Insider Tour Berlin has been pioneering cutting-edge English-language walking tours of Berlin
since 1996. Our internationally renowned Berlin sightseeing tours
take you to all the main sites (and some lesser-known ones!) with
guides who supply a gripping narrative on this city's history,
character and contemporary state.
Our highly acclaimed and professional Berlin tour guides deliver well-informed and
riveting accounts of the stories behind Berlin's turbulent history -
from its very origins as a pagan fishing village, through to the
opulent Prussian and Bismarck eras, taking in the first World War,
the Weimar era, Third Reich Berlin, WWII, Cold War Berlin, the fall
of the Wall, finally culminating in the forming of this trendy,
transparent, alternative and optimistic capital of the new Germany.
Insider Tour Berlin also conducts specialised walking tours on
Battlefield Berlin, Berlin's Third Reich & Cold War history,
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial Site,
Contemporary/Alternative Berlin and of course Potsdam, the Prussian
town just outside the city.
Insider Tour Berlin has been pioneering cutting-edge English-language walking tours of Berlin
since 1996. Our internationally renowned Berlin sightseeing tours
take you to all the main sites (and some lesser-known ones!) with
guides who supply a gripping narrative on this city's history,
character and contemporary state.
Our highly acclaimed and professional Berlin tour guides deliver well-informed and
riveting accounts of the stories behind Berlin's turbulent history -
from its very origins as a pagan fishing village, through to the
opulent Prussian and Bismarck eras, taking in the first World War,
the Weimar era, Third Reich Berlin, WWII, Cold War Berlin, the fall
of the Wall, finally culminating in the forming of this trendy,
transparent, alternative and optimistic capital of the new Germany.
Insider Tour Berlin also conducts specialised walking tours on
Battlefield Berlin, Berlin's Third Reich & Cold War history,
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial Site,
Contemporary/Alternative Berlin and of course Potsdam, the Prussian
town just outside the city.
Insider's Dresden tour has
continually gained in popularity since its inception in 2007. Join us
any Wednesday or Sunday during the high season to visit the 'Florence
of the Elbe'.
Our expert native
English-speaking guides can also lead you through Berlin's plethora
of museums and galleries, including the Pergamon Museum, Berlin's
Neue and Alte Museums, the Bode Museum and the National Gallery to
name but a few. As long-term residents, Insider guides give visitors
a true feel for contemporary Berlin with our neighbourhoods tour.
Here you will be exposed to alternative Berlin in all its diversity
and intricacy. Guided private tours in English can also be provided
for individuals as well as educational, social, corporate and
institutional groups on any specialised subject. We look forward to
welcoming you to Berlin!
Insider Tour Berlin
was chosen to help compile the History Channel's 'Berlin Wall' and
National Geographic's recent 'Fortress Berlin' documentaries.
The
Berlin Wall is a complicated aspect of history, but our Cold War tour
tackles the subject with vigour! This introduction to a History
Channel educational film gives you an idea of our work:
"The
official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists”
from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but
it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from
East to West. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the
head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of
the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night,
ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West
Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away
at the wall itself. To this day, the Berlin Wall remains one of the
most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War." History
Channel Cold War with Insider Tour Berlin
Insider also helped with the making of National Geographic's
recent 'Nazi Megastructures' documentary, featuring in the episode
'Fortress Berlin':
"In the last desperate days of the Third
Reich, the city of Berlin was turned into a citadel to protect
Hitler. The last line of defence? An underground fortress surrounded
by 4-metre thick concrete." National
Geographic Fortress Berlin with Insider Tour Berlin
Berlin is a pivotal location when it comes to understanding the
Second World War. Through both our Third Reich and Sachsenhausen
Concentration Camp Memorial tours we take on the imperative challenge
of understanding and presenting this dark chapter in German history.
To balance out all
that dark history we visit Potsdam, Prussia's wonderland, twice a
week, taking visitors to the 'old town', Sanssouci palace and
gardens, the Church of Peace, Cecilienhof, the Gleinicke spy-swapping
bridge, to name but a few sites. This is a grand trip through
Prussian history, where the landscape and gardens of Potsdam inspired
Voltaire and 'Friedrich the Great'.
It is now almost 25 years
since the fall of the Wall and so we have created the Berlin Today
tour which chronicles the changes in this new capital since 1989.
This is the tour to take if you want to get your finger on the pulse
of modern-day Berlin. We explore the clash between communism and
capitalism, out of which there grew an eclectic culture which
continues to influence modern Europe. This tour explores the
alternative scene, population migrations, gentrification, and the
modernisation of a city which was not able to realise its potential
over the last 100 years.
Insider Tour Berlin is
truly proud of its outstanding team of individual guides. Each guide
delivers brilliantly constructed tours drawing on his or her own
expertise, invariably leaving guests intrigued and wanting more. With
over 18 years of experience and hundreds of thousands of visitors we
have become the benchmark of touring excellence.
Our ethos is to
provide you with the BEST - for us that means: engaging, non-scripted
tours, a dynamic historical narrative, insights that only a team of
specialists could deliver, tour routes that encompass hidden and
unique sites (which others simply pass by) as well as all major and
integral sites... in short, nothing less than a top travel
experience, the highlight of your visit to Berlin!
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