Visit Berlin with children: the five places you can not miss
When it comes to thinking about a family getaway, the places to visit are endless both in Spain and abroad. One of the cities that often appears in our mind is the Germany's capital. Berlin is a great city to walk around, see its monuments and learn a loton the important historical facts that happened there.
Berlin is a cosmopolitan city with a special air that will delight big and small. To the adults, because they will be able to observe those places they saw so many times in the news not so many years ago, and the children, because they will learn valuable lessons that history has left us.
These are the places you can not miss If you make a family getaway in this beautiful and cold German city on vacation. Do not miss them or forget to take the opportunity to tell your children the important story they contain.
What to visit in Berlin with children and family
1.- Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) It is one of the old entrance gates to Berlin, in addition to one of the most important symbols of the city. In Spanish the most correct name is Brandenburg Gate, although it is also known as the Brandenburg Gate or Brandenburg.
Inaugurated in 1791 next to the Pariser Platz, the Brandenburg Gate is a symbol of the triumph of peace over weapons.
It is a huge construction of 26 meters high, with its neoclassical style, reminiscent of the buildings of the Acropolis of Athens.
2.- Berlin Wall
The construction of Berlin Wall and, especially its fall, have been part of the most important moments in the history of the twentieth century. This wall divided Berlin into two parts for 28 years, separating families and friends and a whole world.
The most important part that has remained standing is in the area known as the East Side Gallery. There you can go 1.3 kilometers from the wall decorated with impressive paintings that reflect a multitude of events related to the wall.
In the exhibition called Topography of Terror, located next to Checkpoint Charlie, you can also find important remains of the wall.
3.- Berlin Cathedral
The Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) It rises majestically in the vicinity of the Spree River, surmounted by a greenish copper dome.
It is the most representative religious building in Berlin, located opposite the Lustgarten garden, between the Museum Island and the site formerly occupied by the Imperial Palace.
4.- Berliner Unterwelten
When the German decline in the World War II, Hitler began the construction of bunkers in the main cities, especially in Berlin. It was in the Cold War when this Tunnel and bunker system It acquired special importance and, in some cases, was improved and prepared for a possible conflict.
Today, these tunnels can be visited in shocking guided tours in several languages (including Spanish). Going through the subsoil, you can learn how the bunkers were used during the war, who used them and how many people got into them during the last days of conflict, as well as interesting and overwhelming stories that happened between their concrete walls.
5.- Monument to the Holocaust
To conclude this small selection, you can not miss the monument to the Holocaust, built in the vicinity of the Brandenburg Gate between the years 2003 and 2005. It is a construction in memory of the millions of Jews murdered in Europe.
It is a grid formed by 2,711 concrete blocks of different heights, which allows visitors to choose your way in and out. From the southeast of the monument, you can access an underground space in which the information center is located.
