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visitBerlin.com 25 00 (0)30-25 +49 Hotels, Tickets, Info Tickets, Hotels, Discover Berlin’s local gems! Alte Fasanerie Lübars Tangoloft Park am Gleisdreieck 12 boroughs – over 700 top tips in one app! 2 Lübars, with its countryside and late 4 The real deal in 8 A spreading green park directly eighteenth-century baroque church, tango – in the at Potsdamer Platz! Perfect for has retained its rural village charm. Tango Loft Mitte, a a picnic or beach volleyball – or And there's fun for all the family at the Alte hidden gem in a court- just to stretch out and let the sun Weißensee Bathing Beach Berlin’s heart beats in the ‘kiez’ – in the neighbourhoods! Fasanerie farm – with activities, animals yard loft in Wedding. do the rest! The city map and the Going Local Berlin app are packed and plants, and a playground! Buddhist House Gerichtstraße 23 Möckernstraße26, 10963 Berlin c Pankow for purists! If you have enough Fasanerie 10, 13469 Berlin 13347 Berlin gruen-berlin.de/gleisdreieck time to explore a very different side of tangoloft-berlin.de with ideas and insights to make your Berlin stay even alte-fasanerie-luebars.de 3 Meditate – in the Buddhist Pankow, just walk or bike along the banks more fun! House in Frohnau of the gentle River Panke. More a stream than a Edelhofdamm 54, 13465 Berlin Uferhallen and torrent, the Panke gave this borough its name. das-buddhistische-haus.de Weißensee Bathing Beach Going Local Berlin showcases all twelve Berlin boroughs and around Uferstudios Barnimstrasse The trail is well sign-posted and takes you Caribbean Atmosphere 60 fascinating, trendy, and charming neighbourhoods – and with Women’s Prison b around 14km through Pankow. The “Dicke Marie” Oak Tree 5 Built in the 1920s A bathing beach with over 700 top tips, highlighted events, eateries and coffee houses, our 1 panke.info as workshops for The 90-minute audio tour palm trees – a perfect app helps you enjoy Berlin like a real Berliner from the word go. Stroll down the Greenwich- Berlin’s trams, these 7 promenade to the Sechser- of the site of this former place to relax, swim, sun- The app also includes tours and videos. From the Buddhist House in halls are now an unusual women’s prison offers a bathe, barbecue and dance. brücke bridge at Tegeler See venue for creative work Reinickendorf to the Fischerkiez neighbourhood in Köpenick or the journey through time in the Berliner Kriminal Theater Berliner Allee 155, 13088 Berlin lake, past the harbour and and an exhibition space Hufeisensiedlung modernist estate in Neukölln – our app helps you life histories of women under binbaden.com palace grounds, and head into for art and dance. Exciting whatever the time of year Anatomical Theatre five political systems 9 discover Berlin’s local gems! the Tegeler Forst woods to Uferstraße 8–11 – classic crime thrillers on stage Berlin’s oldest tree, the Barnimstraße 10, 10249 Berlin Once a research centre fighting 13357 Berlin at the Berliner Kriminal Theater. #GoingLocalBerlin Fat Marie oak tree. 6 barnimmstrasse.de animal epidemics, the neoclassical uferstudios.com Palisadenstraße 48, 10243 Berlin Mies van der Rohe Haus An der Malche, 13507 Berlin kriminaltheater.de Anatomical Theatre (Tieranatomisches d In 1932, Bauhaus director Mies van der Rohe Theater) designed by Carl Gotthard designed a gem of modernist architecture. Langhans resembles an amphitheatre. Today, the house showcases a fascinating series Five good reasons Philippstraße 12/13, 10115 Berlin of temporary modern art exhibitions. kulturtechnik.hu-berlin.de/tat Oberseestraße 60, 13053 Berlin, miesvanderrohehaus.de 12 boroughs boroughs 12 for downloading the app Berlin‘s Berlin‘s Staaken Garden City Berlin-Hohenschönhausen H Discover Discover It’s free: App-solutely free to download – Memorial with over 700 hand-picked tips on enjoying z Especially in the early 1920s, Staaken Garden City, considered Berlin! e The Memorial recalls a prime example of progressive 3 Rykestrasse Synagogue a dark chapter in East H Offline functionality: Once you have installed urban architecture, served as a model c Germany’s history. Tours the app on your smart phone, you can fully ac- Fort Hahneberg for publicly-funded residential housing. a With seating for over of the complex, a site of politi- visitBerlin.de/neighbourhoods cess the images, maps, and tips – even offline. Am Heideberg 12, 13591 Berlin 2000 people, Europe’s cal persecution from 1945 to � The last artillery fort built in 2 largest synagogue 1989, are led by contemporary Friedrichsfelde Palace H Germany, Fort Hahneberg is now is somewhat hidden in a Berlin tips and details on the city’s boroughs and Panke witnesses. f Built in 1685, Friedrichsfelde Palace is now renowned as an architectural courtyard in Rykestraße. neighbourhoods: Check out “Hidden Gems”, “Must-See Sights” Genslerstraße 66, 13055 Berlin one of Berlin’s most impressive baroque and natural monument. In 2018, and “Food + Drink” to discover our top personal tips and Berlin's