The tripto catalogue lists 65 buildings and landmarks: city gates, bridges, town halls, concert halls and modern architecture. You can see many of them on a city walk without a ticket.
The Brandenburg Gate on Pariser Platz is open around the clock and free. Just a few steps away is the Reichstag Building with Norman Foster's walk-in glass dome – the view is free but requires advance registration. In Hamburg, the Elbphilharmonie Plaza at a height of 37 metres has charged entry since October 2026 (€5), while the Speicherstadt, the largest historic warehouse district in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, remains free. The Porta Nigra in Trier is a Roman city gate from around 170 AD, and the Krämerbrücke in Erfurt carries 32 inhabited half-timbered houses over the Gera river.
Most landmarks in the catalogue are in Saxony (around 10, for example in Dresden and Leipzig), Hamburg (close to 10) and Berlin (a handful). Hamburg and Berlin lead among cities.
In practice: 45 minutes to two hours is usually enough for a landmark. About a third of the places in this category are marked as free in the catalogue, including the Brandenburg Gate, the Speicherstadt, the Stone Bridge and the Krämerbrücke. Interiors and tours charge, such as the Porta Nigra (€6) or a tour of the Semperoper (€16). Book the Reichstag dome and the Elbphilharmonie online in advance.
Landmarks
Berlin
The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is Germany's most famous landmark and the country's symbol of reunification. Built in the late 18th century as a city gate, it later stood in the no-man's-land of the Berlin Wall, and its reopening in Decembe…
Landmarks
Berlin
The Reichstag building in Berlin is the seat of Germany's federal parliament, the Bundestag, and its glass dome is one of the most popular things to do in Berlin. You can walk a spiral ramp right above the debating chamber and enjoy a 360-…
Landmarks
Hamburg
The Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg is one of the world's most spectacular concert halls and the city's modern landmark. A shimmering glass structure with a wave-shaped roof rises from an old brick warehouse on the Elbe River, and its public vi…
Landmarks
Hamburg
The Speicherstadt in Hamburg is the largest historic warehouse district in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2015. Its red-brick neo-Gothic warehouses, topped with green copper roofs and turrets, rise straight out of narrow…
Landmarks
Trier
The Porta Nigra in Trier is a massive Roman city gate begun in 170 AD and the symbol of what is often called Germany's oldest city. Built from huge sandstone blocks and darkened by centuries of weathering, the "Black Gate" survived because…
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Erfurt
The Krämerbrücke (Merchants' Bridge) in Erfurt is a medieval stone bridge lined on both sides with half-timbered houses, still lived in and filled with small shops. Erfurt bills it as the longest continuously built-up and inhabited bridge…
Landmarks
Berlin
The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is Germany's most famous landmark and the country's symbol of reunification. Built in the late 18th century as a city gate, it later stood in the no-man's-land of the Berlin Wall, and its reopening in Decembe…
Landmarks
Berlin
The Reichstag building in Berlin is the seat of Germany's federal parliament, the Bundestag, and its glass dome is one of the most popular things to do in Berlin. You can walk a spiral ramp right above the debating chamber and enjoy a 360-…
Landmarks
Hamburg
The Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg is one of the world's most spectacular concert halls and the city's modern landmark. A shimmering glass structure with a wave-shaped roof rises from an old brick warehouse on the Elbe River, and its public vi…
Landmarks
Hamburg
The Speicherstadt in Hamburg is the largest historic warehouse district in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2015. Its red-brick neo-Gothic warehouses, topped with green copper roofs and turrets, rise straight out of narrow…
Landmarks
Trier
The Porta Nigra in Trier is a massive Roman city gate begun in 170 AD and the symbol of what is often called Germany's oldest city. Built from huge sandstone blocks and darkened by centuries of weathering, the "Black Gate" survived because…
Landmarks
Lübeck
The Holsten Gate (Holstentor) in Lübeck is the brick city gate that has become a symbol of northern Germany: two squat round towers with conical roofs flanking a stepped gable, completed in 1478. It guards the western entrance to Lübeck's…
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Bremen
Bremen City Hall and the Roland statue on the city's Market Square form a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the showpiece of the old Hanseatic city of Bremen in northern Germany. Built from 1405 and later given a lavish Weser Renaissance faca…
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Regensburg
The Stone Bridge in Regensburg (Steinerne Brücke) is the oldest surviving bridge in Germany and, together with the cathedral, the city's most famous landmark. Built in the 12th century, it carries walkers and cyclists across the Danube fro…
