If you’re new to the city or just looking for a solid cultural-historic introduction, we have a new tour for you: www.slowtravelberlin.com/tours/an-int...

"Back in 1993, Berlin-based artists Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock inaugurated their hugely controversial “Places of Remembrance” memorial for a former Jewish district of West Berlin known as the Bavarian Quarter.” www.slowtravelberlin.com/places-of-re...

If you’re new to the city or just looking for a solid cultural-historic introduction, we have a new tour for you: www.slowtravelberlin.com/tours/an-int...

Icy Potsdamer Platz #berlin

Next Prenzlauer Berg tour is this Sat 10th, 1pm. 2 places left. Drop a line if you would like to join, or to enquire about other 2026 dates. www.slowtravelberlin.com/tours/beyond... (Photo: Stolpersteine en route to meeting at last week’s tour, which covers some of the area’s Jewish history)

New on the website: STB editor Paul Sullivan on the life, work and eternal relevance of Käthe Kollwitz ... www.slowtravelberlin.com/kathe-kollwi...

Entrance of Tempelhof Airport. 1930. Image: Tempelhof Airport Photo / History Archive

If you haven't had the chance to see a movie with a live orchestra - I can highly highly recommend it. What a fantastic evening at the Kino Babylon yesterday 👌🏻

New on the website: STB editor Paul Sullivan on the life, work and eternal relevance of Käthe Kollwitz ... www.slowtravelberlin.com/kathe-kollwi...

In an online world where everyone is selling ads or sponsored posts, the only thing we sell is community memberships. They start from as little as 3€ a month, and we need more members to continue into 2026. Please help if you can / like what we do. 🙏 steady.page/en/slowtrave...

A Stroll Through Hohenschönhausen — Paul Scraton explores local history and personal memories along Konrad-Wolf-Straße… www.slowtravelberlin.com/a-stroll-thr...

Next Prenzlauer Berg tour is this Sat 10th, 1pm. 2 places left. Drop a line if you would like to join, or to enquire about other 2026 dates. www.slowtravelberlin.com/tours/beyond... (Photo: Stolpersteine en route to meeting at last week’s tour, which covers some of the area’s Jewish history)

GDR lamppost mit unrefurbished house - Prenzlauer Berg, 2008

A postcard of the striking Marble Hall of the #Berlin Zoo. Destroyed in the war, it was used as the location for the Nosferatu Movie premiere in 1922.

Cold and white on the outside. But colourful and star-filled on the inside (of the Miseum Insel U Bahn)

Blixa Bargeld of Einstürzende Neubauten, 1984 — photo by Fred H. Berger

From the archives: (who remembers telephone boxes!?) #berlin #snowtravel

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Stalinallee, 1953 (renamed to Karl-Marx-Allee in 1961). Photo by Finnish photographer Urho Aarre Hugo Saarinen

“Over the ensuing decades, the U8 has become home to not just one but several bunkers from World War Two and the Cold War, a station that was used by East Berliners to escape to the West, and another station that’s decorated with uranium tiles…” www.slowtravelberlin.com/a-wild-anecd...

A walk through a Brandenburg forest 🙌 (Beetzer See)

Potsdamer Platz with traffic tower, 1930. Center to top: Stresemannstrasse, right: Pschorr-Haus, next to it: Potsdamer Bahnhof, next to it: Haus Vaterland and Anhalter Bahnhof, left: Hotel Fürstenhof. © Landesarchiv Berlin Photographer: Ewald Gnilka

Oberbaumbrücke at night #berlin

Berghain before it was Berghain (when it was just a humble and hard working power plant in 1950s East Berlin).

A very Christmassy bahn scene at Hennigsdorf #berlin

A snowy romp through the Grunewald forest, from S Bahn Grunewald to S Bahn Schlachtensee via the poignant Gleis 17 memorial #berlin #walkingberlin www.slowtravelberlin.com/hiking-the-g...

What was the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in 1945 was renamed the Bode Museum in 1956. Refurbished and reopened in 2096, the museum now houses the Sculpture Collection of works dating up to ca. 1800, the Museum of Byzantine Art, and the Numismatic Collection. www.museumsinsel-berlin.de/en/buildings...

Neukölln #berlin

Night view onto the Gate to Rule Them All #berlin

“Berlin is where I live and therefore I take most of my pictures here. I wouldn’t say Berlin is the best place in the world for street photography (that would be New York City), but it’s relatively easy in Berlin.” www.slowtravelberlin.com/guido-steenk...

Potsdamer Platz, 2950, #Berlin Quelle: Stadtblid Deutschland

We dropped into the Metzer Eck again over Xmas. The oldest family-run German pub in Prenzlauer Berg, it’s a wonderful time-capsule with its original wood panelling, decor and photos of celebrity GDR patrons. The service is friendly and they have Rollberg Rot on tap 😋

Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain

Some images snapped during an architectural meander through Berlin by UK Brutalism photographer Tom 8enjamin ... www.slowtravelberlin.com/photo-essay-...

Alexanderplatz, mid-70s #berlin Wartburg Tourist, Foto AK Werbung Auto Cars / Automotive Advertising

7am on New Year’s moning, #Berlin by László Moholy-Nagy (1930).

Happy New Year to all you lovely ppl / BLN fans ❤️

Some Good Reads from 2025…

Darkness has fallen. Are we all ready? 💥 Photo: Marzahn, New Year’s Eve, 1984. Bundesarchiv.

Since we finally got some snow today, here’s a little gallery of our fave Snowy Berlin pics from over the years. ⛄️ More: www.slowtravelberlin.com/berlin-winte...

Wertheim department store on Moritzplatz, 1928 #berlin

More of these sun-filled winter days please Berlin weather Gods! 🙏

"Erich Mielke was born in Wedding, a district in the northern part of Berlin, on December 29th 1907; his parents helped found the Communist Party of Germany (KPD)..." Tam Eastley on Stasi leader Erich Mielke—“the most feared man in the GDR” www.slowtravelberlin.com/on-the-mielk...

How NOT to dispose of your Christmas tree 🤦🏻‍♂️

Fox Watch! #berlin

It’s time for another game of “guess the staircase!” — who recognises this well-stickered and graffitied classic in the Mitte district? 👀

Another snowy pic from the archives (wishing for snow, wishing for snow). #berlin

How Warschauers Sraße looked in a 1910 postcard #berlin

A gentle reminder as we head towards a new year…

Walter Benjamin’s review of Hessel’s “Secret Berlin” (1927). Our profile of Franz Hessel: www.slowtravelberlin.com/franz-hessel...