About this tour
Kreuzberg is Berlin's beating heart of counterculture, and it has been for half a century. Once a forgotten corner of West Berlin pressed against the Wall, it became a haven for punks who needed cheap rent, Turkish immigrants who built a community from nothing, squatters who turned abandoned hospitals into art galleries, and DJs who invented techno in empty railway halls. Today, its streets are an open-air gallery of murals and graffiti covering entire building facades, its cafés serve the best döner kebab outside Istanbul (invented HERE in Berlin, not Turkey!), and its legendary nightclubs have shaped global electronic music. Walk past the world's longest open-air gallery painted on the Wall, cross a fairy-tale Gothic bridge that once divided East from West, and discover why this chaotic, beautiful, defiantly uncommon neighborhood is the Berlin that Berliners love most.
Itinerary
10 guided stops on this route
Kottbusser Tor - The Heart of Kreuzberg
The bilateral agreement expected them to stay for just two years, rotate out, and be replaced by new workers. But the system didn't work as planned — workers f…
Oranienstraße - Punk Boulevard
Due to Berlin's unique status as an occupied city governed by the four Allied powers (US, UK, France, Soviet Union), West Berlin residents were exempt from the…
SO36 Club - Birth of Berlin Punk
Before German reunification, Berlin had its own unique postal system different from the rest of Germany. 'SO36' became shorthand for the entire radical, creati…
Mariannenplatz - Art in Occupied Spaces
It was one of Berlin's most advanced medical facilities, capable of treating up to 500 patients at a time with pioneering surgical techniques. After it closed…
East Side Gallery - The World's Longest Open-Air Gallery
The Wall that tourists and artists covered in graffiti during the Cold War was actually the OUTER wall on the Western side. The real border had two parallel wa…
Oberbaumbrücke - Berlin's Most Beautiful Bridge
Kreuzberg residents considered Friedrichshain boring and conformist (it was East Berlin, after all); Friedrichshain residents thought Kreuzberg was too chaotic…
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