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Berlin Guide Provided by Dies Ist Ein Auszug Auf Dem Berlin Guide, Der Für Den Youth 20 Dialogue 2017 Erstellt Wurde Berlin Guide provided by Dies ist ein Auszug auf dem Berlin Guide, der für den Youth 20 Dialogue 2017 erstellt wurde. Conference Schedule Sports Programme Berlin Tours and Events Meet Experts in Berlin Places to See, Places to Be Guide Contact Persons and Phone Numbers Imprint Dear participants of Youth 20 Dialogue, To make your stay in Kleinmachnow and in Berlin during Youth 20 Dialogue 2017 an unforgettable experience, we have prepared this special guide for you. This guide aims to make you feel comfortable while in Berlin and Kleinmachnow. Apart from information on important contacts and numbers, it provides a lot of ideas for spending a great free time with your peers. The guide starts of with a detailed conference schedule informing you about all the offi cial meetings and planned activities. Nothing refreshes more than sports. Therefore, a section on the sports activities in Kleinmachnow is included, giving you also a map with the jogging routes. In the next section, you fi nd information about the guided tours in Berlin we have organized for you to get familiar with the city. A short introduction to the special events is also included. This section is followed by Meet the Experts in Berlin where you fi nd descriptions of the people and institutions you are going to visit on Tuesday, 6 June. At Places to See, Places to Be we briefl y present the must-sees of the city alongside the places you are going Berlin to visit during the offi cial programme. And of course, we offer you the fi nest selection of places, restaurants, cafés, hang-outs, and bars we love to go ourselves. It is of course not an extensive guidebook on Berlin, therefore do not hesitate to contact us if you wish to know something in particular. Have a great time in Kleinmachnow and Berlin! Your FI ELDS, team Sports Programme 2 Sportforum 3 Freibad 5 1 4 Machnower See 6 7 8 9 10 Kleinmachnow Sports Programme 1 6 NH Conference Center Lock Route 1 Route 2 Zehlendorfer Damm 190 This monumental lock from Your headquarters the early 20th century Around Machnower See Into the woods allows boats to access the This lovely jogging course of about Another jogging course, a little Teltow canal, a shortcut 2 4 km will lead you around the lake. shorter at about 3 km, leads you around Berlin From the hotel, cross the parking through the nature reserve Bäketal, Sportforum and TC lot and go down the stairs to the which is a typical marshland for this Kleinmachnow 1961 e.V. 7 canal. Follow the canal to the right. part of Germany. The route ends with Join your peers in a round of Festwiese After a few meters, cross the street a round of the Festwiese, a meadow squash, badminton, tennis, The so-called fairground, with Zehlendorfer Damm — you’ll see the with special information on the local basketball, table tennis, special information on the lake in front of you. On the right, fl ora and fauna. From there you can or football! local fl ora and fauna, as well there is a path. Take this path around also spot the former castle of the as the ruins of the former the lake through a small forest. If knights of Hake. Route: From the 3 castle of the knights of Hake you are lucky, you can take a peek at hotel, cross the parking lot and go Freibad Kiebitzberge the Neue Hakeburg, a neoromantic down the stairs to the canal. Follow Fontanestraße 30 8 manor built in 1901 by an heir of the the canal up towards the lake, turn knights of Hake, who ruled this area left to cross the bridge and enter the Swim and relax at an 16th century church open-air pool in the past. Watch the boats going street Am Weinberg. There you will This church used to lie right through the monumental lock, before pass a couple of pretty villas and one in the former city centre of crossing the canal again. Follow of Kleinmachnow’s high schools. At 4 Kleinmachnow the street Allee am Forsthaus. You the end of the road, you will reach Football and sports yard will fi nd your way back to the hotel the small nature reserve Bäketal. 