Mid-range · 6-hour walk · Berlin
The Reichstag, the Tiergarten and the Kulturforum in six hours
The glass dome over the parliament, the chancellery, the city's great park, the Victory Column and the old masters of the Gemäldegalerie.
The Tiergarten was the electors' hunting ground and is now Berlin's central park, with the government quarter at its north-east corner. This route goes up into Norman Foster's dome over the Reichstag first (free, but register online days ahead), crosses the park to the Victory Column, and finishes at the Kulturforum, West Berlin's answer to Museum Island.
The route, stop by stop
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Reichstag dome
Norman Foster's glass dome over the parliament chamber, with a spiral ramp to the top. Free; register online in advance and bring ID.
60 min here Walk here → -
Federal Chancellery
The chancellor's office, nicknamed the washing machine for its cube with a round window.
10 min here Walk here → -
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
The congress hall the United States gave Berlin in 1957, nicknamed the pregnant oyster for its curved roof.
15 min here Walk here → -
Victory Column
The column celebrating Prussia's victories of the 1860s and 1870s, moved here in 1939. 285 steps lead up to the platform under the gilded Victoria.
30 min here Walk here → -
Neue Nationalgalerie
Mies van der Rohe's temple of glass and steel, finished in 1968, holding 20th-century art.
60 min here Walk here → -
Gemäldegalerie
One of the world's great collections of European painting from the 13th to the 18th century: Caravaggio, Vermeer, Rembrandt and Bruegel's Netherlandish Proverbs.
90 min here Walk here →
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