The Original Insider Tour Berlin

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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