Berlin offers every visitor what they like. Here you can find world-famous sights like the Brandenburg Gate, stroll through parks, go on the water and discover the city’s museums. But there are also places in Berlin that are a little off the beaten track. It is precisely these places, the “Berlin insider tips”, that make life in the city what we Berliners love so much.
I would like to introduce some of these places here.
Discover our Berlin insider tips
Berlin, Open Monument Day 2018 - and I finally have time to join one of the free guided tours. In the program, a guided tour to a place that I would not have seen as a monument jumps into my eye.
I admit it, a tour of a crematorium sounds strange at first until you learn what is in the building today.
This article begins with …once upon a time… and ends with a big question mark. Once upon a time, the Siemensstadt S-Bahn ran from Jungfernheide station to Haselhorst. It's not that long ago that even my parents still drove this route to school and university every day and countless Siemens workers used this route every…
Berlin is so wonderfully diverse and offers interesting excursion options that we, as Berliners, are only gradually discovering. We went on a discovery trip to the Old Malt House of the Schultheiss Brewery.
What a lot there is to find in Berlin's underground. Not only cellars, kilometre-long pipelines or sewers can be found here - here you can also find buried underground tunnels or underground tunnels that were built and never used. Come with us into the Eisack tunnel and deep under Innsbrucker Platz.
Tempelhof Airport is one of the monumental buildings of National Socialism. In the first part of the report on our sightseeing tour, I report on the development and our discoveries at the airport up to 1945.
For a long time, Tempelhof Airport was one of three Berlin airports. It was finally closed in 2008. The history of the airport is marked by myths and mysteries, some of which remain unexplained to this day.
"Experience the city" is the motto of Ulrike, who offered us an interesting walk through Neukölln at the ReiseBlogger Camp. Not through all of Neukölln, Ulrike led us through Rixdorf.
The best way to find out where Berlin's coldest point is is to ask the meteorologists - or look at the Berlin city map and search for a name that actually reveals exactly that it must be particularly cold here - Eiskeller (ice cellar).
Not so long ago in the year 1969, a wondrous amusement park opened in East Berlin. It was called Spreepark Berlin and it remained open until 2002.