Places in Berlin
The 17 essential places in the guide. Numbers refer to the map.
1Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany.
Monuments2Reichstag building
The Reichstag is a historic legislative government building on Platz der Republik in Berlin that is the seat of the Bundestag parliament.
Monuments3Museum Island
The Museum Island is a museum complex on the northern part of Spree Island in the historic heart of Berlin, Germany.
Museums4Berlin Cathedral
Berlin Cathedral, also known as the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church, is a monumental German Protestant church and dynastic tomb at the Lustgarten on the Museum Island in central Berlin.
Churches and chapels5Pergamon Museum
The Pergamon Museum is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany.
Museums6Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie was the Western Bloc’s name for the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War, becoming a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West.
Monuments7East Side Gallery
The East Side Gallery memorial in Berlin-Friedrichshain is a permanent open-air gallery on the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall in Mühlenstraße between the Berlin Ostbahnhof and the Oberbaumbrücke along the Spree.
Monuments8Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer
The Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer commemorates the division of Berlin by the Berlin Wall and the deaths that occurred there.
Monuments9Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold.
Monuments10Gendarmenmarkt
The Gendarmenmarkt is a square in Berlin and the site of an architectural ensemble that includes the Berlin concert hall, along with the French and German Churches.
Squares and streets11Alexanderplatz
Alexanderplatz is a large public square and transport hub in the central Mitte district of Berlin.
Squares and streets12Fernsehturm Berlin
The Fernsehturm in central Berlin was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the government of the German Democratic Republic as both a functional broadcasting facility and a symbol of communist power.
Viewpoints13Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, mostly known simply as the Memorial Church is a Protestant church affiliated with the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia, a regional body of the Protestant Church in Germany.
Churches and chapels14Schloss Charlottenburg
Schloss Charlottenburg is a Baroque palace in Berlin, located in Charlottenburg, a district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough, and is among the largest palaces in the world.
Monuments15Tiergarten
The Tiergarten, formal German name: Großer Tiergarten, is a prominent park in Berlin’s inner-city area, located completely in the district of the same name.
Gardens16Potsdamer Platz
Potsdamer Platz is a public square and traffic intersection in the centre of Berlin, Germany, lying about 1 km south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag, and close to the southeast corner of the Tiergarten park.
Squares and streets17Unter den Linden
Unter den Linden is a boulevard in the central Mitte district of Berlin, Germany.
Squares and streets