Berlin Wall tours and activities
For 12 years Berlin was the capital of the Third Reich. Hitler’s reign began in 1933, spread across Europe and collapsed with the Battle of ...
Duration
4 hours
Available in:
English
Get the best of Berlin while saving time and money. The Berlin WelcomeCard provides you with: - Free travel on the public transport network ...
Validity Flexible
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English
See Berlin with a hop-on hop-off tour, listening to an interesting audio guide available in 20 languages. Use the buses as a convenient mean...
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English
Ostpolitik, DDR, Stasi, Ostalgie, Trabi and the Wall. Do these names and acronyms take you back to famous and dramatic images from the recen...
Duration
3 hours
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English
Unmistakable, the Berlin Wall was the defining symbol of the Cold War and marked the line in the sand between democracy and dictatorship, ca...
Duration
2 hours
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English
Follow the visible and hidden remains of the Berlin Wall by bike, from the Bornholmer Straße up to the Government District, and learn more a...
Duration
3 hours, 30 minutes
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English
You must not miss this award-winning museum for a fun-filled visit to understand life under the dictatorship of the former DDR government.Wh...
Validity Flexible
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English
Treat your friends, family, or even yourself to a private Segway tour of Berlin! Enjoy having your very own guide show you the best sights d...
Duration
3 hours
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English
With magnificent views from an open-top bus, this is the perfect introduction to a city that went through a tumultuous history. This careful...
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English
Discover Berlin during the era of Kennedy, Khrushchev, Gorbachev and Reagan, when there were armed border guards watching over the Berlin Wa...
Duration
4 hours
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English
After meeting your guide at Alexanderplatz you will head away from the Mitte district and the pedestrian Cold War sights to take in more of ...
Duration
4 hours
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English
Discover Berlin with a combination ticket. Get access to hop-on hop-off buses and boats for 24 or 48 hours to see all of the German capital’...
Validity Flexible
Available in:
English
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The inside story
The Berlin Wall was not only a symbol of the division of a city and a country, but the entire world. Europe, still scarred by the appalling tragedy of the Second World War, became theatre of a new, terrible conflict which, though it wasn’t fought with weapons, caused deep lacerations. The Cold War between the two super powers of the time, the United States and the Soviet Union, divided the world into two blocs: the pro-American West and the pro-Soviet East. Germany was in the middle and paid the highest price.
The construction of the Berlin Wall, which started on August 13, 1961, was decreed by the government of East Germany to stop the citizens of the GDR leaving towards the more prosperous West. As the west didn’t want to put themselves in a weak position, separation became a fact.
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