Plan your Berlin trip with our curated itineraries and day trips. Explore the city in 1 day or venture out on historical excursions.
One day in Berlin is enough to understand how the city’s turbulent twentieth century fits together, as long as you stay in one compact area and resist the urge to see everything. The route below starts at the Berlin Wall Memorial, crosses the government district to the Brandenburg Gate and the Topography of Terror, and…
The best historical day trips from Berlin are Potsdam, for Prussian palaces and the 1945 Potsdam Conference; the Sachsenhausen Memorial, for the history of Nazi persecution; Dresden, for Baroque Saxony and its postwar reconstruction; and Hamburg, for Hanseatic trade and maritime history. If the Reformation or the Peaceful Revolution of 1989 interests you more, Lutherstadt…
