Memorials and Monuments: A Self-Guided Audio Tour in Berlin

This self-guided audio tour starts in the shadow of the Reichstag, at the heart of political Germany, where I’ll show you poignant and often overlooked memorials that most tourists miss.

Listen to the story of the Sinti and Roma people and learn about their plight.

The Ronald Reagan plaque, commemorating the politician’s 1987 visit, when he exclaimed: “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Tear down this Wall!”.

Celebrated artist Gerhard Marcks’ sculpture of a man shouting to East Berlin, entitled Der Rufer, created before the fall of the wall.

The two tanks that form the Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten.

Louis Toaillon’s Amazone zu Pferd (Amazon on Horseback) statue which, after many years of being moved from one spot to another, has found a permanent home in Tiergarten park.

Wolfgang Siemering’s Beethoven-Haydn-Mozart Memorial, commemorating the three great German composers.

Parade through the Brandenburg Gate like royalty.

Stroll along Pariser Platz (Parisian Square) and discover which part of the Brandenburg Gate Napoleon stole as a trophy.

Snap photos outside Hotel Adlon where Michael Jackson almost dropped his baby, Prince Michael, in 2002.

Hear about the British Embassy in Berlin and what makes it architecturally interesting.

Explore the Holocaust Memorial at your own pace.

Take in the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism and hear the controversy around it.

Berlin was a stage for some of the world’s most horrendous events in the 1900s. On this walking tour to Potsdamer Platz, you’ll hear the city’s story told through its most important monuments and landmarks.