Sightseeing

On his tour on Jewish life in Berlin guide Jörg Benario treats the touchy subject of the Holocaust rather with wit and a sense of Jewish humour than with uptight embarrassment.

Hackesche Höfe, New Synagogue and Clärchens Ballhaus - Scheunenviertel in Mitte has lots of sights to discover which can be explored on foot with your parents.

Beneath the field of stelae of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe lies the "Place of Information", an underground exhibition covering approximately 800 square meters. It tells the stories of people, families, and places of persecution, and admission is free.

Berlin Horizontal takes guests through Berlin-Mitte in the BettBike, a rickshaw with a real bed for two people. Tours usually start at Alexanderplatz, last from one hour, and pass landmarks such as the Berlin Cathedral and Museum Island.

City walks for men and dogs alike - this idea of tourism-professional Melanie Kies kicked her into second gear.

You need strong nerves to visit the Berlin Dungeon! In this historic chamber of horrors, visitors experience a journey through 800 years of eerie Berlin stories. New show for 18+

Do you have any idea how the ghost station Oranienburg, the Gasometer or Volkspark Humboldthain look like underground?

Where in Berlin can you follow David Bowie's footsteps? In which studio did U2 record an album? What is the favourite club of Peter Fox? "Fritz Musictours Berlin" gives you the answers to all these questions and some more.

The Nikolaiviertel in Berlin-Mitte is Berlin's oldest city center: cobblestones, narrow alleys, and pastel-colored houses make a stroll here a journey into medieval Berlin. Anyone looking to spend a historically rich yet relaxed day with parents or relatives will find exactly what they're looking for here.

Drive around the city in one of this iconic vehicles.

During the Skipper's Brunch on the MS Sanssouci, guests can expect an extensive boat tour past the capital's most important sights, combined with a rich buffet. The three-hour trip from Treptower Hafen offers culinary classics as well as changing hot and cold dishes for the whole family.

Where was the Berlin Wall? This is the question city guides get asked most frequently.

The city tour City Circle PURPLE Tour in a yellow doubledecker bus traces the former Berlin Wall and takes you to the trendy Berlin of today.

Trabi XXL in Berlin offers a special city tour in a unique stretched limousine, specifically an elongated Trabant, the iconic East German car.

The Berlin edition of Madame Tussaud's wax museum located Unter den Linden is the right place for those who always wanted to take a picture with Elyas M’Barek, Angelina Joli or Matthias Schweighöfer.

The Jugendgästehaus St.-Michaels-Heim (Youth hostel St. Michaels) on the edge of Wilmersdorf is out in the green and centrally located at the same sime, since both Kurfürstendamm and Grunewald are not far away.

Just a few steps from Klosterstraße subway station stand the walls of a 13th-century monastery church. The ruin of the Franciscan Monastery Church is one of Berlin's oldest buildings and today serves as an open-air exhibition space for contemporary art, with free admission.

Not only tourists will get to know a different kind of Berlin when going on a bike tour by Berlin on Bike. Berlin locals tell their stories on the routes "Crude East Facts", "Oases in the Metropolis" or "All along the Wall" and share their secret favourite spots in town.

The greenest city tour in town is a sightseeing tour with the velotaxi. The chauffeurs pedal their guests through the city in modern and comfortable bike rickshaws. The tour duration varies between 1 - 3 hours.

Berlin Kutschfahrten as operator offers all kinds of different tours in horse-drawn carriages, anything from a historical tour through Berlin over a nocturnal tour to an adventure tour.

For many tourists a classic "hop-on / hop off" tour is the ideal basis for a flexible discovery tour of the Berlin sights.

Pergamon Museum was the first museum of archeology world-wide!

Did you know that Berlin has more bridges than Venice? If you want to get to know some of them up close along with many of the city's sights, a bridge tour by boat on the Spree and the Landwehr Channel is your choice of tour.

In front of the Brandenburg Gate there are large crowds all the time. The "room of silence” is the perfect location to relax and take a short break.

A Berliner Schnauze tour with the Berlin Bears will definitely banish boredom!