Rykestraße 53, 10405 Berlin stiftung-hsh.de palaces and grounds. the hexagonal fortress is celebrating 1 jg-berlin.org event calendar highlights. Am Tierpark, 10319 Berlin, schloss-friedrichsfelde.de Berlin its 130th anniversary. H Navigating Berlin: With GPS localization, you can view Berlin Hahnebergweg 50, 13591 Berlin forthahneberg.de top tips or find the nearest Berlin Tourist Info Centre, and simply Alt-Marzahn Village let the “Point me there” compass function guide you there. And The picturesque Alt-Marzahn Going Local Local Going g you’ll always know exactly in which district you are! Pankow Reinickendorf village, set against a backdrop H Favourites: Create your own list of Berlin tips and must-see sights of high-rise estates, still retains Unspoiled nature a unique charm. to discover! Swim in or sail on b Alt-Marzahn, 12685 Berlin � Spandau anders-als-erwartet.de the River Havel, 5 d or canoe through 4 e g h The Gründerzeit Museum Find out more about the Tiefwerder water y meadows, Little Venice The Gründerzeit Museum in the Berlin’s boroughs and and Stößensee lake. a i neighbourhoods on Mahlsdorf Manor House offers Brandensteinweg 37 6 7 guided tours of its collection of visitBerlin.de/neighbourhoods 13595 Berlin 035 19th-century interiors. der-bootsladen.de Mitte Lichtenberg v 9 Marzahn-Hellersdorf Hutschiner Damm 333, 12623 Berlin 036 gruenderzeitmuseum.de w f Villa Oppenheim i v The Villa Oppenheim not only houses the q 8 Berlin Tourist Info Centres Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Museum, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg but also an art collection showcasing m nineteenth-century works and paintings by Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf x Local info ZOB – Central Coach Station Berlin Berlin Secession artists. n (Zentraler Omnibus bahnhof Berlin) Gardens of the World Schloßstraße 55, 14059 Berlin p Brandenburg Gate Masurenallee 4–6 villa-oppenheim-berlin.de h In the Gardens of (Brandenburger Tor) Mon, Fri, Sat 8am–8pm the World, you can Pariser Platz / south gatehouse Tue–Thu + Sun 8am–4pm* Neukölln explore very diverse daily 9.30am – 6pm* U Kaiserdamm landscaping traditions. S+U Brandenburger Tor S Messe Nord/ICC t j Eisenacher Straße 99 Tempelhof-Schöneberg 12685 Berlin Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) Europa-Center Berlin l gruen-berlin.de/ Europaplatz entrance, ground floor Tauentzienstraße 9, ground floor Steglitz-Zehlendorf o k gaerten-der-welt daily 8am –10pm Mon–Sat 10am–8pm Haus des Rundfunks S+U+B Hauptbahnhof S+U Zoologischer Garten U Kurfürstendamm, Wittenbergplatz Tegel Airport (TXL) w This is Berlin calling – tour an B Europa-Center icon of German broadcasting history. Terminal A, Gate 1 r Masurenallee 8–14, 14059 Berlin Treptow-Köpenick daily 8am – 8pm Online haus-des-rundfunks.de s u and main hall daily 7am – 10pm Fischerkiez B TXL, X9, 109, 128 visitBerlin.com Eva Lichtspiele Cinema Marienfelde Refugee Neighbourhood Hotel Park Inn by Radisson facebook.com/visitBerlin Centre Museum That special movie feeling – k Today, the for- Berlin Alexanderplatz facebook.com/Berlin x mer Fischerkiez screenings of old films in the The museum at the historical Alexanderplatz 7, hotel lobby twitter.com/visitBerlin r is a sleepy little historic atmosphere of the Refugee Centre presents an Theater im Keller Mon–Sat 7am–9pm, Sun 8am–6pm youtube.com/Berlin street. Close to the Eva Lichtspiele cinema. exhibition on the movement S+U+B Alexanderplatz instagram.com/visit_Berlin Restaurant Krokodil, you can Blissestraße 18, 14057 Berlin of refugees from East to West m The Theater im Keller blog.visitBerlin.de find Berlin’s only surviving eva-lichtspiele.de Germany. Many refugees from East presents a roller-coaster Durchführung: Institute.K., Plastination für Heidelberg * Extended opening hours April–October #visitBerlin river bathing beach. The attrac- Germany first passed through this drag show – from camp tively refurbished single-storey West Berlin Refugee Centre, which character cabaret to avant- houses recall the original 19th- welcomed 1.35 million people from garde numbers, laugh-out-loud comedy and live songs. century fishing village. Glienicker Brücke 1953 to 1990. Sehitlik Mosque Kietz, 12557 Berlin Local Tourist Info Centres Marienfelder Allee 66/80, 12277 Berlin Weserstraße 211 12047 Berlin With its view of notaufnahmelager-berlin.de The Sehitlik Mosque s n travestieshow.info Marzahn-Hellersdorf Reinickendorf – Humboldt Library Potsdam, Glienicke Urban Nation on Columbiadamm Tourist Information Karolinenstraße 19 Brücke still offers a recalls the classical real sense of the Wall and q Since 16 September 2017, this Eisenacher Straße 99 Mon–Fri 11am–7pm, Sat 11am–4pm* museum has been setting new Ottoman architecture of division of Germany. Nazi Forced Labour Apr–Oct Mon–Fri 9am–5pm U accents in Berlin’s cultural landscape the 16th and 17th centu- Alt-Tegel Berliner Straße 67, 14467 Berlin Nov–Mar Mon–Fri 9am–5pm tourismusinfo-berlin.de and rethinking the classic idea of a ries.