Around the remains of the Berlin Wall, various projects have been created in the last decades to convey the historical dimension of the barrier and the suffering caused, e.g. the Berlin Wall Memorial, but also to create new perspectives, such as the Wall Park, the East Side Gallery and the cherry trees on the Wall strip.
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Tours & Offers
You can find many offers for tours along the Berlin Wall at different providers online.
Berlin Wall: Small Group Guided Tour
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Berlin Wall: City Tour of Divided Germany
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Berlin: Historical Sights & Berlin Wall Tour with a Berliner
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Bike Tours
Packages that include guided bike tours of the Berlin Wall can be found here.
Berlin: Guided Bike Tour of the Berlin Wall and Third Reich
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Berlin Wall: Cold War Era History Guided Bike Tour
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Berlin Wall History Small Group Cycling Tour
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Fragment of the Berlin Wall | Pixabay
Activities for Berlin Visitors Interested in History
Bicycle Tours or City Tours Along the Berlin Wall
Former border crossings, such as the so-called Tränenpalast (Palace of Tears) at Friedrichstraße station, today's Mauerpark (Wall Park) and the Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Memorial) are some of the places where guided tours and tours around the Berlin Wall stop. Competent guides provide historical contextual information and answer open questions.
Important Places Along the Berlin Wall
Commemoration, but also further development, was the aim of various projects along the Berlin Wall.
Former guard tower | Flickr: Brian Dooley Public Domain
Berlin Wall Memorial
A restored section of the border fortifications, which can be overlooked from a former watchtower, is the centerpiece of the Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Memorial) alongside the Documentation Center. A variety of audio and visual recordings convey as complete a picture as possible of the former divide between East and West Germany.
Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie & Wall Museum
Popular tourist hotspot: The former U.S. border post Checkpoint Charlie not far from the Checkpoint Charlie Museum (Wall Museum) is visited by countless guests of Berlin. The Mauermuseum has been collecting tools used during the escape from the GDR since 1963 and tells the personal stories of those who fled.
East Side Gallery
East Side Gallery
The East Side Gallery is a permanent exhibition of street art directly on preserved fragments of the Wall. The section between Berlin's Ostbahnhof and Oberbaumbrücke is the longest continuous one.
Karaoke in the Wall Park | Pixabay
Wall Park
On the borderline between the districts of Wedding and Prenzlauer Berg, the Wall ran through what is now Mauerpark (Wall Park), which is best known for its flea market, regular karaoke events, and other cultural highlights.
General information
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The starting point of the tours is often the Friedrichstraße train station, for bike tours along the Wall the meeting point is e.g. near the Bornholmer Str. S-Bahn station . Please refer to the information provided by the provider for details. The exact locations of individual sights can be found on the corresponding pages.
Written byMaurizio MassaroMaurizio is a cosmopolitan, a musician and comes around. In his role as a content manager at TicketLens, he is always striving to find new offers as well as writing about sights all over the world.