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Todo in Berlin

‎*list provided by an old friend. Real Berlin enthusiast and frequent traveller… Historical

• Reichstag – German Parliament – you can go into the Huge glass dome at the top
• Brandenburger Tor – the Brandenburg Gate which is like the Arc de Triumph etc.
• Museum insel – Museum Island  – island that has lots of Museums on it  – the most famous of which is the Pergamon Museum which has the pergamon gate and one of the small gates from Babylon
• Checkpoint  Charlie – museum showing what was one of the most famous wall crossing points. Shows some of the escape attempts
• Stasi Museum and Stasi Remand Prison – the East German secret police headquarters and remand Prison
• Topographie des Terrors – the remains of the old Gestapo headquarters showing how things were like under the Nazis
• The Bunker at anhalter banhof  – an old air raid shelter which has a bit of history from the Nazi era (I’ve been told there is not only that. I highly encourage you to do your own research if you’re interested)
• Soviet War memorial at Teptower Park – Massive Soviet war memorial
• Zitadelle Spandau – Renaissance castle
• Charlottenburg Palace – one of the last surviving original palaces.
• Berliner Dom – Berlin Cathedral
• Bust of Neferititi – might be in the altes musuem or the neues museum – you will need to check,
• Techinical Musuem – has a copy of one of the first computers – before Turings colossus.
• Spy Museum on Leopold Platz (Near Potsdamer platz) –  the history of spying and some of the tools of the trade during the cold war (including the lipstick guns, miniature cameras and a copy of the umbrella used to assassinate a dissident in London)

Eating entertainment

• Hackescher markt and Oranienburger strasse for nightlife.
• Berlin Philharmonic  – the best in the world pretty much.
• Ritter Sport Buntes schocowelt – the Ritter Sport Cafe – huge selection of Ritter sports
• Fernseturm – the large TV tower in Alexanderplatz which was once the highest(or 2nd highest) building in Europe which has a revolving restaurant at the top

Shopping

• Kaufhaus des Westens (aka Ka De We)  –  German equivalent of Harrods.
• Kurfursten Dam – looking for a Bentley, Jimmy Choo, Chanel etc…..?

Environmental

• Tiergarten – large garden in City Centre
• Various river tours on the Spree
• Zoo & aquarium – one of the largest in terms of species (was the second biggest before the war) in the city Centre
• Tegler See (large lake with boats one called “Moby Dick” that looks like a whale)
• Grunewald – Large green forest