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Storyline
of Berlin - all the major sights! |
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Berlin has layers of dynamic history and there is no better place to experience it than the city |
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center Mitte, literally ‘middle.’ Once largely hidden during the Cold War behind the Berlin Wall, |
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Mitte provides the clearest window into the city’s medieval origins, its Prussian and Nazi past, |
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its legacy as a divided city, and the constant changes of the new Berlin. |
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This tour includes the new government quarter, new culture and art, new cutting edge architecture, |
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as well as Berlin’s must-see highlights from the Reichstag to the Brandenburg Gate to newly |
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completed Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. |
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Recommended Duration: 3-4 hours |
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Selected Highlights: |
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• Lustgarten, (Pleasure Garden) where you see the elegant Berlin Cathedral, the crumbling hull of the socialist Palace of |
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the Republic, the Old Museum, a masterpiece of Berlin’s most famous architect, Karl Schinkel, and the foundation stones |
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of the former Berlin City Palace. Why is only a certain balcony of the former palace remaining? |
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• Forum Fredericanum, the address of Berlin’s high culture, designed and conceived by one of the most famous Berliners of all |
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time, the Prussian king, Frederick the Great. See the plush State Opera House, St. Hedwigs Cathedral, and the world class |
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Humboldt University, home to 29 former Nobel Prize winners. See also the newly completed underground memorial for the |
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Nazi event that occurred on this square, the 1933 Book Burning. |
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• Berlin Wall, the famous barrier that symbolized the Cold War. You travel to one of the last remaining original sections of the wall |
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to learn about the painful stories of division, the daring escape attempts and the historical significance of Berlin’s most recognized |
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historical structure. |
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• Checkpoint Charlie, the famous crossing point from the American sector into East Berlin and the Communist World. How did the |
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opera tastes of an American diplomat once spark a confrontation between the Superpowers that raised the possibility of a World |
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War III. |
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• Karl Marx Forum, the grandiose East German tribute to the Communist forefathers, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Gain a |
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glimpse into the former East German ideology at this massive square overlooking the stunning TV tower built by the |
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East German government, still today Europe’s largest. |
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• Topography of Terror, the area that housed the SS and Gestapo headquarters. One finds a powerful exhibition on Nazi |
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crimes in the dug out prison cells once used for the detainment of high-profile enemies of the Nazi state. Why did the West |
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German government knock the buildings down following World War II? |
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• Führerbunker, the underground complex where Hitler spent his final weeks, rejecting the possibility of defeat even with the |
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Red Army at his doorstep. Hear the fascinating story of his demise and ultimate suicide. |
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• Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, completed in April 2006, perhaps the most impressive sight and statement of the |
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new Berlin. A three-football-field size memorial to the destruction of European Jewry in the city center, designed by the Jewish |
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American architect, Peter Eisenmann. Hear about surprising coincidences during the building phases and the reactions of |
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Berliners today. |
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• Brandenburger Tor, the enduring symbol of Berlin. The neoclassical gate to the city that was the pride of the Prussian state |
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and every other regime that followed. Here crowds danced on the Berlin Wall in November of 1989 while it was torn down |
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• The Reichstag, the home of the German Parliament and the crowing architectural gem of the Government Quarter, this structure |
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symbolizes everything Berlin was – from the birth of the German Nation in 1871 to the democratic Nazi take over of power in |
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1933 – to what it has become today. |
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…and much more! |
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