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Quedlinburg: Guided City Walk - Highlights tour

1. Quedlinburg: Guided City Walk - Highlights tour

Explore the unique world heritage in Quedlinburg. Our guide shows the most beautiful places in our historic old town and around castle hill. You'll experience and learn about 1.100 years of history. This two hour tour gives an perfect insight in Quedlinburgs rich history, our most famous buildings including town hall, churches and an selection of more than 2.000 timber framed houses. You'll start with our guide right in front of the tourist information centre on market square. Castle hill right next to our collegiate church is the end of the tour and you have the opportunity to visit our most famous sight.

Erfurt: Old Town Guided Walking Tour

2. Erfurt: Old Town Guided Walking Tour

Step into the past on this guided walking tour of the 1,270-year-old city of Erfurt's Old Town. Pass through the old quarter and pass by the Merchants’ Bridge, the 19th-century Town Hall, the University District, and townhouses that are steeped in tradition.  Meet your guide at the Denkmal Eulenspiegel sculpture and begin your walking tour. Admire the outside of the Cathedral of St. Mary with its 500-year-old "Gloriosa" bell, which is famous throughout the world for the beauty of its tone. Follow your guide down streets lined with wealthy patrician townhouses, half-timbered buildings, and a great many churches, which together make it a veritable picture-book of German history. End your guided walk with a deeper appreciation for the town, its architecture, and its history. 

Quedlinburg: evening walk in a costum

3. Quedlinburg: evening walk in a costum

Our historical figures take you an a journey into medieval times. The nights watchmen played an important role for fire protection and general safety in Quedlinburg. You'll enjoy hearing his song or poem. The Stiftshauptmann had a hard job defending the ladies covenant on castle hill against intruders and the people of the town. Times weren't always peacefully. On our tour you'll experience first hand about those conflicts. All of our historical figures have different stories about their life and role in Quedlinburg to tell. Explore with them their way through the medieval town. You'll start with our guide right in front of the tourist information centre ("Quedlinburg-Information") on market square. The end of the tour varies depending on the personal choice of your guide, but will mainly be in the historical town centre.

Berlin: Sachsenhausen Memorial Guided Tour

4. Berlin: Sachsenhausen Memorial Guided Tour

Experience Berlin's somber history on a guided walking tour of Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Get a detailed insight into one of Nazi Germany's most significant concentration camps and get an unparalleled look into the human spirit's resilience through the decades. Begin your exploration at the heart of Berlin. As you step into the Sachsenhausen grounds, sense the weight of history, and the silence speaks volumes about the camp's significance. Hear local experts bring stories to life, emphasizing Berlin's transformation and the world's progress since those dark times. Discover the intricate details of the camp's infrastructure, from the somber punishment cells to the looming guard towers. Witness the camp's harsh realities, contrasting with stories of unexpected kindness, resistance, and survival at the “pit”. See the exception grounds to learn about the camp's operations and the mechanisms behind the grim daily routines. Dive deep into the narratives of the people who lived through the camp's existence, offering a poignant human touch to this significant historical site. As you traverse the site, learn not just stories of horrors but of hope, defiance, and endurance. Gain an understanding of Berlin’s past and its impact on the present with each narrative, whether of tragedy or triumph. After spending a significant amount of time walking through the camp, take a moment for introspection. Reflect on the everyday life of the inmates, their struggles, and the harsh conditions they endured. As the tour draws to a close, journey back to the vibrant heart of Berlin, a stark contrast to the solemnity of Sachsenhausen, reminding you of Berlin's journey from its dark past to its bright future.

Berlin: Vagabund Brauerei Beer Tasting & Guided Brewery Tour

5. Berlin: Vagabund Brauerei Beer Tasting & Guided Brewery Tour

Take a guided tour of Vagabund Brauerei, a 100-year-old boiler house that has been converted into a brewery in Berlin. Step into the historic Osram Höfe, learn how beer is made, find out the best way to taste beer, and toast to 5 craft beers. Start your tour on the Vagabund brewing floor, a former boiler house that was recently converted into a brewery. Have all your burning beer questions answered by experts as they take you through the entire brewing process, along with its history. See towering stainless steel tanks capable of brewing 4,500 liters of Vagabund beer per batch. Next, head down to the bar and try some beer. Choose 5 of 16 beers on tap, ranging from Vagabund beers to the best local brews from all over Berlin.

