Free tour

Free Tour Berlin Essential: a complicated history

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Berlin

Duration: 3 hours

Languages: English and Spanish

Guru: Vive Buenos Aires

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Registered on 24 August 2020

Hi there! We’re a group of passionate Buenos Aires–based guides with over 30 years of combined experience leading free walking tours around the world. After years of showing travelers cities across different continents, we’ve come together to share the one we all call home — Buenos Aires — from our own unique perspectives. Our goal? To make the city’s stories come alive. To help you feel the history in its streets, its people, its sounds, and its contradictions. From politics to tango, from architecture to football, from literature to nightlife — Buenos Aires has it all. And we want to walk you through it, not just to explain the past, but to understand the pulse of today’s Argentina. This city is alive, unpredictable, and endlessly fascinating. Join us on a journey through its myths, revolutions, passions, and dreams — and see why Buenos Aires is anything but boring. Come walk with us. Let’s make sense of the chaos together.

Free reservation and cancellation

Pay-what-you-want tour, no set price, reservation and cancellation are free

Tour description

Everything you need to see and know in 3 hours! On this tour we will talk and learn about the fascinating history of the German Capital. From the construction of the Brandenburg Gate to the fall of the wall. Imperial Berlin , the 1st World War , the golden 1920s, the tragedy of Nazism , the occupation of Berlin and how its division led to the construction of the wall and the city split in two. "The history of the 20th century was written with the ruins of Berlin". How and why Berlin is today one of the best cities in the world to live (and one of the most fun).
During the tour we will see:

The Brandenburg gate
The memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe,
The site of the former chancellery and Hitler's bunker
A piece of the Berlin wall
Checkpoint Charlie,
The memorial to the books burned by Nazism
The State Opera.

Useful information for the traveler:
Ending on Unter den Linden, the Royal boulevard, a 10-minute walk from the Brandenburg Gate and a 10-minute walk from Museum Island, right in the heart of the city.

Highlights

What will we see on this tour?

Meeting point:

Pariser Platz 6a 10117 Berlin Germany

At the entrance to the Academy of Arts (akademie der künste), opposite the Brandenburg Gate. I have a very recognizable mustache

How much does this tour cost?

Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end the amount they consider appropriate (amounts usually range from €15 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).