9 passing by an old forester’s house Turn right there. The path will lead 400 years-old oak tree and the 16th century church that you up to the church passing by a 5 marks the former city-centre of little gardening shop and a 400 year- Neue Hakeburg Kleinmachnow. old oak tree. Turn left at the church A neoromantic manor built 10 and do a round of the Festwiese. in the early 20th century Bäketal nature reserve by an heir of the knights of This protected area covers Hake, who once ruled over a typical northern German 4 km 3 km these lands marshland Berlin Tours and Events Boat trip through the heart of Berlin with MS Phantasia MS Phantasia will take you further to Berlin’s district of Charlottenburg, passing by the offi cial residence of the German president, Bellevue Palace, and the cultural centre House of the Cultures Berlin Tours of the World. Enjoy the nice fresh breeze and Events The MS Phantasia will take you and the riverside view on the over the waves of the river through buildings you surely will want to see the heart of Berlin! The one-and- more closely while in Berlin. You Tour by boat Dinner a-half-hour trip by boat shows you can fi nd more information on the the main sights of the city from the buildings in Places to see, Places Guided city walk Theatre perspective of the river. The tour to be. will start at Schiffbauerdamm. City tour by bus Party It will take you to the Museum www.spree-havelschifffahrt.de Island and to the oldest quarter of Berlin, the Nicolaiviertel. Rounding On the next pages, we present different tours to discover the island, you will pass by the Berlin and the special cultural and evening activities of Youth Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs 20 Dialogue. The boat trip is part of the offi cial programme and after a while you will see the for the whole group. The guided tours are a set of optional Government quarter with the walking tours to choose from on Monday afternoon. The bus Friday, 2 June | 11:00-12:30 Reichstag, seat of the Parliament, 100 is yet another way to meet Berlin and see lots of sights The ship waits for you at the quay the Federal Press Offi ce and on the go. at Schiffbauerdamm 12. the Chancellery. We will go there together. A Berlin Tours and Events Krongut Bornstedt Political Berlin We will have dinner at city and how two this nice estate in the cities became one Italian style, whose after 1989. During origins date back to the two-hour walk, the beginnings of you will visit the old the 16th century, on centre of power at Saturday night. It is Wilhelmstraße where in fact a whole little the government village with a church buildings during and gardens designed World War II were by the famous located. The walk landscape architect will lead you to the The Krongut Bornstedt welcomes Peter Joseph Lenné and gives a nice current Government you with a delicious choice of impression of the architecture and Become an expert on Berlin’s quarter with the Reichstag, seat typical dishes of the region. The landscape of Brandenburg. historical development in the 20th of the national parliament and the restaurant forms part of a former and 21st century! The tour provides Chancellery, which you will visit estate of the Prussian emperors an overview of Berlin’s current and Thursday, 7 June when you present and is part of the palaces and www.krongut-bornstedt.de former political importance. It is the position paper to Chancellor gardens of Sanssouci. It is under the Ribbeckstraße 6-7 an ideal introduction to Berlin’s Angela Merkel. protection of the UNESCO. 14469 Potsdam history, focussing on Berlins Interested? Please sign up on the development during World War II lists you fi nd on the billboard. and the Cold War. The tour guide can tell you interesting stories www.berlin-tour-and-guide.de about what life was like in a divided political berlin walking tour Monday 5 June | 16:30-18:30 Saturday, 3 June | 20:00 The tour starts in front of the Reichstag, the seat of the German The dinner starts at 20:00. parliament. The guide waits for you in front of the ticket box. The group will go there together by the Y20-bus. The group will go there together, either on foot or by public transport. Meeting: Lobby of the hotel, at 19:30. Meeting: Assembly room of the hotel, around 16:00. Berlin Tours and Events The Jewish Berlin Berlin Wall The tour of course you along the former will provide you with deathstrip to the new meaningful insights government quarter. into the darkest part During this tour, you of German history, will see the longest the Holocaust. Otto part of the Berlin Weidt, Berlin’s Oscar Wall still in existence Schindler, saved many which is close to the of his Jewish friends Topography of Terror, and colleagues from a documentation deportation and you centre about Nazi The tour helps you discover the will have the opportunity to visit his terror. Part of the tour Jewish life in Berlin from the past small workshop for the blind, which Why did the German Democratic is a visit to the last existing guard and present.
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