Berlin: 20th-Century History VR Walking Tour with Guide

6. Berlin: 20th-Century History VR Walking Tour with Guide

Set off on a journey through the history of Berlin throughout the 20th century. Discover the past and present of the city at 9 different locations with the help of a mobile virtual reality headset and guide. Experience a 360° view of the city's most important locations and see which buildings typical of the time are still standing. Meet your guide and get your mobile VR glasses set up. Prussian Berlin and the Golden Twenties with their legendary movie theaters will come to life before your eyes. See the monumental buildings of the Nazi dictatorship and stand in the midst of the ruins of 1945. Experience the feeling of standing in the border strip of divided Berlin and being there live during the fall of the Wall in 1989 thanks to mobile VR glasses. Get a unique insight into the different eras and discover what you can still see and feel today all alongside a guide. Along the way, visit Potsdamer Platz, Brandenburg Gate, TimeRide Berlin, Pariser Platz, and the Holocaust Memorial. Learn about how Berlin moved to the center of world politics and became a symbol of division and reunification.

Berlin Jewish Quarter and Holocaust Private Walking Tour

7. Berlin Jewish Quarter and Holocaust Private Walking Tour

Before World War II, 173,000 Jews lived in Berlin, but only 9,000 survived the Holocaust. This tour is your chance to learn about the turbulent history of Jewish people in Germany, from the Middle Ages, through the Third Reich, to the present day. Discover the traces of Berlin’s vanished Jewish Quarter, its Jewish monuments and Holocaust memorials with an Expert-Guide. Experience Jewish Berlin! Book a 3-hour private tour of Berlin’s Old Jewish Quarter. The tour will start near the touching Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which commemorates the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Your Expert Guide will tell you in detail about this dark history, sharing historical facts and personal stories of people who were sent to the Nazi concentration camps, including many Jewish children who are commemorated by the Trains to Life – Trains to Death memorial. As you head to the former Jewish Quarter, you will see the New Synagogue, which is one of the few synagogues to survive Kristallnacht.the Memorial Jewish Cemetery, which stands at a former Jewish burial ground desecrated by Nazis, and a large number of the bronze Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stones), that commemorate the Holocaust victims who lived in this area. You will also walk around Hackesche Höfe, a complex of interlinked Jugendstil courtyards where you can learn about daily life of Jewish Berliners before World War II Book an extended 4-hour private tour of Berlin’s Old Jewish Quarter to visit the New Synagogue. This historic Moorish Revival building has been the center of Berlin’s Jewish life since 1866, hosting prayers, concerts and lectures even at times when Jewish people were banned from other venues. Your Expert Guide will show you the beautiful synagogue inside and out, and tell you about all the important events and people associated with this Jewish heritage site. Experience living history! Book an extended 5-hour private tour of Berlin’s Old Jewish Quarter to visit the New Synagogue and Jewish Cemetery. The second oldest Jewish Cemetery in Berlin is located at Schönhauser Allee. It is home to h tombs of well-known community members, such as Max Liebermann, James Dimon, Gerson von Bleichröder, Solomon Haberland and Giacomo Meyerbeer, making it an ideal place to hear more personal stories of Jewish Berliners.

Berlin: Jewish History Walking Tour with Historian

8. Berlin: Jewish History Walking Tour with Historian

Although the Jewish experience in Berlin began in the 13th century, intolerance was so entrenched that it took hundreds of years, until 1714, before Berlin’s first synagogue was erected in Heidereutgasse. Your walk begins at the remaining foundations of the so-called Old Synagogue, where your guide, a Jewish Studies scholar, helps you to grasp the challenges faced by German Jews during the middle ages and renaissance and to appreciate the rich cultural life developed by Berlin’ s Jewish community in spite of their vulnerable status. The major focus, however, will be the main sites of Berlin’s 19th- and 20th-century Jewish history, the districts of Spandauer Vorstadt and Scheunenviertel (known as the 'Barn Quarter') in Berlin-Mitte. Taking in the graceful avenue, Oranienburger Straße, where the magnificent New Synagogue was erected in 1866, you learn not only of the conflicts between German Jews and Non-Jews but of tensions between the mostly assimilated German Jewry and the so-called Eastern Jews (Ostjuden) who filled Berlin in the 1920s after fleeing dramatic anti-Jewish violence in their homelands. Many of these refugees were orthodox and poor. They brought a completely new infrastructure for Jewish religious and cultural life to Berlin with them. Examining visual material such as photographs from Jewish street vendors and old newspapers, you consider how Jewish life in Berlin became far more visible in the 1920s. For precisely this reason, the established German Jewish community often regarded the influx of Eastern Jews as potentially dangerous for their own status within German society. One response was their support for institutions of social welfare and education. Stop at an example of this philanthropy, the former Jewish orphanage in Auguststraße, which today is home to an exhibit hall and a coffee shop. (If the current exhibition is dealing with a topic related to the tour, a visit of the exhibition should be taken into consideration.). The Jewish Cemetery on Große Hamburger Straße also gives a vivid impression of Berlin’ s Jewish presence. Assimilated Jews in Berlin played leading roles in every field of German culture: journalism, education, science, literature, art, music, business. During the short, anxious Weimar era (1919-1933), the great painter Max Liebermann created his works and became head of the Berlin Secessionists. Kurt Weill redefined musical theater. Walter Benjamin penned the whimsical academic essays that inaugurated a philosophy of modernity. Despite the prominence of such figures, anti-Semitic violence of a new degree broke out as early as November 1923. In front of the former Labor Office in Gormannstraße, talk about the so-called Scheunenviertel Pogrom. By 1933, the ‘ Barn Quarter’ became one of the first settings of the Nazis’ political purges in the capital city. You discuss the series of sinister events that lead to full implementation of Hitler’ s “Final Solution” in Berlin while visiting sites that recall the Holocaust, such as the Missing House graphic at Grosse Hamburger Strasse 15/16, which lists the names of former Jewish residents and the Abandoned Room at Koppenplatz, which memorializes the Jews taken on the November 1938 Kristallnacht, and some of the city’ s 1,400 Stolpersteine (stumbling cobblestones), reminders of the Shoah’ s victims. Before leaving the Barn Quarter, visit the kosher coffee shop Beth-Café to consider the renewal of Berlin’ s Jewish life today. The last stop is the New Synagogue, the architecture of which symbolized and celebrated Jewish assimilation in Germany. It is thus one of the most moving sites on your walk. Today it is home to the Jewish community reviving in Berlin, and moreover houses a gallery with changing exhibitions that you may wish to visit in conclusion.

