Half-Day Private Berlin Essentials Walking Tour

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

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

A moving monument to two groups historically labelled as 'gypsies'. At least 500,000 members of these communities were murdered by the Nazi dictatorship

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

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

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

Designed by Peter Eisenmann, this memorial continues to inspire a diverse array of reactions an interpretations.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Berlin's oldest university, from which over 30 Nobel Prize winners emerged

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

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

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

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.