Minivan Driver and Guide (DIN15565) Tailor Made Berlin Highlights

The starting point for the tour is Germany's tallest structure, its iconic TV Tower, located in the vibrant square of Alexanderplatz. From here, we pass the Red Town Hall, Marien Church, Neptunes Brunn, and arrive at the Museum Island.One of the most important museum complexes in the world. The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Museum Island. We see Berlin's beautiful historic boulevard of Unter den Linden. You can capture the Berlin Cathedral, the unfinished reconstruction of the City Palace, the Old Museum, the Old National Gallery, the Pergamon Museum, and the Bode Museum.Just after the island, You see the Forum Fridericianum, which consists of the State Opera, the Law Faculty of Humboldt University, Humboldt University, the State Library, and the first Catholic Church in Berlin St. Hedwig's Cathedral. You are now in the middle of the forum on Bebelplatz – famous as the 'Nazi Book(25.000) Burning Square, where you find a memorial in remembrance of the burning of the books in 1933.Shortly after, we arrive at the spectacular Gendarmenmarkt, where you find the former Royal Concert Hall flanked by the German Dom on its south side and the French Dôm on its north side. The square is one of the most beautiful in Europe today!The next stop of our tour is Checkpoint Charly: one of the most famous border crossings of the Berlin Wall, which almost ended up as the starting point of a third world war.Along the former border strip, you will see original parts of the Berlin Wall and the site of the "Topography of Terror," one of the most frequently visited documentation centres on the period of National Socialism, the former site of the Headquarters of the SS and Gestapo. Right next to it, you find Martin-Gropius-Bau, where exhibitions of the well-known Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and the international exhibition David Bowie have taken place amongst others. In its front, the Prussian Parlement.The square of Potsdamer Place has been Europe's largest construction site ever since. It appears as an ensemble of skyscrapers and futuristic buildings, including the Sony Center.Following the border strip, we reach the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, which opened in 2005, commemorating the murder of more than 6 million Jews during National Socialism.Afterwards, the tour will take you to one of the most famous landmarks in Berlin: the Brandenburg Gate.Then we leave the former Eastern part of Berlin and enter the Memorial to the Murdered Sinti and Roma, the Government District consisting of the Reichstag/Bundestag and Chancellery,Riding along the Tiergarten, Berlin's largest inner-city park, and the Spree, Berlin's longest river, we are about to reach Bellevue Palace, the Federal President's official residence.You can already see our final destination: the Victory Column rising golden in the middle of the Tiergarten!