Itinerary · 4 days · 17 places
4 Days in Berlin
Four days in Berlin without the Brandenburg Gate: Neukölln and Rixdorf to settle in, the north-east with Weißensee and Prenzlauer Berg, the Spree riverside in Treptow and Kreuzberg, and finally the quiet hills and cemeteries on the western side of Kreuzberg.
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The plan, day by day
Day 1Settling into Neukölln & Rixdorf
Arrival in Berlin
Hotel check-in
Base yourself in the Reuterkiez in north Neukölln, a neighbourhood of period buildings between the Landwehr Canal and Sonnenallee, with cafés, late-night corner shops (Spätis) and a short walk to the U8.
Körnerpark
A park sunk into an old gravel pit in the style of a Baroque garden, with a cascade, an orangery and a gallery with a café beneath the arcades.
Richardplatz in Rixdorf
The village centre of Bohemian Rixdorf with its smithy, cobblestones and Bethlehem Church, still standing amid the sea of Neukölln's houses.
Tempelhofer Feld
The disused airfield of Tempelhof Airport, where today you walk along the runways with kites on one side and vegetable beds on the other.
Evening: Weserstraße
A street full of small pubs, wine bars and basement clubs that only really gets going after dark.
Day 2Weißensee & Prenzlauer Berg
Jewish Cemetery Weißensee
Europe's largest Jewish cemetery: 115,000 graves beneath ivy and old trees, interspersed with the mausoleums of Berlin's merchant families.
Zeiss Major Planetarium & Ernst-Thälmann-Park
The silver dome of the GDR planetarium stands in a prefab housing estate whose oversized bronze head of Thälmann gazes into space in the park next door.
Water tower at Knaackplatz
Berlin's oldest water tower, now a residential building, with a memorial plaque for the early SA prison in the engine house and a lawn with views over the rooftops.
Volkspark Friedrichshain & Fairy Tale Fountain
On the edge of the park stands the neo-Baroque fountain with fairy-tale figures, and behind it rises the Großer Bunkerberg, piled up from wartime rubble.
Evening: Kastanienallee
Pubs, Spätis and tram tracks on an avenue where in the evening you drift from door to door between the Prater beer garden and small bars.
Day 3Treptow riverside & the Kreuzberg canal
Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park
A 100-metre axis of red granite leads between stone flags to the soldier carrying a child and crushing a swastika — the grave of 7,000 Red Army soldiers.
Archenhold Observatory
Home to the world's longest movable refracting telescope, 21 metres long, built for the 1896 trade exhibition; in the observatory's lecture hall Einstein gave his first public Berlin lecture on the theory of relativity in 1915.
Insel der Jugend & Abteibrücke
A slender 1916 concrete arch bridge leads onto a small island in the Spree with a tower house, a riverside path and rowing boats for hire at the jetty in summer.
Schlesischer Busch watchtower
A surviving command tower of the GDR border troops in the middle of the park, from whose pulpit the death strip was monitored all the way to the Landwehr Canal.
Paul-Lincke-Ufer on the Landwehr Canal
A plane-shaded canalside path with houseboats, anglers and period façades, starting at Lohmühlenbrücke and heading towards Kottbusser Damm.
Evening: Admiralbrücke
In the evening people sit on the railings of this old canal bridge with beer and guitars while tour boats pass underneath.
Day 4Kreuzberg hills & departure
Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof
An enchanted cemetery in Schöneberg with the graves of the Brothers Grimm and Rio Reiser, a flower shop in the gatehouse and Café Finovo among the gravestones.
Viktoriapark & the National Monument on the Kreuzberg
An artificial waterfall tumbles down the slope at the foot of Schinkel's cast-iron monument; from the top you get the best unobstructed view north over the city.
Departure from Berlin
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