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This is where the editorial team of visitBerlin gives tips and personal recommendations from their city. Insider tips for events, discoveries from the neighbourhoods, news from Berlin: we have written down what we like.

October in Berlin

Festival of Lights — © GettyImages, Foto: Yannick Tylle

A month full of highlighs

Each year, October in Berlin puts us under its spell anew. In addition to the beginning of autumn, you can look forward to many major events this month.

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Our series

Weekend tips in Berlin

TGIF! We have the best insider tips for city explorers, concert goers, exhibition visitors and sports fans on all 52 weekends.   Read more

Preview

What happens this month? We have compiled the most important events for you. Read more

New Openings

What's new in Berlin? New stores, restaurants, cafés and personal tips from the editorial team. There’s a lot to discover. Read more

Our newest posts

Hands view of young people eating brunch and drinking smoothies bowl with ecological straws in plastic free restaurant - Healthy lifestyle, food trends concept - Focus on top fork dish — © GettyImages, Foto: DisobeyArt

Berlin’s Top 11 Food Festivals

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach - Berlin's food festivals thought so too. The top 11 food festivals in autumn.

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Blick auf Berlin-Mitte an einem Regentag — © Getty Images, Foto: Federica Gentile

11 Bad-weather tips for Berlin

The temperatures are low and the clouds are hanging low. No problem: Here are 11 hotspots for cool days and warm hours in Berlin.

11 Tips for the Festival of Lights 2024

Find out from us which highlights you shouldn't miss at the Festival of Lights 2024 in Berlin!

Written for you by: Josefine

Remains of the Berlin Wall at Martin-Gropius-Bau — © visitBerlin, Foto: Martin Gentischer

The top 11 places to see what remains of the wall

The division of Germany, the "imprisonment" of an entire nation, the centre of the Cold War - there is hardly any other building of the 20th…

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

11 places in Berlin that are probably unknown

Want to bet that we can show you something new with these interesting places in Berlin?

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Fall of the Berlin Wall, the night of 9 November 1989 — © GettyImages, Foto: RolandBlunck

What you should know about the Berlin Wall

On the fall of the Wall on November 9: places, facts and stories that remind us of the formerly divided city.

Written for you by: Josefine

Weekend tips 4 - 6 / 10 / 24

With the Schöneberg Pumpkin Festival, autumn has finally returned to Berlin: here are the events to go with it!

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

The top 11 sushi restaurants in Berlin

Explore the best Berlin sushi restaurants: we’ve got the lowdown on the best Japanese-inspired restaurants in Berlin.

Street Food — © GettyImages, Foto: Melissa Tse

Top 11 Japanese Restaurants in Berlin

Discover the diversity of Japanese cuisine in Berlin: from yakiniku - the Japanese BBQ, vegan ramen to fresh sashimi and creative fusion…

Our authors

Berlin Blogger

Fans of fine dining, recreational sports nuts, dog lovers: our guest bloggers see Berlin from their own, completely different perspective. Read for yourself and see where they take us. All posts

Josefine

is originally from Munich and started out her career at one of Germanys largest daily news papers. Before finding her home in Berlin, she also reported as a correspondent and trend scout from the US. Today she is cruising Berlin's neighbourhoods, always on the lookout for good stories - with a focus on culture, music and ideas for the future of an innovative Berlin. All posts

Maria

studied art history in Berlin and is at home in the digital world. For her, things get interesting where technology and sustainability meet art and architecture. As a child, she wanted to become a writer or journalist. Today she writes about the Berlin of the future for you. All posts

Catrin

lives in Berlin for over 20 years and loves to travel the city. Preferrably by bike, she discovers the most exciting and interesting sides of Berlin. Across the city, across country and also off the beaten track. All posts

Kristin

does not smile on fotos. But in real life she enjoys with a smile in her face the rich cultural life of Berlin - the metropolis both in front of and behind the scenes. Her favourite season is the Berlinale, then she spends 10 days watching movies and writing about them in the blog. All posts

Dagmar

is an archaeologist who has worked on Mayan sites in Central America. After ten years, she left the world of the Maya for a life in Berlin and found that the city a rich place for field research as well. She has fallen in love with cultural treasures of Berlin. Whether alone or with her children, she loves to be out and about in the city, taking the time to look deeper and turn over a stone here and there. All posts

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