Must-see attractions in Berlin & Brandenburg

  • Belvedere auf dem Klausberg

    Potsdam

    Frederick the Great's final building project was this temple-like belvedere, modelled on Nero's palace in Rome. The panorama of park, lakes and Potsdam is…

  • Pink Man Mural

    Kreuzberg

    Italian artist Blu created this house-sized mural that depicts a creature composed of hundreds of writhing pink bodies. Note the lone white guy crouched…

  • Boulevard der Stars

    Boulevard der Stars

    Berlin

    Berlin's own version of Hollywood's Walk of Fame features 101 (and counting) brass stars embedded in a red-asphalt 'carpet' along Potsdamer Strasse. They…

  • Tetes et Queue sculpture by Alexander Calder, outside New National Gallery (Neue Nationalgalerie).

    Neue Nationalgalerie

    Berlin

    The fabulous collection of early-20th-century art housed at the Neue Nationalgalerie is off view until renovations of the gallery, led by architect David…

  • Schloss Bellevue, Historic Building

    Schloss Bellevue

    Berlin

    While in office, the German president makes his or her temporary home in this snowy white neoclassical palace on the edge of the Tiergarten. Built in 1785…

  • Berlin 2021: Marlene Dietrich honorary grave of the state of Berlin. The inscription reads "Hier steh ich an den Marken meiner Tage" (literally: "Here I am standing at the border stones of my days")

    Marlene Dietrich Grave

    Berlin

    Germany's first actress to hit the big time in Hollywood, Marlene Dietrich was born in Schöneberg in 1901. In 1992 the 'Blue Angel' moved into her final…

  • Gelandet Sculpture

    Gelandet Sculpture

    Berlin

    Crane your neck to spot Auke de Vries's Gelandet (Landed, 2002), a dronelike iron sculpture teetering on the edge of the roof of the Daimler Services…

  • Boxers Sculpture, Sculpture

    Boxers Sculpture

    Berlin

    This 1987 sculpture by the American artist Keith Haring shows two cut-steel stick figures – one blue, one red – seemingly punching each other out. Or are…

  • Galileo Sculpture, Sculpture

    Galileo Sculpture

    Berlin

    In the middle of a pond is Mark Di Suvero's Galileo, an abstract jumble of rusted steel T-beams assembled into a gravity-defying sculpture.

  • Pfefferberg

    Prenzlauer Berg

    This rambling listed brewery compound has been adapted to house cultural venues, resto-bars, a hostel and offices. Beer production resumed in 2013 with…

  • Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark

    Prenzlauer Berg

    Behind a short segment of the Berlin Wall (now an officially sanctioned practice ground for graffiti artists) loom the floodlights of the Friedrich-Ludwig…

  • Friedhof der Märzgefallenen

    Friedrichshain

    In a quiet corner of the Volkspark Friedrichshain, this cemetery is the final resting place of the victims of the revolutionary riots in March 1848, as…

  • Mont Klamott

    Friedrichshain

    Officially called Grosser Bunkerberg (Large Bunker Mountain), Mont Klamott is the taller of two 'mountains' created from piled-up wartime debris in…

  • Jugendfarm Moritzhof

    Prenzlauer Berg

    This educational farm playground for kids offers interaction with barnyard animals and courses in basket-weaving, forging, felting and other old-timey…

  • Weltbrunnen

    City West & Charlottenburg

    Everyone from foot-sore tourists to buskers and skateboarding teens gathers around the quirky Weltbrunnen, a 1983 creation of local artist Joachim…

  • Denkmal der Spanienkämpfer

    Friedrichshain

    Created by Fritz Cremer between 1966 and 1968, this monumental sculpture pays respect to the 2000 to 3000 Germans who died fighting fascism in the Spanish…

  • Grenzwachturm Schlesischer Busch

    Kreuzberg

    East German border guards, machine guns at the ready, used to keep an eye on the Berlin Wall and the infamous ‘death strip’ from this square concrete…

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