If you use a phone with android as operating system i have three guides for your personal tour through Berlin.
Explore Berlin. A pulsating city with an impressive history.
For an introduction of the city i put the Top 10 Highlights to one tour. From the Third Reich, over the divided city and the cold war to the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany. All in one city. Berlin is really rich of landmarks of the history and the traces of the different chapters are visible. Find the past and get an impression how Berlin starts the 21st century.
POI: Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt), Reichstag, Soviet War Memorial, Brandenburg Gate, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Holocaust Memorial), Führer Bunker, The Wall, Topography of Terror, Checkpoint Charlie, Jewish Museum
Preview and download: Berlin Sightseeing – Top 10 Highlights
Two more guides:
Berlin – Street art, artworks in public space
Graffiti, Paintings, Paste-Ups, Stencils in the Berlin districts Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain
From the 70s to 1989 the Berlin Wall was on the west side the area for graffiti, paintings and wall newspapers. Since the reunification of Germany, Berlin has attracted attention to international street artists, making it one of Europe’s street art strongholds. Ramshackle buildings and blind walls gave rise to a vibrant street art scene. You will find works mainly while you stroll through the districts Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain.
While classical sights have an address street art often uses hidden spaces or rear sides of buildings. This guide will bring you along…
Preview and download: Berlin – Street art, artworks in public space
Berlin – Karl-Marx-Allee / Stalinallee
The Stalinallee was a flagship building project of East Germany to represent the new country.
The Karl-Marx-Allee is a monumental socialist boulevard built by the GDR between 1951 and 1964 in Berlin. The boulevard was named Stalinallee between 1949 and 1961, and was a flagship building project of East Germany’s reconstruction programme after World War II. It was designed by the architects Hermann Henselmann, Hartmann, Hopp, Leucht, Paulick and Souradny to contain spacious and luxurious apartments for plain workers, as well as shops, restaurants, cafés, a tourist hotel and an enormous cinema (the International). Today the boulevard is named after Karl Marx. The classical part of the boulevard with a length of around 2km (1.25 miles) is protected as biggest monument of Europe.
Preview and download: Berlin – Karl-Marx-Allee / Stalinallee
The price for one tour is 1,59 Euro or 1,99 US Dollar. Or get them all in the bundle: Berlin – an impressive history and a pulsating city Price: 3,99 US Dollar or 2,99 Euro.
The requirement is the free app ‘EveryTrail’. You can get on the android marketplace. While there is no direct link to apps in the marketplace. You have to search for ‘Everytrail’
All guides are available for phones with android and iphones.
Preview and download the guides on the website of EveryTrail or inside the app EveryTrail.
