From Baroque Through To Modern Architecture:
"In no other European city are the future and the past so closely intertwined. Architects from around the world are developing the city of the future. The charm of Berlin comes just as much from its ancient architecture dating back to the times of the Hohenzollerns as from its modern buildings."
9.30 am
Collection from the hotel by an air-conditioned luxury coach with a knowledgeable city guide.
If the weather is good, walk along the boulevard Unter den Linden to the Bebelplatz, the Humboldt University and the Unter den Linden State Opera, and then to the German History Museum – the oldest Baroque building in Berlin with its ultra-modern Pei Building.
In bad weather the journey can take place by coach if preferred.
Approx. 10 am
Visit to the History Museum’s Baroque building and the Pei Building.
Approx. 10.30 am
By coach to the Martin Gropius Building in Neo-Renaissance style, then to Sharoun’s Philharmonie and Mies van der Rohe’s New National Gallery, and then to Emil Fahrenkamps' Shell Haus, past the Bauhaus Archive and the Nordic Embassies.
Drive through the Hansa district with buildings by architects from the 50’s
(Oskar Niemeyer, Fritz Jaenecke, Sten Samuelsen, etc).
Then to Charlottenburg Castle, Kant Dreieck, Ludwig Erhard House, Kurfürstendamm, Urania Berlin and back to Potsdamer Platz and the Sony Centre.
Approx.12.45 pm
Lunch at the Potsdamer Platz in the famous Weinhaus Huth, French menu
2.30 pm
Leave Potsdamer Platz
3 pm
Extraordinary and highly impressive architectural tour of the Jewish Museum lasting 60 minutes.
Approx. 4.30 pm
Drive along Friedrichstrasse, via Charité University Clinic and the New Berlin Central Station Lehrter Bahnhof to the Federal Chancellor’s Office and the government quarter.
Approx.5.30 pm
Return to the hotel
We are able to offer this tour in numerous languages and can also concentrate on particular parts of the tour if a whole day should seem too long.
Collection from the hotel by an air-conditioned luxury coach with a knowledgeable city guide.
If the weather is good, walk along the boulevard Unter den Linden to the Bebelplatz, the Humboldt University and the Unter den Linden State Opera, and then to the German History Museum – the oldest Baroque building in Berlin with its ultra-modern Pei Building.
In bad weather the journey can take place by coach if preferred.
Approx. 10 am
Visit to the History Museum’s Baroque building and the Pei Building.
Approx. 10.30 am
By coach to the Martin Gropius Building in Neo-Renaissance style, then to Sharoun’s Philharmonie and Mies van der Rohe’s New National Gallery, and then to Emil Fahrenkamps' Shell Haus, past the Bauhaus Archive and the Nordic Embassies.
Drive through the Hansa district with buildings by architects from the 50’s
(Oskar Niemeyer, Fritz Jaenecke, Sten Samuelsen, etc).
Then to Charlottenburg Castle, Kant Dreieck, Ludwig Erhard House, Kurfürstendamm, Urania Berlin and back to Potsdamer Platz and the Sony Centre.
Approx.12.45 pm
Lunch at the Potsdamer Platz in the famous Weinhaus Huth, French menu
2.30 pm
Leave Potsdamer Platz
3 pm
Extraordinary and highly impressive architectural tour of the Jewish Museum lasting 60 minutes.
Approx. 4.30 pm
Drive along Friedrichstrasse, via Charité University Clinic and the New Berlin Central Station Lehrter Bahnhof to the Federal Chancellor’s Office and the government quarter.
Approx.5.30 pm
Return to the hotel
We are able to offer this tour in numerous languages and can also concentrate on particular parts of the tour if a whole day should seem too long.