Berlin Wall & "Cold War"
Duration: 4 hours with 5 stops
Meeting point: hotel / by agreement
Start: between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m.
End: hotel or downtown
Tour description:
From 1961 to 1989 there were 158 km of barriers around West Berlin. The Berlin Wall was initially barbed wire, then made of cement bricks and later built from prefabricated concrete segments. There isn't much left of that. We start with Berlin's most famous and 1.3 km largest graffiti, the East Side Gallery. Second stop is the official Berlin Wall Memorial in Bernauer Strasse. We will visit the exhibition "ghost stations". Afterwards we drive to the “Tränenpalast” (palace of tears), a steel and glass construction that has been used from 1962 to 1989 as border crossing, mainly for leaving the GDR towards West Berlin. At Brandenburg Gate we will get off the coach. This spot is an important symbol of the divided city of Berlin and German unity. At Potsdamer Platz we have still a watchtower standing and at the "Topography of Terror" are more remains of the Berlin Wall. We will have a short foto stop at the airlift memorial at Tempelhof airport, before we end our tour at Checkpoint Charlie, a historically very important place during the “Cold War”.
Stops:
East Side Gallery
Berlin Wall Memorial
"Palace of Tears"
Brandenburg Gate
Airlift Memorial
Checkpoint Charlie
