hardly meet people standing there, thinking about Jews...
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Kreuzberg

Free mountain climbing in Berlin? No joke. 
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Kurfürstendamm

Berlin's most famous boulevard.
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  Liebknechtbrücke

This is the place to catch a watertaxi for a one hour trip on River Spree through Berlin's inner city. The taxis actually are bigger ships, don't expect a Venice-type gondola.
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  Lustgarten & Dom

The Lustgarten ("Pleasure Garden") is a park on Museum Island in central Berlin, near the site of the former Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace), to which it originally belonged.
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  Museumsinsel

If you like to walk up and down museums for ages, this is the right place for you.
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  Niederkirchner Straße

In Niederkirchner Str. you find the most visited part of the Berlin wall. That's because it's pretty central and all sightseeing busses go here.
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  Nikolaiviertel

It's here, where it all started out in the 13th century. What today is Nikolaiviertel was then a little village called Berlin. 
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Oberbaumbrücke

In summer the bridge is great for water-battles, on new year's eve you can watch impressive fireworks.
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  Oranienburger Straße

The street is famous for its multitude of restaurants, cafes and bars, it also is a great nightlife strip and red light district.
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Potsdamer Platz

Here you can get rid of your money. The place is one huge shopping center.
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  Sony Center

It's a mix of shops, restaurants, a conference centre, hotel rooms, luxurious rented suites and condominiums, offices, art and film museums, an IMAX cinema, showing 3D movies all the time and a "Sony Style" store.
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  Sowjetisches Ehrendenkmal

The Soviet War Memorial is a vast military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park. It was built to commemorate 5,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who died in the Battle of Berlin.
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  Treptower Hafen

The harbour in the district of Treptow is one of Berlin's biggest. If you want to board a tourist ship, that's the place to go. 
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Unter den Linden

This is former East Berlin's posh boulevard. It is named for its Linden trees (lime trees) that line the grassed pedestrian mall between two carriageways. 
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  Zenner Biergarten

A pub with tradition. It started out around 1850 as a place where families could make their own coffee in the garden alongside river Spree. Well, that changed a bit...
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  Zeughaus

The street "Am Zeughaus" is Berlin's tourist market. Here you get everything you really need. Postcards, T-shirts, paintings and whatever.
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