<i>Willkommen in Berlin!</i> Chock full of world-class museums, bustling night life, fashion, art, design and music, Berlin is Germany's undisputed culture capital. Make the most of your time here with a personal Berlin tour. Your local guide is eager to share the very best of their city with you, so you leave understanding more about this city's fascinating place in 20th century history.

See the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate, monuments to the city's turbulent past. Visit the Eastside Gallery - the longest remaining remnant of the Berlin Wall is also the world's biggest outdoor art canvas. Nearby is the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, once the infamous tower that symbolized Cold War tensions between the East and West.

Discover the many facets of the German capital at your own pace with a friendly and knowledgeable local companion, on your private Berlin tour.

Berlin

I navigate through the many layers of the Berlins past to uncover its fascinating secrets - all of which have left their mark creating the melting pot of diversity it is today. From the city's swampy origins to the rise of the Prussian army, through Hitler's megalomaniacal vision for a new world capital to the totalitarian communist regime that led to division and the construction of the Berlin wall.

We visit the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag, and the sites of Hitler's bunker and the Headquarters of the Gestapo and the SS. We cross Checkpoint Charlie and see the Berlin wall. Discover the contrasts of Berlin today; just a stone's throw away from the bustling Potsdamer Platz the dark past is remembered in the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Be enchanted by the beauty of Gendarmenmarkt and the impressive UNESCO World Heritage Site of Museum Island.

 Let me take you on a journey, through the city and through time, to discover how Berlin has evolved into one of the most dynamic cities in Europe!

Join me in this experience and discover all the must-do highlights of this wonderful city.

Berlin City Sightseeing - Half-Day Tour

World War II and Cold War in Berlin - Express tour

Starting at Checkpoint Charlie, this tour will take you along the former border between the East and the West. We'll pass the former Reich's Ministry of Aviation and also get to see the place where Hitler gave his first (non-public) speech in Prussia, back in 1927.

Furthermore, we stop at the Topography of Terror with its excavations of former Gestapo prisons, where one of the last remaining sections of The Wall is still visible. Next comes Potsdamer Platz, which looks nothing like it did 100 years ago, yet is just as busy, and finally, we will reach the location of the Führer Bunker and eventually, the Holocaust Memorial.

The tour ends at the Brandenburg Gate, today a symbol for Germany's darkest but also its most glorious hour. This tour is a "must" for any first-time visitor to Berlin! With me as an experienced tour guide and historian you'll get to learn every detail on the many sites, monuments, places, and buildings we come across!

Be prepared for a history lesson you're bound to never forget!

Peter Eisenmann's hauntingly beautiful Holocaust Memorial

The Holocaust Memorial with the Tiergarten in the back

Brandenburg Gate, during a royal visit by The Queen

Join me in this experience and travel in time through Berlin's tumultuous history of the past 100 years

Total Berlin - the Full-Day Highlights Walking Tour

The most comprehensive private walking tour of Berlin.
Visit Berlin's major landmarks and must-see locations in a full-day walking tour.
This tour It is highly recommended for first-time visitors, history lovers, and travelers who want to take it all in!

Including the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, and much more!

Kings, Nazis, and Communists - Half Day Tour in Berlin

There is probably no other city in the world, which allows visitors to see so many different "scars of history" like Berlin does. To understand the German capital as good as possible, it is essential to understand the historical developments after the Thirty Years War, when Prussia was founded and later became a great European power. We will see important places and buildings of Prussia and Imperial Germany. Moreover, I will discuss the developments from the Great War until 1933, when Hitler took power. The National Socialists significantly influenced Berlin's structure and architecture, and we will see some important examples. Places, where Hitler's horrible plans to execute warfighting and the Holocaust, are also important parts of the tour. Eventually, you will get comprehensive background information about the Cold War period and the Communist dictatorship that was implemented by the Soviet Union after World War II. A perfect tour for travelers who are intested in history and political-military affairs.

Discover with me the Royalty in Prussia, Nazi history Germany, and the Cold War in this City Sightseeing experience

If this is your first visit to Berlin then I would highly recommend starting with the Highlights Tour. Within the four hours we will thoroughly explore the historical city centre and see all of the most important sites. Berlin's history goes back over 800 years; beginning as a small river-side village, it then became home to the Prussian Royals and capital of the German Empire, before battling through the First and Second World Wars, to be tragically divided into East and West during the GDR.

Whether your interests are in the Third Reich, the Cold War or simply are about life in Berlin today, we can adjust the tour to make sure you are happy. The pace of the tour is very relaxed and I will be at hand the whole day to be your paparazzi. This tour can be by foot or with private transportation (at an additional cost).

Looking forward to showing you why I fell in love with Berlin.

Explore the Best of Berlin - All of the Main Sights in One Day

Berlin City Highlights - Half-Day Tour

First time in Berlin? To get the most out of your visit, you must take this walk!
In a 4 hour tour you will get a glimpse of the city's most important sites and events.
Berlin is incredibly saturated with turbulent moments! With historical images, videos, and maps, I will reveal the stories of the most famous of them.

