DISCOVER BERLIN: Attractions & Culture

Alexanderplatz Berlin - Alexanderplatz is a large open square and public transport hub in central Berlin, near the Spree river and the Berliner Dom. Berliners often call it simply Alex. Originally a cattle market, it was named in honour of a visit of the Russian Emperor Alexander I to Berlin in 1805. It gained a prominent role in the late 19th century ...

Berliner Dom Berlin - The Berliner Dom or Berlin Cathedral in Berlin, Germany was built between 1895 and 1905. It faces the Lustgarten and the Berlin City Palace. The first church built near here in 1465 was the court chapel for the Hohenzollern family within the castle complex ...

Berlin Wall Berlin - The Berlin Wall was a long barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of East Germany. The East German authorities called it the antifaschistischer Schutzwall (Anti-Fascist Protection Wall). Its purpose was to restrict access between West Berlin and East Germany ...

Brandenburg Gate Berlin - The Brandenburg Gate is a triumphal arch, the symbol of Berlin, Germany. Located on the Pariser Platz, it is the only remaining one of the series of gates through which one entered Berlin. One block to its north lies the Reichstag. It constitutes the monumental termination of Unter den Linden ...

Egyptian Museum Berlin - The Egyptian Museum of Berlin is home to one of the world's most important collections of Ancient Egyptian artefacts. The museum originated with the royal art collection of the Prussian kings: it was Alexander von Humboldt who recommended that an Egyptian section be created, and the first objects were brought to Berlin ...

Humboldt Museum Berlin - The Museum fur Naturkunde (in English, the Museum of Natural History), widely known as the Humboldt Museum of Berlin, is the first national museum in the world, with a massive collection of more than 25 million zoological, paleontological, and minerological specimens, including more than ten thousand type specimens ...

Museum Island Berlin - Museum Island in Berlin, is the name of the northern half of an island in the Spree river, in the center of the city. The museums on the island are some of the most important in the world. The island received its name for several internationally renowned museums that are now occupying all of the island's northern half ...

Pergamon Museum Berlin - The Pergamon Museum is one of the museums on the Museum Island in Berlin. It was planned by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann and was built over a period from 1910 to 1930. It houses original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as the Pergamon Altar, the Market Gate of Miletus, and the Ishtar Gate ...

Potsdamer Platz Berlin - Potsdamer Platz is an important square and traffic intersection in central Berlin. It is named after the nearby city of Potsdam. In the 1920s and '30s, it was one of the busiest traffic centers in all of Europe. Its heyday was in the 1920s, when with the Alexanderplatz it was at the heart of Berlin's nightlife ...

Rotes Rathaus Berlin - The Red Town Hall (Rotes Rathaus) on Rathausstrasse in the borough of Mitte, is the town hall of Berlin. It is the home to the governing mayor and the government of the state of Berlin. The name of the landmark building dates from the facade design with red clinker bricks ...

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