Our Berlin Tours are customized to individual customer.
In general, the following tours can be designed for individuals and small groups.
- Select your mode of transportation
- Berlin sightseeing by foot and using public transportation 4 or 8 hours.
- Easy yet thorough walking guided tours pointing out all the major interesting architectural and historical sites. Wear comfortable shoes!
- Berlin sightseeing using private car and driver 4 or 8 hours For clients preferred to do sightseeing with some walking and comfort of private car and driver.
- Berlin sightseeing by bike.
Potsdam sightseeing from Berlin using private car and driver 4 or 8 hours.
Day Trip of can visit on the way to Prague – Dresden and Meissen, famous for it’s porcelain.
For cruise passengers from Rostock or Wardemunde we provide a transportation by private car (2.5 hour drive each way) and driver or it is possible to take a train and meet your guide in Berlin train station.
Suggested historical sights
- Wilhelm I Memorial Church
- Kurfürstendamm – West Berlin’s shopping district
- Tiergarten Park –beautiful and steeped in history
- Siegessäule – Victory Monument
- Bellevue Palace – Berlin home of Germany’s President, Hörst Köhler
- Congress Hall – Futuristic architecture from the 50’s!
- Chancellors’s Office
- Reichstag – The German Parliament
- Berlin Wall Site
- Brandenburg Gate – Berlin’s most famous monument
- Pariser Platz
- Potsdamer Platz – Fabulous and new. Cutting edge 21st century architecture
- Hitler’s Bunker Site – Perhap’s Berlin’s most infamous unmarked sight.
- Air Ministry – (Reichsluftfahrt-Ministerium)
- Gestapo Headquarters – (Topographie des Terrors)
- Checkpoint Charlie
- Gendarmenmarkt – A beautiful square with 2 stunning churches and Concert House
- Bebel Platz – Site of Nazi Book burnings
- St. Hedwigs Catholic Church
- New Watch War Memorial – (Neue Wache)
- Armory – (Zeughaus) New Berlin Historical Museum
- Pleasure Garden – (Lustgarten)
- Museum Island – Old, New National and Pergamon Museums
- Berliner Cathedral
- Communist Parliament Building – (Palast der Republik)
- Marx-Engels-Forum
- Red Town Hall- (Rotes Rathaus)
- Alexander Platz
- TV Tower
Architecture Tours
Berlin architecture includes medieval, neoclassic, and many modern designs. We will show you Bauhaus as well as the so-called “Stalin – Gothic” style, examples of Nazi architecture, as well as examples of Berlin’s contemporary design. Buildings in Berlin often have a confusing history because they have undergone many changes over the years. Hear the stories that will explain how these buildings became what they are today.
Sample Itinerary for a 1 day trip from Berlin to Wannsee and Potsdam (4 – 6 hours)
- Guided visit of the exhibit in the house of the Wannsee Conference (»Wannsee Conference« was concerned with the organisation and implementation of “The Final Solution”)
- Historical City of Potsdam, market place and old city gates
- Short lunch break
- Dutch quarter
- Alexandrowka, Russian quarter
- Sanssouci castle (outside) and gardens
- New Palais (outside) and gardens
- Guided visit of Cecilienhof Palace, venue of the Potsdam Conference in 1945 by the Allies
Jewish Heritage sightseeing
Sample Itinerary for a day tour (5-8 hours tour) of Jewish and overall Berlin
- Gendarmenmarkt Square
- Great boulevard Unter den Linden with classical sights like the States Opera, Humboldt University, the Old Armery, the Berlin Cathedral and Museums Island
- Tour of the old quarter of Jewish Berlin, including the memorial place of the first synagogue of Berlin, the Memorial for the Women’s Protest in Rosenstrasse, the Old Jewish Cemetery with Moses Mendelssohn’s grave, the Jewish High School, the former Jewish Girl’s School and Ahava House, the New Synagogue/Centrum Judaicum and the Leo-Baeck-House (former College for the Science of Judaism, now seat of the Central Council of the Jews in Germany and the Jewish Press Company)
- Brandenburg Gate with Paris Square
- New government area with the Reichstag, the New Chancellery, the House of Representatives
- Large Berlin inner city park Tiergarten with the street of the 17th of June, Victory Column, the Old Congress Center and the Castle Bellevue
- Memorial Sight: former Synagogue/collection camp Levetzowstrasse
- Palais Charlottenburg, Egyptian Museum, Collection Berggruen (outside)
- Memorial Sight: Platform 17, one of the former deportation train stations in Berlin
- New Israeli Embassy
- Memorial Sight: ‘Places of Remembrance’ in the Bavarian Quarter
- Jewish Community Center
- Synagogues (outside)
- Western shopping areas like the Kurfuerstendamm avenue and Tauentzien (with KaDeWe)
- Embassy area in the Tiergarten
- Cultural Forum with the New National Gallery, Philharmony, Paintings Gallery, National Library
- Jewish Museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind (outside explanations or with a guided tour inside)
- Checkpoint Charlie and remains of the Berlin Wall
- Open door exhibit: ‘Topography of Terror’
- Amazingly designed modern architectural complexes around Potsdamer Platz
- Construction sight of the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe
- Famous Friedrichstrasse
The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp near Berlin
The camp was constructed in 1936 for opponents of the Nazis who were living in Berlin. After Kristallnacht, the infamous Pogrom in 1938, thousand of Berlin’s Jews were locked up here, too. Eventually over 50,000 innocent victims were perished there. The roll-call area is still there, as are the shoe testing track and mortuary. The most moving part of the tour is station Z, the site where several thousand people where murdered and burned in the crematory. The camp became a training ground for the execution of the Holocaust and ultimately the center of the whole concentration camp system. After the Nazis were defeated, the Soviets turned the camp into a gulag for their own political enemies. Thousands more were to perish over the next five years.
Please inquire for prices: specify number of people, mode of transportation, date (first and alternate), hotel where you are staying. If you are arriving from cruise ship, advice ship and cruise name and port.