Berlin City Highlights (a small range of highlights) Berlin is a dynamic, cosmopolitan and creative city and the capital of Germany. East meets West, tradition and innovation coexist in the metropolis at the heart of a changing Europe. Berlin is characterized by its turbulent past. Since the unification twenty years ago the city has risen to the urban and environmental challenges of rebuilding itself. Here we present you the most interesting sights and places of the city which you should not miss during your stay in Berlin and can book directly on site at the congress office. Further information about most famous attractions of Berlin, please find here: www.berlin.de/international/attractions/index.en.php Discover Berlin with our City Circle Tour in 13 languages! Board and leave the coach as you wish at 20 different stops throughout the city, or remain seated and experience the capital during one two-and-a-half-hour tour: the choice is yours. Commentary via your included personal headphones in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Chinese, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese and Hebrew. Price: EUR 22.- per person (children 6-14 years: EUR 11.-) Hop on/Hop off points: 1a Kurfürstendamm 216 / Fasanenstr. - office / shopping mile, Kempinski Eck 1b Kurfürstendamm 220/225, corner Meinekestraße / shopping mile, Ku'damm Eck 1c Rankestr. / Kurfürstendamm / Memorial Church, Europa Center, Zoological Garden, Aquarium 2 KaDeWe / Germany's largest department store, underground station Wittenbergplatz 3 Lützowplatz/Hotel Berlin Berlin - Bauhaus Museum 4 Kulturforum Tiergarten / Memorial German Resistance, Philharmonic Hall, Painting Gallery 5 Potsdamer Platz / Panoramapunkt, Daimler City, Sony Center 6 Jewish Museum 7 Checkpoint Charlie / Wall Museum 8 Gendarmenmarkt / Galeries Lafayette, German and French Cathedral 9 Eastside Gallery / O2 World 10 Neptunbrunnen / TV Tower, Red Town Hall, St. Nicholas Quarter 11 Alexanderplatz 12 DomAquarée - office / boat pier, Sea Life, DDR Museum 13 Lustgarten/Humboldt-Box - Berlin Cathedral, Island of Museums 14 Unter den Linden/Friedrichstr. - State Opera House, Humboldt University, Madame Tussauds 15 Brandenburg Gate / Reichstag, Government district 16 Hauptbahnhof / Meininger City Hostel 17 Victory Column / Palace Bellevue, Tiergarten park 18 Flea Market 19 Palace Charlottenburg / Bröhan Museum, Berggruen Collection 20 Antikmeile Kantstraße / Antique shopping, Lietzensee lake Please see the timetable for rates and departure times on the website www.getyourguide.de/berlin/2-tage-berlin-mit-dem-hop-on-hop-off-sightseeing-tour-pass-t3267. We decline all responsibility for traffic-related delays and detours; seating availability is on a first come, first served basis. Berliner Unterwelten e.V. – Berlin underground Tour 1 – Dark Worlds Every day, hundreds of people walk past a Berlin. Over the course of the tour, visitors will green door in the Gesundbrunnen view a museum exhibition of WWII remnants Underground railway station unaware that that the Berlin Underworlds' Association has within lies a subterranean labyrinth full of retrieved during their work below ground. The authentic history waiting to be experienced. Underworlds Museum displays objects from How uncomfortable it must have been during many layers of the long and fascinating history WWII to be crammed inside these small of subterranean Berlin. Visitors will see chambers – the depleted air supply, the artifacts from Berlin's late-19th century incessant clanging of ventilation machines, the pneumatic dispatch system, as well as thundering of bomber aircrafts overhead. This documentation of the hundreds of kilometres atmosphere of fear and anguish can still be of Berlin's sewer systems and of the city's sensed today. many amazing cathedral-like brewery cellars. Tour 1 will lead visitors through civilian shelters and bunker complexes as they learn about life during the bombing campaigns in Tour 3 – Subways, Bunkers, Cold War This tour follows the traces of the Cold War in for up to 48 hours. Here, with the help of the underground. In West Berlin civil defence various objects and photos, we will deal with shelters were reactivated or newly built in some related themes. preparation for a possible nuclear war. Particularly after the building of the Berlin After a short ride via the U-Bahn to Wall, the West German government and the Pankstrasse station, we offer a glimpse into West Berlin senate invested millions in these the workings of a 'modern' bunker, which was projects. Some of these were built as ‘multi- intended to protect the citizens of West Berlin purpose structures’ and are currently used as in case of a full-blown nuclear war. This 'multi- underground stations, parking garages and purpose' facility, built in 1977 along with the storage facilities. By explaining the practical northbound extension of the U8 Underground preparations made to help people survive, this line, serves not only as an U-Bahn stop for tour attempts to make the realities and horrors commuters – in an emergency it could have of such conflict easy to comprehend. sheltered 3,339 people for up to two weeks. Here, we try to give you an idea what it could First we visit the civil defence shelter – have been like, had World War Three broken “Blochplatz”, an air raid shelter from WWII out. that was renovated in the early 1980s. In an emergency 1,318 people were to shelter here Please find more detailed information regarding the both tours on the website http://berliner-unterwelten.de/guided-tours. Trabi-Safari – Zimmerstr. 