Berlin and Potsdam

Reichstag building Berlin

A Metropolis of Many Faces

City tour to Berlin, from 175 € p.p.

Cultural tours to Berlin:

"Following in the Footsteps of Karl Friedrich Schinkel"

"Experience contemporary history — more than 20 years of German Reunification"

"Places filled with literature and art"

"In the footsteps of Great Composers" 


-> Why you should travel to Berlin

-> Highlights

-> Travel ideas and excursions

-> Arriving


Television tower Berlin

Why you should travel to Berlin:

- cosmopolitan atmosphere
- variety of cultural sights, e.g. the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag, the Alexanderplatz, Museum Island (feat. the world-renowned Pergamon Museum), Nikolai district
- three opera houses, more than 150 theatres and stages, over 175 museums and collections and some 300 galleries
- rich diversity (German & European history are tangible)
- very good value for money
- Day trips to Potsdam with Sanssouci Palace and Cecilienhof Palace
- Day trips to the Spreewald Forest
- more than a third of the city area consists of parks, forests and bodies of water
- well-developed transport infrastructure (fast accessibility)
- with its many lakes and interlinking canals, the Spree is a particularly scenic area
- good service and open, helpful people

 

Highlights in Berlin:

2011
16.04.  3. Long Night of the Opera and Theatre
29.04.-01.05  Gallery Weekend
10.06.-13.06.  Carnival of Cultures
18.06.-19.06.  19th Lesbian and Gay City Festival
21.06.  Fête de la Musique
24.06.-26.06.  Bergmannstraßenfest Kreuzberg jazzt
26.06.-17.07.  FIFA Women's World Cup 2011
30.06.-05.07.  Classic Open Air
05.08.-21.08.  Young Euro Classic
20.08. Potsdam's Palaces by Night
25.08.-20.11. Special exhibiton "Faces of the Renaissance" in the Bode-Museum
27.08. Long Night of Museums
September Berlin Ring Cycle
01.09.-19.09. Berlin Music Festival
07.09.-18.09. 11. International Literature Festival Berlin
02.09-07.09. IFA 2011
24.09.-25.09. 37. BMW-Berlin Marathon
29.09.-02.10. art forum Berlin - die International Art Show
12.10.-23.10. Festival of Lights
03.11.-06.11. JazzFestival Berlin 11
31.12. New Year's Eve Party at the Brandenburg Gate
2012
28.01.  Long Night of Museums
16.06.-17.06.  20th Lesbian and Gay City Festival
25.05.-28.05.  Carnival of Cultures
July  Classic Open Air
18.08.  Potsdam's Palaces by Night
20.08.-26.08.  „Historiale“ History Festival
25.08.  Long Night of Museums
Beginning of September
 IFA 2012
01.09.-19.09.  Berlin Music Festival
03.-06.10.  art forum Berlin - die International Art Show
13.10.-24.10.  Festival of Lights
31.12.  New Year's Eve Party at the Brandenburg Gate

 

Travel ideas and excursions: 

History: Story of Berlin exhibition (incl. bunker), Berlin Wall Museum at Check Point Charlie, former State Security prison in Hohenschönhausen, Berlin Wall Documentation Centre (Bernauer Straße), Berlin Museum of the GDR, Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum, Wannsee Conference Memorial, bicycle tours along the Berlin Wall Cycle Path, Cecilienhof Castle

Boat trips: Tours around the city centre, “Berlin Bridges” tour along the Spree and the Landwehr Canal, trips from Wannsee across the idyllic Havel lakes

Music: Deutsche Oper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Komische Oper, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Concert Hall, Berlin Residenz Orchestra, Musical Instruments Collection, Musical Archive Collection

Art: Brücke Museum, Kulturforum (incl. the New National Gallery and the Picture Gallery), Old National Gallery, Bode Museum, Pergamon Museum, Old Museum

Christmas: more than 60 Christmas Markets e. g. on the Alexanderplatz or Potsdamer Platz squares, in front of Charlottenburg Palace and at other locations

Castles, parks and gardens: Charlottenburg Palace and Park, Grunewald Hunting Lodge, Glienicke Castle and Gardens, Rheinsberg Palace, the New Palace (Potsdam)

Sacred buildings: Berlin Cathedral, Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

Jewish Berlin: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Oranienburger Straße district, New Synagogue, Jewish Museum

Railway culture: Berlin Park Railway, Schöneweide Railway Depot, Heidekraut Railway

Architecture: Hackesche Höfe district, Reichstag cupola (by Sir Norman Forster), Bauhaus Museum, Potsdamer Platz (Sony Center), German Historical Museum, New Synagogue, main station, sights of Schinkel as Neue Wache, Old Museum, Concert Hall and Memorial of Schinkel at Schinkel Square, Friedrichswerdersche Kirche

Excursions from Berlin: Potsdam incl. Sanssouci Castle and Park and Cecilienhof Castle; The Spreewald forest, incl. a river cruise by punt from Lübbenau; In the footsteps of Schinkel, Fontane and Tucholsky through the Ruppin region


Arriving:

Anreise per Flugzeug Berlin-Tegel International Airport, approx. 7 miles north-west of the city centre
Berlin Schönefeld International Airport, approx. 15 miles south of the city centre
Anreise per Bus/Pkw via the A24 (Hamburg-Rostock), A11 (Prenzlau-Szczecin), A2 (Magdeburg-Hanover), A9 (Leipzig-Nuremberg-Munich) and A13 (to Dresden) motorways
Anreise per Bahn long-distance connections to all major German and European cities, arrival into Berlin main station (city centre)



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