As an interdisciplinary artist, I use my knowledge of architecture, art, and politics to show you how they are all woven into the cityscape.
This tour will provide you with deeper insights of the city's multilayered history and reveal what lies beyond the facades and beneath its stones.
It's a guarantee that after the tour, you'll see the city from a completely different perspective.

MUST SEE - Berlin's most iconic sites and monuments

Half Day Berlin Walking Tour [private]

Ninety years after the Nazis came to power, the horrors of Hitler's Third Reich continue to have a lasting impact on the German capital's cultural and architectural fabric. This is not just a historical tour; it's an opportunity to engage with the past, grapple with difficult questions, and emerge with a renewed perspective on the importance of remembrance and collective responsibility.

I'm Georgia, your dedicated local expert, poised to unravel a complicated history with passion and precision. As a seasoned guide, I'll ensure you not only see sites of significance but also understand the context surrounding them. I pride myself on bringing a personal touch and I invite you to trust in my expertise for an enlightening exploration of Berlin's darkest chapter.

This itinerary is a suggestion and can be customized as you wish - just let me know.

A tour about commemoration &amp; culpability in the former Nazi capital

Third Reich Berlin - Half Day Private Walking Tour

Along Berlin's History Mile - Express Tour

A walking tour through the inner city of Berlin, to all the well known hotspots.

Starting at the cradle of middle-age Berlin on the River Spree, towards "Museum Island", Humbold University, BRANDENBURG GATE, the Reichstag Parliament area, followed by Eisenman's ''Holocaust Memorial'', to the new Potsdam Square.

Beyond we will see an original piece of the BERLIN WALL, the "Topography of Terror" (SS / GESTAPO Documentation Center) and ending at the legendary CHECKPOINT CHARLIE.

2,5h private walking tour to the hotspots of Berlin's history.

Berlin: A General History Experience - Half-Day Tour

Do the stories of Berlin - the city of Prussian order and progress, of the Republic of Weimar's disorder and unrest, of Nazi violence and destruction, of the physical and mental division established by the wall - fit into a single narrative?

Let's answer this question by walking and talking on the streets of Berlin.

And let's think and explore with our senses what made and still makes Berlin a city of change and conflict, of destruction and creation. Let's see and imagine the city's struggle for freedom (with the revolutionaries in 1848) and the imposition of authority (with the first unification of Germany in 1871)

Let's understand what led Berlin to be the center of racial, genocidal imperialism (from 1933); and then to be cut (in 1961) into two different worlds -West and East - separated by a "death strip".

Let's recall the fall of the wall and the rise of a new, creative, unified but never homogeneous Berlin.

Join me in this walk through the city's highlights and a learn about its contexts and hidden stories

The Berlin History Tour - Private Van Tour | 6 hours | Max Group Size: 6

If you're newly arriving in Berlin and looking to get to grips with the city and its unique history over the space of a steady six hour tour - this is what you're looking for.

To remove Berlin from the European story would leave many questions unanswerable; eras have begun and ended here; events served as catalysts to the great turning points in history. Germany's doomed involvement in World War One; the city's status as the nerve centre of Hitler's Third Reich; Berlin carved up and occupied on the frontline of the Cold War conflict; the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall; the reunification of Germany with Berlin as the country's capital.

To walk the streets of this city is to be confronted with history at every turn.

This Berlin Highlights Private Van Tour takes you through the milestones of Berlin past and present. Covering the major sights and stories behind them.

This tour can also easily be tailored to your own interest in the city to include certain historical themes/areas of the city!

Private Transportation Example (Mercedes Benz Viano)

Including the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, and much more

Being in Berlin for the first time, people are often so overwhelmed by its history and big sights that they miss the most interesting part of it - its backyards, places equally meaningful, but a bit less banal.

What about a real bunker that was bought by a private investor and became their residence and museum of contemporary art? Or checkpoint for trains between West and East Berlin - how many tears and stories it has seen.

I will take you off the beaten track to see how the city lives and rages, adding new meanings to its realities, how a playground appears on the former cemetery of the 19th century, fenced by a house wall with traces of bullets and shrapnel from the Second World War. We'll visit the most popular district of Hackescher markt courtyards, one of the best preserved areas of the city, where you will be able to imagine what pre-war Berlin looked like. We'll walk through former Jewish quarter and cemetery, see graffiti courtyards, the most famous first dance hall in the city and much more.

installation Borders in one of the courtyards

Backstreets, courtyards and stories off the beaten track

Hidden Berlin Walking Tour

Berlin's 20th Century - Half-Day Walking Tour (3h)

Berlin is the 20th Century City: what started right here changed the whole world. World War I and World War II were conceived in Berlin.

The Berlin Battle and Hitler's suicide ended the European battlefields. The Berlin Wall was the epitome of the world's division in East and West during the Cold War. The fall of the Berlin Wall brought new hope and dreams of a better world.

All these topics are to be found in a square mile in Berlin's city center, and I will show them to you! With 28 years of experience, I have a story to tell on every corner. My aim is to explain this messy German history as well as possible! Famous sites right in the city center: Potsdamer Platz, Brandenburg Gate, Government Area with Reichstag, and the Berlin Wall. Mostly 20th-century history.

Walking tour means, if needed, we use taxi or public transport.

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