Things to see in Berlin
Berlin is the capital of Germany, with an urban population of about 3.4 million. Below are 20 notable places within about 7 km of the centre, ranked by how widely they are covered on Wikipedia.
1Brandenburg Gate History
The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany.
2Altes Museum Art
The Altes Museum is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. Built between 1825 and 1830 by order of King Frederick William III of Prussia according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, it is considered a major work of German Neoclassical architecture.
3Pergamon Museum Art
The Pergamon Museum is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. It was built from 1910 to 1930 by order of Emperor Wilhelm II and according to plans by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann in Stripped Classicism style.
4Fernsehturm Berlin History
The Fernsehturm in central Berlin was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the government of the German Democratic Republic as both a functional broadcasting facility and a symbol of communist power.
5Berlin Cathedral Place of worship
Berlin Cathedral, also known as the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church, is a monumental German Protestant church and dynastic tomb (House of Hohenzollern) at the Lustgarten on the Museum Island in central Berlin.
6Potsdamer Platz Neighbourhood
Potsdamer Platz is a public square and traffic intersection in the centre of Berlin, Germany, lying about 1 km (1,100 yd) south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag, and close to the southeast corner of the Tiergarten park.
7Alexanderplatz Neighbourhood
Alexanderplatz is a large public square and transport hub in the central Mitte district of Berlin.
8Führerbunker History
The Führerbunker was an air-raid shelter built and located near the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. It was part of a subterranean bunker-complex constructed in two phases in 1936 and 1944, and became the last of the Führer Headquarters used by Adolf Hitler during World War II.
9Berlin Zoological Garden Park
The Berlin Zoological Garden is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany. Opened in 1844, it covers 35 hectares (86.5 acres) and is located in Berlin's Tiergarten.
10Neues Museum Museum
The Neues Museum is a listed building on the Museum Island of Berlin. Built from 1843 to 1855 by order of King Frederick William IV of Prussia in Neoclassical and Renaissance Revival styles, it is considered as the major work of Friedrich August Stüler.
11Bode Museum Art
The Bode Museum, formerly called the Emperor Frederick Museum, is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. It was built from 1898 to 1904 by order of German Emperor William II according to plans by Ernst von Ihne in Baroque Revival style.
12Siegessäule History
The Victory Column is a monument in Berlin, Germany.
13Egyptian Museum of Berlin Art
The Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of Berlin is home to one of the world's most important collections of ancient Egyptian artefacts, including the Nefertiti Bust.
14Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe History
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold.
15Charlottenburg Palace Museum
Schloss Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg Palace) is a Baroque palace in Berlin, located in Charlottenburg, a district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough, and is among the largest palaces in the world.
16Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche Place of worship
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, mostly known simply as the Memorial Church is a Protestant church affiliated with the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia, a regional body of the Protestant Church in Germany.
17Gemäldegalerie Berlin Art
The Gemäldegalerie is an art museum in Berlin, Germany, and the museum where the main selection of paintings belonging to the Berlin State Museums (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) is displayed.
18Jewish Museum Berlin Museum
The Jewish Museum Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) was opened in 2001 and is the largest Jewish museum in Europe.
19Alte Nationalgalerie Art
The Alte Nationalgalerie is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany.
20Berlin State Opera Arts & culture
The Staatsoper Unter den Linden, also known as the Berlin State Opera, is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany.
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