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5 Days in Berlin: Exploring History and Art

Çağlar Kurt

12 Nov 2023

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Join me on a thrilling journey through Berlin's rich history and vibrant art scene. Discover iconic landmarks, world-class museums, and thought-provoking memorials in this 5-day itinerary.

Trip to Berlin

Tours & Activities

Viator Tours

Day 1

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$63

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$ 13

WALLYARD CONCEPT HOSTEL

Depart from your stay 🏨

15 - 18 min

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Directions

Wall Museum - Checkpoint Charlie

Museum founded by human rights activist, with displays on the Berlin Wall & human rights movements.

10:00 AM - 9:30 AM

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Free

10 - 15 min

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Directions

Berlinische Galerie

Modern museum for fine art, photography & architecture created in Berlin from 1870 to the present.

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

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$25

10 - 15 min

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Directions

Checkpoint Charlie

Landmark boundary marking east & west Berlin with a white sentry guard house & cobbled border line.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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$38

10 - 15 min

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Gendarmenmarkt

Public square lined with impressive architecture, hosting an annual Christmas market & ice rink.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Free

14 - 21 min

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Directions

Topography of Terror

Modern center on the site of the former Gestapo headquarters, documenting the horrors of Nazism.

No time set

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Free

Day 2

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$58

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$ 20

WALLYARD CONCEPT HOSTEL

Depart from your stay 🏨

18 - 22 min

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Directions

Pergamonmuseum

Museum complex housing ancient Roman & Greek art collections, plus Babylonian & Persian antiquities.

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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$35

6 - 9 min

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Berlin Cathedral

Majestic 1800s cathedral with an organ with 7,269 pipes, plus royal tombs & a dome for city views.

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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$23

11 - 14 min

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Berlin Wall Memorial

Commemorative stretch of the historic divide with a preserved section of original wall & memorial.

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

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Free

Day 3

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$105

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$ 13

WALLYARD CONCEPT HOSTEL

Depart from your stay 🏨

17 - 21 min

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Directions

Altes Museum

Landmark neoclassical building with 18 columns & rotunda, with displays of Roman & Greek artifacts.

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

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$35

4 - 6 min

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Alte Nationalgalerie

Collection of Romantic, Impressionist & early Modernist art in an elegant, colonnaded building.

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

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$35

8 - 11 min

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Bode-Museum

Riverside museum of sculpture & Byzantine art, with regular exhibitions & events, plus a shop.

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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$35

Day 4

+

$70

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$ 26

WALLYARD CONCEPT HOSTEL

Depart from your stay 🏨

11 - 14 min

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Directions

Neue Nationalgalerie

European & American 20th-century masterpieces on display in a Mies van der Rohe-designed museum.

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

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$35

6 - 8 min

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Brandenburg Gate

Restored 18th-century gate & landmark with 12 Doric columns topped by a classical goddess statue.

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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Free

9 - 11 min

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Directions

Neues Museum

Grand 19th-century museum with collections of Egyptian artwork & prehistoric archaeology.

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

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$35

Budget breakdown: $367 In total

Activities & Food:$296

Transport:$72