Berlin Trends - Sightseeing by Segway

City Tour - Daily 9:30am - 4 Hours - 69 Euro
Afternoon Mini Tour - Daily 2pm - 90 Minutes - 45 Euro

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Neue Wache - New Guard House

The new guard house was built in 1816 to 1818 after the designs of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and since 1993, the Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for victims of war and tyranny.

Mitte - Unter den Linden

Berlin Cathedral

The Cathedral of Berlin is the largest church in the city, and it serves as a vital center for the Protestant church of Germany. A must see for every Berlin Visitor!

Admission fee: 5 Euro

Opening Hours:
Monday - Saturday 9am - 8pm
Sundays 12am – 8pm

Mitte - Am Lustgarten

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TV Tower

The TV Tower is the fourth tallest freestanding structure in Europe.

Height: 368 metres (1,207 ft)

Tickets: 11 Euro

Opening Hours:
March - October 9 am - to midnight
November - February 10 am - to midnight

Mitte - Alexanderplatz

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Eine Anmerkung meinerseits: Den Eintrittspreis von 11 Euro halte ich für viel zu teuer und völlig überzogen. Zum Vergleich auf dem Funkturm bezahlt man 4 Euro das ist ok und normal für Berlin. Und man hat auch eine schöne Aussicht auf Berlin.

Bilder vom Funkturm here

A note from me: The admission price of 11 € is too expensive and totally exaggerated.
For comparison, on the radio tower you pay the 4 euro thats ok and normal for Berlin.
And it also has a beautiful view of Berlin.

Photos from the Radio Tower here

Zeughaus - German Historical Museum

The Zeughaus (arsenal) is the oldest building on Unter den Linden in Berlin, dating from the baroque era. It was built as an arsenal. Today it houses the German Historical Museum.

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Mitte - Unter den Linden 2

Sightseeing in Berlin

During the tour you will see:

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Memorial Church · Europa Center · KaDeWe · Kulturforum · Philharmonie · New Nationalgalerie · Jewish Museum · Checkpoint Charlie · remains of the wall · Prussian Parliament · Martin Gropius Building · Potsdamer Platz · Bundesrat · Friedrichstraße · Gendarmenmarkt · German + French Cathedral · Konzerthaus · Nikolai-Quarter · Berlin Town Hall · TV-Tower · Alexanderplatz · Museums Island · Berliner Dom/Cathedral · Lustgarten · Old Nationalgalerie · Zeughaus/Deutsches Historisches Museum · Neue Wache · Humboldt Universität · Crown Princes Palace · Princesses Palace · St. Hedwigs Kathedrale · Unter den Linden · Lindencorso · Brandenburger Tor · Reichstag · Lehrter Bahnhof/Hauptbahnhof · Bundeskanzleramt · Palace Bellevue · Victory Column · Technische Universität · Palace Charlottenburg · Kurfürstendamm

Experience Berlin with our City-Circle-Tour hop-on/hop-off, guided with ear-phones in 13 languages. You can hop-on and hop-off the buses at 16 different landmarks all around the city at your leisure - 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm. Enjoy your most individual tour e.g. for a visit of the Pergamon museum, boat-ride, visit of Potsdamer Platz and shopping at Kurfürstendamm or Friedrichstraße. If you like you can also stay on the bus for the full two-hour tour.

The duration is a minimum of 2 hours. For a whole day you can get-on and off the buses at anytime at one of the 16 bus stops (boarding depending on free seat capacity). A bus leaves every 15 minutes from each hop-on/hop-off point.

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Theme Day: Your favourite part of town

Today I want show you my favorite part in Berlin. Come with me on a tour through the most beautiful garden in Berlin 'Charlottenburg Garden'.

Charlottenburg Palace

The Charlottenburg Palace was built between 1695-1699, designed by the architect J. Arnold Nering. It was initially intended as a small garden and summer palace for the wife of Elector Friedrich III., Sophie Charlotte.

After the coronation of the elector in 1701 the first king in Prussia, the castle was built by the architect von Goethe Eosander to a more representative seat modeled on Versailles. The main central building with its eleven axes window has now been supplemented by wing and there was a cour d'honneur, a Court of Honor. Also in this phase was added in the most characteristic component of the Castle, a little too overblown dome.

The death of Sophie Charlotte in 1705, received the castle and the nearby village its name. With the death of King Frederick I in 1713, the construction work stopped and continued only under Frederick the Great 1740 Designed by Knobelsdorff was built between 1740-1746 of the new wing to the east, which should make the equivalent of the old west with the orangery wing.

As a final component 1791, the Palace Theatre added, designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans. This extension of the orangery would mark the final of the nearly 100-year construction period.

After the Charlottenburg Palace was damaged during the Second World War, the restoration required more than two decades to rebuild.

