Unter den Linden, the old centre of Berlin
A journey of discovery through the modern government district and the historical centre of Berlin
Run time | 1:57 h |
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Number of stations | 12 |
Available languages | engl./ger. |
Price | 9,00 € |
incl. printable map | |
The Berlin Central Station
The Central Station of Berlin is a jack-of-all-trades - it wants it all, it can do it all. It is a space ship in a no-man's-land, a shopping center; it is three stations in one. It is a cathedral of movement, where 300.000 people mingle each day and of whom...
The Office of the Federal Chancellor
To govern in Germany has mostly been within the protective facades of established historic buildings, either in the „Palace Schaumburg“ in Bonn after the inception of the „Bundesrepublik“, or in Schoenhausen Castle inside the GDR. Even the new building...
The Reichstag
In the night from October 2 to Oct 3 1990, the mood here was comparable only to New Years Eve. Thousands stood huddled in front of the Reichstag building. Laughter, joy and champagne kept everyone warm...
The Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate is the heart of Berlin. The division of Berlin by the wall was most evident right here. This is where the presidents and heads of governments came from East and West, to see, to be seen and to speak. And it was here...
The Pariser Platz
The joy about the fallen wall in 1990 was still palpable. Champagne corks had just landed, and full of zest for action, the people of Berlin asked themselves: What now? What shall become of border crossings, death strip and empty plots...
Unter den Linden
„Unter den Linden“, this is the Berliner promenade between the „Pariser Platz“ and the „Schlossbrücke“. Here stand the magnificent buildings of Prussian times, sophisticated hotels and embassies. There are cafes to find coziness, luxury stores...
The Gendarmenmarkt
At the „Gendarmenmarkt“, you enter a place of many names, view two cathedrals, that really are not cathedrals and see a theater and concert house across from here, that have already been rebuilt four times...
The Forum Fridericianum
The Forum Fridericianum in five minutes? What an impossible task! But for you I will try, because you are standing on one of the most beautiful and profound places of Berlin...
The New Guard
The New Guard soon celebrates its two hundredth anniversary. For the first hundred years, it was a real guardhouse, with soldiers, parades and ceremonial changing of the guards. After the bloody wars of the 20th century, the New Guard...
The Museum Island
The "Island of Museums" is so overloaded with museums and world cultural heritage, that it would long be at the bottom of the Spree River, if it were not resting on thousands of old oak poles...
The Friedrichstraße Station
There is always a frantic coming and going at the train station Friedrichstraße, because it is here where the important traffic arteries of the city cross. The metropolitan railway runs above ground in an east-west direction and underground...
The Alsen- and Luisenblock
With more than eleven tons of steel, the architect Stephan Braunfels prepared in 1997 for the jump across the Spree. Six years later, he happily landed on the other side...