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Landmarks
Berlin
The Berlin Philharmonie, in the Kulturforum district next to Potsdamer Platz, is one of the world's most famous concert halls and a landmark of postwar architecture. Designed by Hans Scharoun, the golden building is home to the Berlin Phil…
Museums
Berlin
The Bode Museum (Bode-Museum) sits at the northern tip of Berlin's Museum Island, a striking neo-Baroque building with a green dome rising above the River Spree. It holds the Sculpture Collection, the Museum of Byzantine Art, and the Coin…
Gardens & parks
Berlin
The Berlin Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten Berlin) in the Dahlem district covers more than 43 hectares (about 106 acres) and grows around 22,000 plant species, making it one of the largest and most important botanical gardens in the w…
Museums
Berlin
The German Museum of Technology (Deutsches Technikmuseum) in Berlin's Kreuzberg district is one of the largest technology museums in Germany and among the most popular things to do in Berlin, with more than 700,000 visitors in 2023. Set on…
Gardens & parks
Berlin
The Gardens of the World (Gärten der Welt) in Berlin take you on a botanical trip around the globe without leaving the city. In the eastern district of Marzahn you can wander through a Chinese garden with a lotus pond and pavilions, a tran…
Historic sites & memorials
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The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is the former central remand prison of the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. Political prisoners were interrogated and psychologically broken here, in a restricted zone that did not appear on East Be…
Gardens & parks
Berlin
Großer Tiergarten is a 210-hectare (about 520-acre) park in the heart of Berlin and one of the largest urban parks in Germany. Lakes, a rose garden, memorials, and open meadows lie between the Brandenburg Gate, the zoo, and the government…
Landmarks
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The Hackesche Höfe are a set of eight connected courtyards in Berlin's Mitte district, a short walk from Hackescher Markt station. Built in the early 1900s, the complex mixes Art Nouveau architecture with shops, cafes, a cinema, a variety…
Museums
Berlin
The Hamburger Bahnhof is Berlin's national museum of contemporary art, set inside a grand 1840s railway terminus just a few minutes' walk from Berlin Central Station. Part of the Nationalgalerie, it shows Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol along…
Palaces
Berlin
Jagdschloss Grunewald, a Renaissance hunting lodge on the shore of Grunewaldsee lake, is the oldest surviving palace in Berlin. Hidden in the Grunewald forest in the leafy Dahlem district, it combines a lakeside walk with an excellent art…
Other
Berlin
It all began as a bridle path. Around 1542 Elector Joachim II had a causeway laid across marshy ground so he could ride more comfortably from the Berlin City Palace to his Grunewald hunting lodge. That "Elector's causeway" became the Kurfü…
Museums
Berlin
From 1961 to 1989 the Berlin Wall ran right in front of its main entrance, and visitors had to go in through the back. Today the Martin-Gropius-Bau, or Gropius Bau for short, is one of Berlin's most important exhibition venues. The Renaiss…
Gardens & parks
Berlin
Mauerpark (Wall Park) in Berlin lies on the former border strip between the districts of Prenzlauer Berg and Gesundbrunnen. Today it is a lively public park with grassy hills, a graffiti wall, and an amphitheater, famous for its Sunday fle…
Viewpoints
Berlin
The Müggelturm is an observation tower in Berlin's Köpenick district, set on a wooded hill in the Müggelberge, the city's highest natural hills. Climb 126 steps and you get a sweeping view over Lake Müggelsee, the Dahme River and miles of…
Museums
Berlin
The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Natural History Museum) is the largest natural history museum in Germany and one of the best things to do in central Berlin. In its glass-roofed main hall you stand beneath the skeleton of Giraffatitan, re…
Museums
Berlin
A black steel roof, 64.8 metres square and weighing 1,260 tonnes, rests on just eight columns above a hall made entirely of glass. The Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum is the last work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the only buildi…
Museums
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The Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island is home to the world-famous bust of Nefertiti. It also houses the Museum of Prehistory and Early History, with the golden Berlin Gold Hat and Heinrich Schliemann's finds from Troy. Just as memorab…
Landmarks
Berlin
The Oberbaum Bridge in Berlin is a red-brick landmark spanning the River Spree between the districts of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain. Built in the 1890s in a neo-Gothic style, it carries an elevated U-Bahn line, a road, and walkways, and f…
Landmarks
Berlin
The Berlin Olympic Stadium (Olympiastadion) is one of the most historic sports venues in the world. Built for the 1936 Olympics, it has since hosted the 2006 World Cup final, the 2015 Champions League final and the Euro 2024 final. On non-…
Gardens & parks
Berlin
Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island) in Berlin is a car-free island in the Havel River on the city's southwestern edge, reached only by a short ferry ride. It feels worlds away from the capital: a whimsical white palace, centuries-old oaks, open m…
Palaces
Berlin
Bellevue Palace (Schloss Bellevue) in Berlin is the official residence and workplace of the German Federal President and one of the capital's best-known neoclassical buildings. The white palace stands on Spreeweg on the northern edge of th…
Palaces
Berlin
Glienicke Palace in southwest Berlin is a Neoclassical summer residence that Karl Friedrich Schinkel remodeled in Italian style for Prince Carl of Prussia. It stands in Klein-Glienicke Park right next to the Glienicke Bridge, on the border…
Monuments
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At the end of a long axis, a bronze soldier stands on an artificial burial mound. He carries a child on his left arm and with the lowered sword in his right hand shatters a swastika. The Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park is both monume…
Theme parks
Berlin
A Ferris wheel creaking in the wind for years, toppled dinosaurs in the grass, an overgrown roller coaster: for more than two decades the Spreepark in Plänterwald was one of Germany's best-known abandoned places. Before that, as the Kultur…