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Attraction

Reichstag Building

Paul Wallot's parliament house of 1894 was gutted by fire in 1933 and stripped inside in the 1960s rebuild. Norman Foster's glass dome, added in the 1990s, has two spiral ramps that wind up to a view of Berlin and down onto the chamber.
Reichstag Building
Photo: Jörg Braukmann, CC BY-SA 4.0

Walks that pass here

Federal Chancellery

Walk

From the Tiergarten to Potsdamer Platz: a half-day walk through Berlin's government quarter

A half-day walk from the Victory Column through the Tiergarten to the Federal Chancellery, the Reichstag and the Holocaust memorial, ending at Potsdamer Platz. It suits first-time visitors who want a park, a parliament and the story of a divided city.

~3 h 45 min in total
~4.0 km, ~50 min walking
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