Berlin Express Private Guided History Tour

Short on time in Berlin? This express private guided tour is the most comprehensive 2 hr Berlin tour available, encompassing all of the city's unique history, with our guides remaining flexible for you on tour days.
Whether you are traveling with your family, a group of friends, or on business, this private guided tour is the ideal way to see Berlin and hear the stories of the cities amazing history.

Learn about Frederick the Great and the Hohenzollern Dynasty, the formation of the German nation under Bismarck in 1871, Berlin and the effects of World War 1. Hear about the chaos of the Weimar Republic, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, World War II, the Berlin Wall, and Berlin’s current role as the capital of a reunified Germany.

Meeting Point

Brandenburg Gate

Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany

You will be meet by your guide at your accommodation or chosen meeting point.

What's included:

• Experienced Guide

What to expect:

Duration: 2 hours

Pariser Platz

Berlin, 10117

Berlins most prestigious square. Located at the end of Unter den Linden, and the location of the Brandenburg Gate.

15 minutes

Reichstag Building

Platz der Republik 1, Berlin, 10557

The German House of Parliament, and infamous due to the fire that enabled Hitler to take total control. It was fought over during the Battle of Berlin between the Germans and the Soviets, and now topped with a glass copula designed by British architect Sir Norman Foster.

10 minutes

Brandenburg Gate

Pariser Platz, Berlin, 10117

The royal entrance to Berlin of the Hohenzollern family and one of 18 former city gates . It survived Napoleon, WWII and then was trapped in the middle of the Berlin Wall for almost 30 years. A former symbol of division, today "The Gate" stands as a symbol of a reunified Germany.

15 minutes

The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, Berlin, 10117

This massive site covered with stone stelae is the central Germany memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

20 minutes

Fuhrerbunker

Gertrud-Kolmar-Str. 14, Berlin, 10117

Currently a parking lot with a simple sign The location where Hitler spent his final days, married, and then committed suicide during the final days of WWII in Europe.

15 minutes

Potsdamer Platz

Potsdamer Platz, Tiegarten, Berlin, 10785

One of the busiest traffic intersections in Europe in the 1920s, but destroyed almost completely during WWII, and rebuilt as Berlin’s most modern precinct during the 1990s and early 2000s.

10 minutes

Memorial of the Berlin Wall

Bernauer Strasse 111, Berlin, 13355

One of three remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall, situated on the site of the former SS and Gestapo headquarters of Nazi Germany were situated and directly across from the monolith former Nazi Luftwaffe headquarters.

15 minutes

Checkpoint Charlie

Friedrichstr. 43-45, Zimmerstraße, Berlin, 10117

The famous frontline and Allied Checkpoint manned by the Americans and Soviets during the Cold War.

10 minutes

Gendarmenmarkt

Berlin, 10117

The most beautiful square in Berlin. Home to the French and German Cathedrals, the Concert House, beautiful gardens and statues.

15 minutes

Bebelplatz

Berlin, 10117

First known as Frederick’s Forum, after Prussia's Frederick the Great, it is now home to the Humboldt University, the Opera House, the Royal Library, and Hedwig’s Cathedral. It was also infamously the site of the Nazi book burnings on May 10, 1933.

15 minutes

Unter Den Linden

, , Berlin, 10117

The royal boulevard of Berlin, connecting the Brandenburg Gate to Museums Island and the City Palace.

10 minutes

Museum Island

Berlin

A UNESCO World Heritage Site with six world-class museums, as well as the Berlin Cathedral and the newly rebuilt Hohenzollern city palace.

15 minutes