Berlin: History of Crime Walking Tour

9. Berlin: History of Crime Walking Tour

Dive into the underbelly of Berlin's past as you discover its history of crime on this walking tour. Delve into stories about gangs, political murders, and facinating scandals.   Hear about how Chicago gangs dominated the Berlin entertainment industry in the 1920s. Get details on the underworld's involvement in protection rackets, drug trafficking, kidnappings and prostitution. Learn about how the infamous Glasgow gang terrified the whole of Berlin in the post-war period and hear about the Safe Breakers. Listen as your guide tells you the story behind the gang fight at the Silesian train station. Immerse yourself in the terror at Bülowplatz where the later head of the Ministry for State Security, Erich Mielke, was involved in a political murder. See the former location of the massive Berlin police headquarters and find out how the police won world acclaim through Ernst Gennat.  Finish your tour at the Rotes Rathaus where you can hear the tale of a financial scandal in the 1920s which involved the mayor. 

Magdeburg: Whatsapp Murder Mystery Interactive City Tour

10. Magdeburg: Whatsapp Murder Mystery Interactive City Tour

Solve a murder and at the same time see all the highlights of the city center of Magdeburg. Play this unique game with a group of friends or your family. You will receive instructions, a photo frame and an answer form in advance via email. You'll also receive a map of the city where the murder took place. The center is divided into sections where you have to look for a location where you can take a group selfie. Once you've located the spot, send a selfie via WhatsApp to your game instructor. If the location's correct, they'll send you the next clue about the murder. As you walk along the nicest places in the centre of the city, you will collect more and more clues about the murder. During the game you will have enough time to enter a cafe or shop that you pass and to admire some of the highlights of Magdeburg.

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Loved it!!! The guide was very knowledgeable, fun and welcoming! His knowledge of Berlin history and his anecdotes made the whole experience truly fascinating and light. He also took the time answering questions and having a quick chat on recommendations for the rest of our trip. The tour was well organised, not too long, not too short... just perfect. It took us to so many famous sites, and we got to see parts of Berlin we never would have seen. We have taken two trails (red and blue) and we have been impressed both times. Totally recommended!

It was very easy to find the meet up spot since the guides were wearing lanyards and there was a tour sign. Johnny was an attentive and knowledgeable guide for our trip to Potsdam. He made sure everyone had the right train ticket, knew where to go, and was available for any questions. He had many photos printed to help support his stories. Definitely recommend! My tour was about 4 hours round trip from Berlin (10am to around 2pm).

Interesting experience. Get to know all the process on how to beer was prepared, taste some different ones and had the opportunity to taste some more afterwards on the bar. Also the warm welcoming of all the staff made the experience very enjoyable. Really nice atmosphere, planning to go back to enjoy some more beers!

Super knowledgeable guide who walked us through the brewer's history, how beer is made and answered all the follow-up questions. All of that on top of the welcome beer and 5 tasting beers. If you are going in winter, recommend dressing as warm as possible, it was quite cold inside. Otherwise highly recommend!

Knowledgeable tour guide, great service and good communication. The only thing worth pointing out is that the brewery was very cold, so make sure to wear warm clothes. Would recommend to everyone who's interested in beers and how to make beer.