The megalomania of the National Socialists showed exemplary in the planning to rebuild Berlin into the “World Capital Germania”. Albert Speer, the “architect of the Führer” planned the layout of an enormous axis of coordinates to reform the metropolis. Regardless of grown neighbourhoods, a new axis was to be pressed through the town, lined by giant government buildings like the “Big Hall” with the capacity of holding up to 180.000 people. We will follow the traces of this plan remaining only as a fragment on this city tour.

The Berlin Museum Island is one of the most famous museum ensembles of the world. In this city sightseeing tour the exhibitions will not only be visited from inside, but also their buildings will be part of our tour. Architecture, urban planning and the history of collections form a unique symbiosis. Due to the Old and New Museum, the Old National Gallery, the Bode Museum and the Pergamon Museum nearly 140 years of the German museum development can be followed in their steps.

After strong controversies the move of the government from Bonn to Berlin was decided in 1991. This was the prelude for a new urbanistic era of Berlin as a capital of the reunified Germany. This architectonic city tour will begin at the new central station and will then take you into the government district with the Reichstag building, the Federal Chancellery and the buildings of the Federal Administration. Crossing the Pariser Platz it goes on to the Wilhelmsstraße to visit chosen Ministries.