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East Berlin: City of Shadows - Private 3-Hour tour
Private 3-Hour Historical Tour of East Berlin City
Private 3-Hour Historical Tour of East Berlin City
East Berlin: City of Shadows - Private 3-Hour tour
Private 3-Hour Historical Tour of East Berlin City

East Berlin: City of Shadows - Private 3-Hour tour

By Insight Cities
Free cancellation available
Price is P 20,244 per traveler* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travelers
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Overview

This 3-hour private guided tour explores the surviving monuments of the East German regime including the infamous Berlin Wall and Stasi headquarters. Your private guide will reveal the dialogue between modern Berlin’s built environment and its dark and often hidden history. You’ll hear about life under Communist rule, the East Germans’ growing discontent and their government’s brutal suppression.

Activity location

  • Brandenburg Gate
    • Pariser Platz
    • 10117, Berlin, Germany, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Unter den Linden 42
    • 42 Unter den Linden
    • 10117, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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10:00 am
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h3h
  • English

3-hour private walking tour of East Berlin in the company of a historian

Language options: English
Starting time: 10:00
Price details
P 20,243.78 x 1 TravelerP 20,243.78
Total
Price is P 20,243.78
Until Sat, Jun 22
2:00 pm
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h3h
  • English

3-hour private walking tour of East Berlin in the company of a historian

Language options: English
Starting time: 14:00
Price details
P 22,960.29 x 1 TravelerP 22,960.29
Total
Price is P 22,960.29
Until Sat, Jun 22

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedPrivate walking tour
  • What's includedWhat's includedProfessional art historian guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedFood and drinks, unless specified
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedHotel pickup and drop-off
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedGratuities
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTransportation to/from attractions: You will need to use public transport a few times, since the distances between some key sites would be too far to walk. If you will not have a few days visitor's transit pass to Berlin already, we suggest that you purchase the day metro pass. If you cannot purchase it in advance, your guide will help you purchase it at the first metro station on the tour. Berlin Transit One Way Tarif AB Ticket 2.8 Euro, Senior Discount 1,70 EUR Berlin Transit Day Ticket for one Person 7 Euro, Senior Discount 4,70 EUR

Know before you book

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Your tour guides are expert local historians and enthusiastic hosts who love helping travelers discover Berlin.

Activity itinerary

Brandenburg Gate
  • 20m
A historian will reveal the dialogue between modern Berlin’s built environment and its dark and often hidden history. You’ll hear about life under Communist rule, the East Germans’ growing discontent and their government’s brutal suppression. The tour begins at the Brandenburg Gate where, in June 1987, President Ronald Reagan famously called on Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to, “tear down this wall!” Nearby is the former Soviet Embassy, a grandiose monument built in 1945 amid the rubble of World War II as a bold declaration of Stalin’s ambition to control all of Berlin. We will discuss how the Allies’ post­war division of Germany into four parts led to decades of Cold War tensions.
Friedrichstrasse
  • 15m
Friedrichstrasse train station, a key crossing point between East and West Berlin. When families were torn apart by East Germany’s ironfisted immigration laws, they said their sad goodbyes here in the office known as the Palace of Tears.
Park am Nordbahnhof
  • 10m
At Nordbahnhof, we’ll explore how Berlin’s division created “ghost” stations, unused but heavily guarded stops on West Berlin’s subway lines that lay in East German territory.
Karl-Marx-Allee
  • 10m
We visit the grandiose mile-­long housing complex known as Karl Marx Allee and consider how East Germans’ dreams for a Socialist paradise turned into a nightmare of deprivation, suppression and paranoia.
Memorial of the Berlin Wall
  • 15m
The Berlin Wall memorial allows you to experience the notorious Death Strip and hear stories of East Berliners whose attempts to escape led to their tragic deaths.
Stasimuseum
  • 10m
East Germany’s secret police, the notorious Stasi, coerced neighbors and family members to spy on each other. At the former Stasi headquarters, you’ll learn how its feared leader Eric Mielke recruited a massive network of spies and created innovative surveillance techniques.
Alexanderplatz
  • 10m
We will visit the center of public life in East Berlin, Alexanderplatz, which was rebuilt in the 1960s with monuments like the futuristic parliament building and the iconic TV Tower. In 1989, this symbol of East German pride was the setting for massive demonstrations that led to the regime’s downfall and brought 40 years of Communist rule to an end.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESBrandenburg Gate
    • Pariser Platz
    • 10117, Berlin, Germany, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEUnter den Linden 42
    • 42 Unter den Linden
    • 10117, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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