Alternative Berlin Tours

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Alternative Berlin Tours

To see the best street art and graffiti, hear the best music, meet the real people, and feel the raw spirit of Berlin — you have to step out of the everyday. You have to try something alternative. We are the original Alternative Berlin Tour - created in 2009, long before it became a trend spreading in cities around the world. From discovering Berlin's subcultures on our Alternative Berlin Tour, chilling on our Free Tour, exploring murals on the Street Art Tour, creating your own piece in the Street Art & Graffiti Workshop, uncovering hidden stories on the Real Berlin Tour, or stepping into the underworld on our new Twilight Tour. Each experience reveals a different face of the city and each one stays true to what we do best: we specialize exclusively in Alternative Tours, storytelling from the streets, guided by the people who live them. We walk through the neighborhoods where Berlin's creative spirit still burns - Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, Neukölln - where punk squats clash with new money, Turkish markets beside techno clubs, and stories told through walls and lived out in the backstreets.

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Alternative Tour Berlin

Welcome to Berlin’s original Alternative Tour — invented by us in 2009, born in Berlin, imitated ever since and the one that made us famous over the world. From punk rock to techno, politics to squatting culture. From the best street art and graffiti whilst visiting amazing buildings from treehouses to beaches and everything inbetween. From the back streets to the big city. The stories of Berlin’s amazing alternative culture are laid bare. Journey through the Mitte, Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain districts that pulse with creativity and resistance on our legendary Alternative Berlin tour. Each stop capturing Berlin's unyielding spirit, from the vibrant street art and murals of Haus Schwarzenberg to the cultural oasis of YAAM beach. Discover the Treehouse on the Wall, a symbol of ingenuity and defiance, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, a hub for contemporary art and the origins of Berlin’s squatting scene. Visit neighborhoods with local Berlin charm and multicultural flair off the beaten path. Your guide, deeply connected to the local scene, will share tales of punk rock revolutions, techno’s underground rise, Berlin´s incredible street art and graffiti culture and the squatting movements that redefined urban living. Tour Highlights: Haus Schwarzenberg: Street art and Alternative Berlin culture. YAAM Beach: Reggae, music, graffiti scenes and community converge. Kunstlerhaus Bethanien: Local history, alternative housing and activism. Treehouse on the Wall: A unique symbol of resilience and creativity. SO36: The legendary club that echoes Berlin’s punk, eclectic and alternative music heritage. The Alternative Berlin tour is our flagship experience, enjoyed by thousands of travelers and private groups for almost 20 years. These tours are led by guides who are firmly entrenched in Berlin´s subculture and local scenes. While Berlin has experienced changes over the years, our tours reflect the city´s immensely creative and rebellious spirit, reinventing itself again and again. We warmly invite you to experience this amazing city with us. What to bring: train ticket (AB single ride ticket) appropriate clothing depending on weather (umbrella if necessary)

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Street Art Tour

Artists will tell you the secrets, history, techniques, rules and personal stories of graffiti and street art on this colorful tour of a city whose walls are like canvas. This is a comprehensive tour of the history of Street Art & Graffiti and its culture. Berlin's air is thick with paint. Its soundtrack is the clack-clack of a spray can in the night. Tags tell as much of a story as five-storey murals, a name on a train can be as expressive as a centuries-old painting by a Dutch master. Who owns the city? Who designs our public space, can express and realize themselves in it? What messages do we perceive and what do the artists and actors have to say to us, who empower themselves and often communicate without being asked? Murals, rooftops, bombing and tagging, stencils, paste-ups and stickers are their language of expression, which we will discover on this tour. Our guides are experts and members of this scene. They know the history, the stories and above all the culture and will show you the best hidden corners for urban art in this modern Mecca. The tour starts in Friedrichshain and ends in Kreuzberg with the realization that urban art is more than just writing on the wall. What to bring: Depending on the current art and tour route we might need an AB zone transport ticket. It´s best to bring them to the tour but we can also buy them along the way when we need it. appropriate clothing depending on weather (umbrella if necessary)

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Real Berlin Experience

Learn about extraordinary people with extraordinary stories. Of art and architecture, cinema and squats. War and peace. East and West. A deeper look below the surface of Berlin. Shine a light into the shadows of history and how it affects the present day on the Real Berlin experience. Visit districts that have changed beyond recognition over the decades, through processes as diverse as squatting, revolution and gentrification. Experience the never ending, ever changing chaos. We tell you the stories you don't know, of pioneers of cinema and those who refused to bow to fascism. We will make you fall in love. Discover Berlin's dynamic culture and lifestyle, and see why it fascinates so many visitors year after year. Creative, tolerant, multi-cultural, and liberal; no other city balances tradition and trends, density and open space, underground and cosmopolitan areas. On this premier alternative tour you will step off the tourist trail and explore the entire cultural landscape from a local perspective. From alternative underground, to urban and cosmopolitan, your guide will compare the many flavors, colors, and vibes of the East and West Berlin neighborhoods Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg and Kreuzberg. Stroll through landmarks of the city's subcultural and countercultural history, and see some of the world's most breathtaking street art and graffiti up close. What to bring: train ticket (AB day pass) appropriate clothing depending on weather (umbrella if necessary)

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