Berlin, Germany
local attractions
Berlin
The Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor)
Museum Island allow 1-2hrs plus museum visiting time - you could probably do 3 museums a day, and the Museum Pass allows free entry for 3 days.
Old Museum (Altes Museum) - Crown Jewels and other royal treasures
New Museum (Neues Museum) - Nefertiti
National Gallery
Bode Museum of antiquities - in particular, renaissance religious art works
the Pergamon with its spectacular reconstructed historic buildings from the Middle East
Old National Gallery (Alte Nationalgalerie) with its fine collections of 19th-century paintings
Berlin Wall Memorial and Checkpoint Charlie - allow 15-30min
Berlin skyline from rooftop
1)
Berliner Dom, James Simon Park
2)
Oberbaumbrücke, Universal Studios - Berlin's most beautiful bridge (sth-east)
3)
17thC Charlottenburg Palace and Park - Berlin's oldest and largest Prussian estate
Unter den Linden - lime tree avenue from museum island to Brandenburg Gate, and see the Humboldt University, the State Opera, the State Library, the German Museum of History and embassies, allow 30-60min
The Gendarmenmarkt - one of Berlin's largest squares, is dominated by three large historic buildings - the Konzerthaus, the French Cathedral (Französischer Dom), and the Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom), allow 45min
Alexanderplatz is one of the busiest squares in all of Berlin - Socialist architecture, buskers, and nearby 14th century Marienkirche (St. Mary’s Church) and Rotes Rathaus and Neptune Fountain allow 2hrs BUT area is known for pickpockets and bag grabbing thefts
The Rebuilt Reichstag
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church allow 30min
The Nikolai Quarter - the heart of the old city
Knoblauch House, built in 1760 and representative of the former homes of the city's wealthy Jewish merchants and tradesmen
Ephraim Palace, built in the 1760s and housing exhibits relating to Berlin's rich artistic and cultural history (be sure to visit its exquisite grand staircase)
Grunewald Forest
Grosser Tiergarten and the Berlin Victory Column in its centre
600 acres forest gardens - allow 1-2 hours at this location for photos, just walking from one side to the next takes around 45 minutes, in addition for the Victory Column, 15-20 minutes if you’re not going to climb the tower if your going to climb the tower 1-1 ½ hours.
East Side Gallery - remnant of Berlin wall covered in graffiti
Hamburger Bahnhof - contemporary art
Jewish Museum
Teufelsberg eerie dilapidated buildings and street art and crazy acoustics inside the radomes; man made hill, the highest hill in Berlin - 12km west of Berlin - €15 (for the once-daily ‘history’ tour by squatters)
4), and nearby Olympiastadion
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day trips from Berlin
Potsdam & Schloss Sanssouci, Dutch Quarter, and Babelsberg castle and park
Communist memorial at Treptower Park 5km south-east
Neue Heimat 14km south; part street food, part cocktail bar, part biergarten in a former railway depot, with artists performing live music and a pop-up market every Wednesday
Dresden & The Saxon Switzerland National Park
Hamburg
The Baltic Sea
historic small town of Brandenburg an der Havel
Frankfurt an der Oder on the Polish border 75min by train
Spree Forest, Lübbenau
Bayrischer Wald forest
grit of the Ruhr cities
the wild Nothern sea islands
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin
Dilapidated Teufelsberg and radomes
Olympiastadion Nazi architecture
Baltic coast line
south of Berlin
Dresden region
Bastei bridge
Dresden
Görlitz - Saxony on the east border with Poland
central Germany
Gosler, 3hrs, 300km west of Berlin