Quick Details
- Duration: 4 hours
- Time: Hourly departures from 8AM to 3PM
- Tour type: cycling, private driver
- Pick up location: your central Berlin hotel
- Group size: max 14
- Inclusions: Private Expert Guide, Pick up/ Drop off at your Hotel, Entrance or Admission Fees, Bike/Helmet rental for the cycling option, Private Driver/Black Van for the driving option
Tour Highlights
- Learn how Berlin’s cityscape came to be, from its baroque and neoclassical buildings to today’s modernist styles
- Visit famous sites like the Humboldt Forum, the Neue Wache memorial, and Potsdamer Platz
- Hear the stories behind the construction — and destruction — of Berlin’s most famous buildings
- See for yourself the stark comparison between East and West Berlin neighborhoods
- Local expert guides with deep knowledge of Berlin’s history, art, and politics
- Choose from daily departures with multiple start times
Tour Overview
“Berlin is a city condemned forever to becoming and never to being.” – Karl Scheffler, author of “Berlin: The Fate of a City,” 1910.
On this Berlin architecture tour, you’ll join a private guide, who will show you the glorious clash that is Berlin’s skyline. In our city, ordinary everyday buildings stand side-by-side with the most impressive architectural experiments of historic and modern times. You’ll explore the best and the worst of what was left behind – the monstrous and glorious constructions of kings and emperors, as well as the relics left behind by tyrannical dictatorships.
Taking you along the magnificent boulevard of Unter den Linden, your personal guide — an expert in Berlin art, history, and architecture — will show you sites like the baroque facades of the Humboldt Forum, and the neoclassical Neue Wache memorial for the victims of war and dictatorship.
At the DZ Building, check out the deconstructivist work of Frank Gehry. And at the Kulturforum, check out innovative modernist architecture by the likes of Hans Scharoun and Mies van der Rohe.
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Other architectural sites worth seeing include Museums Insel (Museum Island), the British Embassy, Potsdamer Platz, the Jewish Museum, Karl-Marx Allee and Mediaspree.
At each stop, your private guide will provide context to help you to understand how, when and why the most famous buildings in Berlin were constructed (or destroyed!). Our city’s complex, varied architectural landscape is part of what gives Berlin its unique character.
You’ll leave the tour with an understanding of how Berlin’s turbulent history left its mark on her architecture, allowing you to appreciate it all with a fresh perspective.
About Our Guides
Our Berlin tour guides are more than just guides — they are true characters of the city, with deep knowledge of Berlin’s history, art and politics. Some of them were eyewitnesses to the Cold War, and all of them enthusiastic ambassadors of their city. As our guest, we want you to feel welcomed and catered to. Our guides will always take the time to answer your questions and can adapt the itinerary to suit your personal wishes and interests.
Tour Flexibility
Our guides are experts in their subjects, but this is your private tour. From Berlin’s neo-classical monuments to her brutalist architecture and modern experiments, the city has no shortage of fascinating places to see, and it’s our pleasure to tailor this tour to suit your interests. Simply tell us where your interests lie – whether you’d like a general overview, or to see more of one style or include additional stops – and we’ll be happy to accommodate your wishes.
Simply enquire below for more information. Alternatively, book online now and we will be in touch to finalise your tour details.
