Berlin Historical City Centre Guided Tour

This flagship tour covers all the main points of interest in the German capital, and is perfect for day-trippers, weekenders or long-stayers alike. Let one of our professional, local guides give you a crash course in Berlin’s history, and the inside track on one of the most exciting cities the planet.
Predominantly focusing on Berlin’s historical city centre, Mitte, thematically the tour covers Prussia, Imperial Germany, Nazism, and the Cold War – painting the bigger picture to help you understand how different periods of Berlin’s past fit together, and how they affect the city today.

In short, it’s all you need to know.

What's included:

• Professional, local guide

Not included:

• Food and drink
• Gratuities
• Entrance fees (none required for the tour)
• Public transportation costs

What to expect:

Duration: 6 hours

Brandenburg Gate

Pariser Platz, Berlin, 10117

Walk through the gateways of Berlin's most iconic monument and find out what makes the Gate the most important cultural monument in Germany.

15 minutes

The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, Berlin, 10117

Journey through the field of concrete stellae, bear witness the atrocities of National Socialism, and hear the stories of the everyday bravery of the persecuted.

15 minutes

Reichstag Building

Platz der Republik 1, Berlin, 10557

Stand in the shadow of the German parliament building, burned down after Hitler’s rise to power, now a bold symbol of modern German democracy.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Topography of Terror

Niederkirchnerstrasse 8, , Berlin, 10963

See the dark heart of Nazi Germany at the former headquarters of the SS and Gestapo. See the excavated torture cells, and come face-to-face with the Cold War's most brutal symbol: The Berlin Wall.

15 minutes

Checkpoint Charlie

Friedrichstr. 43-45, Zimmerstraße, Berlin, 10117

Cross the border from East to West at the frontline of the Cold War, where spies roamed and US and Soviet tanks faced off in 1961.

10 minutes

Fuhrerbunker

Gertrud-Kolmar-Str. 14, Berlin, 10117

Stand at the site of the bunker where history's most notorious criminal committed suicide at the end of WWII.

10 minutes

Museum Island

Berlin

Marvel at the stunning structures and imperial splendor of this UNESCO-listed World Heritage Site. See the Old Museum, the Berlin City Palace, the Berlin Cathedral and more.

10 minutes

Bebelplatz

Berlin, 10117

See the buildings that epitomized Frederick the Great's 18th-century Berlin, and visit the site of the Nazi Book Burning that took place on the 10th May 1933.

10 minutes

Unter Den Linden

, , Berlin, 10117

Stroll down a stretch of Berlin's 'royal mile' and most important historical boulevard.

5 minutes

Gendarmenmarkt

Berlin, 10117

Bathe in the architectural splendor of Berlin's most beautiful square. See the French and German Domes and the Concert House, and visit Berlin's most famous independent chocolatier: Rausch.

15 minutes

Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum

Oranienburger Str. 28 - 30, , Berlin, 10117

Delve into Berlin's former Jewish Quarter and to see the ornate golden domes of the New Synagogue – formerly the largest Jewish place of worship in Germany – and the Stolpersteine – personal tributes to victims of Nazism.

15 minutes

Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism

Simsonweg/Scheidemannstrasse, Between Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag Building, Berlin, 10117

Visit the central point of commemoration in Germany for the Roma and Sinti – those who were persecuted as 'gypsies' under Nazism.

10 minutes

Soviet Memorial Tiergarten

Strasse des 17. Juni, Berlin, 10623

Pay tribute to some 2,000 Soviet soldiers who died during the Battle of Berlin, and get up close and personal with the first two T34 tanks that entered Berlin at the end of the Second World War.

5 minutes