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Enjoy a cold beer beneath the ancient chestnut trees.Visit the bunker where Adolf Hitler committed suicide on 30 April 1945 alongside Eva Braun, when Berlin was burning and Soviet tanks were advancing.Take a half-day walking tour and visit some of Berlin’s infamous third reich sites from Wilhelmstrasse to the former Prinz-Albrecht Strasse and the site of Hitler’s bunker.Berlin’s main contemporary art museum – Hamburger Bahnhof - is in an old railway station full of an Aladdin’s cave of paintings, installations, sculptures, and video art.Enjoy a cabaret evening at the intimate 1912 Bar Jeder Venunft – an art-nouveau mirrored tent that puts on song and dance shows, comedy and chanson evenings. 2 Berlin attractions and sightseeing See the Brandenburg Gate – a symbol of division during the Cold War – now a landmark that epitomises German reunification and often serves as a photogenic backdrop for festivals, concerts, and parties.Prater is Berlin’s oldest beer garden (since 1837) and has kept much of its traditional charm.Enjoy dinner, a self-guided palace tour and a concert. 1 Berlin attractions - optional Charlottenburg Palace dinner and show Don’t miss the city must-sees such as the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag Building, Checkpoint Charlie and the Berlin Wall Memorial – a football-field-sized memorial to the murdered European Jews.For a walking tour with a difference, head north of Berlin for a tour into the past at Sachsenhausen, one of the main concentration camps in Nazi Germany.The Pergamonmuseum is an aladdin’s cave of treasures and opens a fascinating window onto the ancient world and is the one museum in Berlin that should not be missed.Bargain hunt at the busy flea market – Flohmarkt am Mauerpark – right where the Belin Wall once ran.Settle in for an evening at the grandest of Berlin’s surviving nine former royal palaces - Charlottenburg Palace, set in a beautiful palace park.Zakopane is the winter capital of Poland with an Arts & Crafts flavour and a tradition of charming wooden architecture - stroll along Krupowki Street, one of the best-known Polish promenades. See Warsaw Rising at a beautiful modern museum housed in a restored redbrick power station that traces the city history through interaction, exhibits and displays. In the Old Town of Prague, wander through the Jewish Quarter and visit the cemetery, which dates to the 15th century. The Reichstag, with its glass dome created by Sir Norman Foster, is the quintessential example of Berlin’s mixture of old and new architecture.
From ‘East meets West’ in Poland and ancient meets modern in both Berlin and Prague, to magnificent medieval architecture in Krakow, and rustic folklore and traditions at Zakopane, this tour is an incredible journey through east and central Europe and saves the ‘best til last’ in Budapest with a memorable 20th century spa experience.Īncient architecture, fascinating folklore, charming traditions