DK Travel : Berlin

Berlin is Germany’s liveliest city and one of the most fascinating capitals in the world. You’ll find no other place where art and culture, museums and theatres, entertainment and nightlife are more diverse and exciting than on the banks of the Spree River. Once reunited, Berlin quickly developed into a cosmopolitan city, and today there is an air of energy and vibrancy about it.

Multi-lingual tourist information: www.berlin.de or: www.btm.de

Filmpark Babelsberg

The Filmpark offers visitors a tour of the legendary UFA-Studios, which were among the world’s most important when they operated here in Babelsberg from 1917 to 1945. Exciting U-boat trips, stunt performances and special effects are shown.
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First Floor

A 1920s-style restaurant, serving traditional Berlin and French food.
First Floor

This top gourmet restaurant, specializing in the creation of new German dishes, is a well-guarded secret. The menu features traditional Berlin fare such as Eisbein mit Sauerkraut (pork knuckle with sauerkraut) as well as new creations using fish, langoustines and truffles. The specials of the day are more moderately priced. Book in advance.
Fitnessstudio Ars Vitalis

Berlin’s friendliest and most elegant fitness studio follows a holistic approach to wellbeing. Visitors can relax, attend classes on a day ticket or enjoy a massage as well as use the pool and sauna.
Florian

Trendy and popular with film lovers; southern German food.
Flughafen Tempelhof

Tempelhof, built in 1939 by Ernst Sagebiel and then Germany’s biggest airport, survives as the largest Fascist structure in Europe. In front of it, a monument, nicknamed “the starving claw”, recalls the airport’s role during the Berlin Airlift in 1948–9.
Forsthaus Paulsborn

This rustic restaurant next to Jagdschloss Grunewald is based in an old hunting lodge.
Forum Fridericianum

The historic structures of this architectural complex in Unter den Linden are among the finest attractions in Berlin. From 1740, Frederick the Great commissioned the prestigious Early-Neo-Classical buildings for the area around today’s Bebelplatz, and personally influenced their design: Deutsche Staatsoper, the first free-standing opera house in Europe; Catholic St Hedwigskathedrale, Alte Bibliothek and Prinz-Heinrich-Palais, later the Humboldt University. Bebelplatz itself is particularly interesting. A memorial set into the ground reminds of its dark past – in 1933, it was the venue for the Nazi book burning. Frederick’s successors commissioned Altes Palais and a memorial statue of “the old Fritz”, surrounded by “his” buildings. Christian Daniel Rauch created the 13.5-m (44-ft) high equestrian bronze figure in 1840. It portrays Frederick the Great wearing his trademark tricorn hat and coronation mantle and carrying a walking stick. The statue has always turned its back to the east – but wags claim that the East German government mistakenly set up the figure the wrong way around.
Franziskanerkirche

The ruins, remnants of a 13th-century Franciscan abbey, are surrounded by lawns, making this a picturesque spot for a rest in the city centre.
Französische Kirche

In 1752, Johann Boumann built this elliptical Huguenot church with its giant columned portico, while Schinkel designed the beautiful interior in the 1830s.

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