97, 10117 Berlin (TRABI was the most common vehicle in East driving fun is guaranteed. On this tour it will Germany) be YOU taking over the steering wheel and maneuvring this unique vehicle. While you are A few years ago only a few enthusiasts dared enjoying the sights passing by the windows of to show themselves in public with their Trabis. your personal Trabi, your guide provides you Anyway, times have changed - so now the cult with information about historical facts and vehicle of the East is back. "To drive a Trabi funnny things via radio. once in a lifetime" has not only become the dream of car and "East" fanatics, but is A Trabi-Safari will be an incomparable ranging amongst the cultural "musts" for any experience for everyone and for sure one of visitor. the ultimate highlights of your visit in Germany! With this unique sightseeing offer in Germany you you can combine unsurpassed driving Result: Unforgettable memory and flash feeling and nostalgic sightseeing with the real in your photo album! atmosphere of the past "East". Please find more information on the website No matter which colour your Trabi has or www.trabisafari.de. wether it's a convertable or a genuine closed one, on a tour with our all but ordinary fleet, Deutsche Oper Berlin – Bismarckstr. 35, 10627 Berlin 23 November, 2012 – 7.30 pm – Jeanne d’Arc – Walter Braunfels 24 November, 2012 – 7.30 pm – Romeo and Juliette (ballet) – William Shakespeare 25 November, 2012 – 6.00 pm – Carmen – Georges Bizet Please find more information on the website www.deutscheoperberlin.de. Staatsoper at Schillertheater – Bismarckstr. 110, 10627 Berlin 23 November, 2012 – 7.30 pm – Madame Butterfly – Giacomo Puccini 24 November, 2012 – 7.30 pm – La Finta Giardiniera – W. A. Mozart 25 November, 2012 – 6.00 pm – La Peri (ballet) Please find more information on the website www.staatsoper-berlin.org. Komische Oper Berlin – Behrenstr. 55-57, 10117 Berlin 23 November, 2012 – 7.30 pm – “Der Freischütz“ – Carl Maria von Weber 24 November, 2012 – 7.30 pm – “Im weißen Rößl“ – Ralph Benatzky 25 November, 2012 – 6.00 pm – ”Zauberflöte/Magic Flute” – W.A. Mozart Please find more information on the website www.komische-oper-berlin.de. Friedrichstadtpalast – Friedrichstr. 107, 10117 Berlin „SHOW:ME“ - 22 - 25 November, 2012 – 7.30 pm Glamour is back! like? And not each individually, but all three We breathe, of course, to live. But the greatest geniuses together? A dream team in the truest moments are those in which we hold our sense. breath. On the quest for just these moments, SHOW:ME homes in on one particularly The product of this dream line-up will be the fascinating notion: what if show icons from the event of 2012. past like Busby Berkeley, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and Esther Williams hadn’t had their heyday in Please find more information regarding the the past century, but here and now? What show on the website would a modern-day show by the greatest www.show-palace.eu. revue creators of the 1920s to the 1950s look Madam Tussauds Berlin – Unter den Linden 74, 10117 Berlin Madame Tussauds Berlin is your chance to music legends and icons of the silver screen on experience the real glamour and elegance of your star studded journey through the Berlin and the World of celebrity. You will find Madame Tussauds Berlin experience. a total of 82 figures featuring predominantly historical dignitaries, cultural icons and A-list Price: EUR 20.95* per person celebrities. * Save by online booking 10% of the Meet and interact with the people that shaped admission price. German history and culture, learn about their achievements through hands-on exhibits and Please find more information on the website immersive sets. Feel like a celebrity yourself as www.madametussauds.com/Berlin/. you mingle with A-list elite, sports champions, Potsdam Half –Day Tour from Berlin – Unter den Linden 74, 10117 Berlin Enjoy a half-day tour to Potsdam where you Viertel. Enjoy a walk through marvellous will have the chance to see marvelous gardens of Sanssouci and see the famous sites Sanssouci Palace and many other famous like Sanssouci Palace, New Palace, Palace New sights, palaces and gardens. Take opportunity Chambers, Historic Windmill, Charlottenhof to see Dutch Quarter, see Russian Colony Palace, the Roman Baths, the Orangery Palace "Alexandrowka" and more. and more. Visit Potsdam, the historic center near Berlin Take the opportunity to visit one of the palaces and see all the famous palaces and gardens in in Sanssouci gardens or relax in one of the Potsdam.