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Erfurt
The Krämerbrücke (Merchants' Bridge) in Erfurt is a medieval stone bridge lined on both sides with half-timbered houses, still lived in and filled with small shops. Erfurt bills it as the longest continuously built-up and inhabited bridge…
Landmarks
Dresden
The Semperoper in Dresden is one of the world's great opera houses and the centerpiece of Dresden's Theaterplatz. Home to the Saxon State Opera and the Staatskapelle Dresden orchestra, it saw the world premieres of operas by Richard Wagner…
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Gablenz
The Rakotzbrücke in Kromlau, often called the Devil's Bridge, is one of the most photographed sights in Germany. Its slender stone arch is reflected so perfectly in the still waters of the Rakotzsee lake that bridge and reflection form an…
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Berlin
Potsdamer Platz in Berlin tells the story of the 20th century in a single square. In the 1920s it was one of the busiest traffic hubs in Europe; after World War II it became a no-man's-land cut in two by the Berlin Wall; and since the 1990…
Landmarks
Dessau-Roßlau
The Bauhaus Building in Dessau is the birthplace of modern design as the world knows it. Designed by Walter Gropius for the Bauhaus school and opened in December 1926, its glass curtain wall and vertical "BAUHAUS" lettering became icons of…
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München
The Hofbräuhaus am Platzl in Munich is probably the most famous beer hall in the world and a must on many first trips to Bavaria. In the heart of the Old Town, a few minutes' walk from Marienplatz, locals, regulars' clubs and visitors from…
Landmarks
Hamburg
Hamburg City Hall (Hamburger Rathaus) is the seat of the city-state's government and parliament and one of the grandest civic buildings in Germany. Its neo-Renaissance facade and soaring clock tower dominate the Rathausmarkt square in the…
Landmarks
Hamburg
The St. Pauli Piers (Landungsbrücken) in Hamburg are the city's floating harbor terminal and one of the top things to do in Hamburg. Behind a long stone hall crowned with green copper domes, ferries, harbor cruise boats and launches come a…
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Hamburg
The Jungfernstieg is Hamburg's most famous waterfront promenade, running along the Binnenalster (Inner Alster Lake) in the heart of the city. From its wide steps you look across the water to the Alster Fountain, white excursion boats and t…
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Dresden
The Procession of Princes (Fürstenzug) in Dresden is a porcelain mural about 102 meters (335 feet) long, made of some 23,000 Meissen tiles and widely described as the largest porcelain artwork in the world. It shows the rulers of Saxony's…
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Dresden
The Kunsthofpassage (Art Courtyard Passage) is a chain of five whimsically designed courtyards in Dresden's Outer Neustadt district and one of the city's most photographed spots. Its star is a sky-blue facade covered in funnels and drainpi…
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Köln
The Rheinauhafen in Cologne is a former Rhine port just south of the Old Town that has been reinvented as one of Germany's most striking waterfront districts. Listed warehouses, preserved harbor cranes and the futuristic Crane Houses line…
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Frankfurt am Main
The Eiserner Steg ("Iron Footbridge") in Frankfurt am Main is the city's best-known pedestrian bridge and one of its landmarks. The riveted steel span links the Old Town around Römerberg square with the Sachsenhausen district and the Museu…
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Leipzig
The Old Town Hall (Altes Rathaus) in Leipzig is the city's most photographed building and one of the finest Renaissance town halls in Germany. Its long facade, decorative gables, arcades and off-center tower dominate the Markt, Leipzig's m…
Landmarks
Leipzig
Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig is probably the most famous restaurant in Germany. Goethe immortalized this vaulted wine cellar beneath the Mädler Passage in his drama "Faust," and visitors from around the world still come to dine where the le…
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Aachen
Aachen Town Hall stands on the market square in Germany's westernmost major city, built on the foundations of Charlemagne's royal hall. For six centuries the coronation banquets of German kings were held here after their crowning in the ca…
Among others, the Brandenburg Gate, Hamburg's Speicherstadt, the Stone Bridge in Regensburg, the Krämerbrücke in Erfurt and Potsdamer Platz. The Reichstag dome is free after registration.
Since October 2026, yes: the Plaza costs €5, reduced €3, and children under 3 go free. Guided tours cost €13.
In Saxony (around 10 in the catalogue), Hamburg (close to 10) and Berlin. Hamburg has the most of any city.
Updated: · Opening hours and prices can change — check the attraction page before you go.