East Berlin street art and counterculture private walking tour

Overview

Discover the urban counterculture of Friedrichshain, once divided by the Berlin Wall and former East Berlin, now famous for its political art on a private guided walking tour. Follow your guide into Friedrichshain to exlore one of Berlin's most eclectic and interesting neighborhoods, steeped in historic political art, creative self-expression and punky rebel music.This immersive tour will take you beyond the typical tourist sites like Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie, into the city's lesser-known areas of Cold War subterfuge and dissent. On the banks of the Spree River, Friedrichshain's art installations include everything from concrete mixers and barbed wire to 1960s newsreels. Stroll Boxhagener Platz and Revaler Strasse to see Soviet-era buildings, GDR-era relics, the longest surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall, the East Side Gallery. During the tour you'll visit contemporary and underground art galleries, view urban sculpture, and guerilla gardens while soaking in the neighborhood's alternative, Bohemian vibe. See how the area of subterranean world of tunnels, storage rooms, air-raid shelters and deserted subway stations that once smuggled people East to West has been transformed into buildings cloaked in protest murals and rebel-rousing graffiti. Here the past lives on in clandestine kitsch cafes, funky bars and slogan-painted techno clubs in disused former Eastern Bloc warehouses. Attractions along this route: - East Side Gallery - Boxhagener Strasse - Oberbaumbrücke Bridge - RAW-Gelände

What's included

Private tour

What's Not included

Tips (optional)

Where

Berlin, Germany

Meeting point:

Meet your guide outside the The Burgermeister Schlesisches Tor. Please arrive 10 minutes before the start time of the tour.

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What To Expect

Explore the alternative urban street art scene of East Berlin and visit the largest remaining part of the Berlin Wall
Learn all about the history of former East Berlin from your private guide, life behind the Iron Curtain, and how it finally came down
Enter the East Side Gallery - stretching 1.3 km, it is the longest open-air gallery of history and art
Visit RAW, an offbeat sociocultural jumble of graffiti-covered subcultural compounds
Walk through Boxhagener Strasse, filled with art studios and graffiti-covered hip cafes

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