New Pavilion

Karl Friedrich Schinkel constructed this Italianesque building in 1825. An outstanding collection from Schinkel’s era with paintings by Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen can be viewed here today. The new Pavillion is closed due to restoration. Reopening 2011

Belvedere

The architect Carl Gotthard Langhans constructed this charming building in 1788 to provide a lookout point in Charlottenburg Park. An important collection from the Berlin Porcelain Manufactory (KPM) is shown here today.



Orangerie

In the time it established itself in the Charlottenburg Palace as a summer residence, was built between 1709-12 in the west of the old castle subsequent Orangerie. Which served from Goethe Eosander Orangerie originally designed as wintering rare plants. During the summer months, when more than 500 orange, lemon and sour orange trees adorned the Baroque garden, the Orangerie was regularly magnificent scene of courtly festivities.

Destroyed in the War, the wing after the baroque style and rebuilt in a new light shines today. The well-lit banquet hall provides a lovely setting for cultural events, concerts and banquets. Not only in the past, the Orangerie of Charlottenburg Palace illustrious personalities can accommodate: So here were in the past years, about Queen Elizabeth II or the Chinese Premier visited.

Mausoleum

The mausoleum was built as a tomb for King Frederick William III and Queen Luise.
Later, Emperor William I and Empress Augusta were also laid to rest here.

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East Side Gallery 3

Friedrichshain - Mühlenstraße (between Oberbaumbrücke and Ostbahnhof)

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Boulevard of the Stars

Berlin's mayor Klaus Wowereit opened on 10 September 2010 'Boulevard of the Stars'.
The 320 meter long boulevard is on the median strip on Potsdamer Strasse.

A rainy Sunday afternoon at the Sony Center

Inside Sony Center

A steel-and glass-dominated ensemble of seven individual buildings. Here are offices, apartments, cinemas and restaurants, a "movie house" and Sony's European headquarters. The center of the triangular area formed the oval "Forum", which sees itself as part of the urban public space and therefore not separated from the surrounding streets. A spectacular feat of engineering is the roof: The fanned out tent roof made of fabric with tie rods attached to the steel ring, which rests on the surrounding buildings.

The Roof



Sony Center - Potsdamer Straße 4

Radio Tower Berlin

The radio tower has a height of 150 m, which is 55m in height in the restaurant and the observation deck 125m. This provides for good weather, a magnificent view over the city.

Ticket Price 4 Euro

Charlottenburg - Hammarskjöldplatz 1

Checkpoint Charlie

Festival of Lights - Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt

Once a Theater, now a concert hall is one of the masterpieces of classical architecture in Germany and has a long history. As early as 1776 at the instigation of Frederick the Great opened at this point a little comedy house, the Elder to the plans of the Prussian Building Director John Bouman was built. The name change to Royal National Theatre in 1787 highlighted the rise of one of the leading theaters in the country.

At the beginning of the 19th Century, Carl Gotthard Langhans was charged with the construction of the theater, which opened on New Year's Day 1802 ceremony. But in 1817 the theater was destroyed by fire, who made a new building necessary. King Friedrich Wilhelm III. gave the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel's bid for the theater, but he was tied with his plans to several provisions of the King. After three years of construction, the theater was inaugurated in 1821 in the presence of the king.

After the theater had been by the fighting at the end of World War II severely affected, it was built 1979-1984 as a concert hall again.

Source: Berlin.de

Charlottenburg Palace

On 24 January 2012 marks the 300th birthday of Frederick the Great.

To mark this anniversary, the Foundation for Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg, the person of the king and the New Palace in Sanssouci Park in the heart of its activities: provide a great presentation and a variety of events a special look behind the mask of the king and the facade of his greatest castle.

Friedrich (1712-1786) influenced by his time as extraordinary as unexpected, a regent could hardly fed ideas and actions. He won as a politician and general, but also as a writer and philosopher, a great influence - on his contemporaries as to posterity, positive or negative. For Friedrich personally sat down for his goals, pursued them engaged, even ruthless - when it mattered, with life and limb. Friedrich, as history shows, was always willing to take risks for his cause.

Brandenburg Gate

History Place

John-F.-Kennedy-Platz (John F. Kennedy Square) in Berlin-Schöneberg. It was the square in which US President John F. Kennedy gave his famous speech to the Berliners, in which he stated: "Ich bin ein Berliner".

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Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

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Orangery of Charlottenburg Palace

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The New Pavillion

Since 1970, the interior, which has had to be reconstructed to a great extent, has housed a museum with masterpieces from Schinkel's era. Paintings from the Romantic Movement and the Biedermeier period - by Carl Blechen, Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Eduard Gaertner - as well as furniture, sculpture, porcelain and decorative cast ironwork made in Berlin are on display.

Belvedere

Inside is the most important public collection of Berlin porcelain and generally ranks among the most outstanding specialized collections within the capital.