The Berlin Wall cut through the city, splitting the city into 2 parts and dividing families. It's been 30 years since the reunification of Germany, but traces of the Wall, real and metaphorical, can be seen all across the city.  We'll discover some of them. 

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We'll start at Berlin’s main landmark  - the 

Brandenburger Gate, located right on the border between East and West Berlin.

 

Then, we'll proceed to Potsdamer Platz - now, a prime business location with high-rise office buildings, back then - an eery wasteland, the widest point of Berlin’s death strip.

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Our next stop is the Palace of Tears  - a museum at the Friedrichstraße train station, which served as a departure terminal for people crossing the border between East and West Berlin. 

 

The final destination is the Bernauer Strasse Wall Memorial, where we'll learn about underground tunnels, watchtowers, bricked windows, ghost train stations, and hear some stories of escapes.

 

We will need to use public transport to cover all these locations, and, after the tour, you can take a direct tram to the East Side Gallery - the longest remaining stretch of the Wall with its famous murals, commemorating the tragedy of partition and celebrating the reunification and freedom. 

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