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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.

December in Berlin

Berliner Weihnachtszeit at the Rotes Rathaus — © visitBerlin, Foto: Dagmar Schwelle

11 Tips for Christmas, New Year's Eve and the Advent season

From the 1st Advent over the contemplative Christmas season to the New Year's Eve party: December in Berlin is a very special 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

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Alte Nationalgalerie at Museum\ — © Luyue Zhang

Weekend tips 17 – 19 / 11 /2023

Warming weekend tips for Berlin: with endless festivals, cinema, circus and tea. Plus Diwali, light installations and animalistic good… Read more

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Gay Pärchen auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt — © GettyImages, Bild: gilaxia

11 Top Concept Stores in Berlin

Berlin boasts a multifaceted concept store scene that'll give any international shopping capital a run for its money. So get your shopping… Read more

Written for you by: Kristin

Group of friends eating a goose — © Getty Images, Foto: golero

11 Tips for delicious Roast Goose in Berlin

In November, many Berlin restaurants serve delicious roast goose - available on site, to take away or delivered to your home. Read more

Written for you by: Kristin

Heissa Wintermarkt — © enrico-verworner.de

These Christmas markets open first - 11 tips

When exactly do the first Berlin Christmas markets start? Find out here when the first markets open. A chronological Christmas market… Read more

Written for you by: Josefine

Berlinpanorama im Sonnenuntergang — © gettyimages, Foto: Katja-Xenikis/EyeEm

Top 11 New Openings in Berlin in November

New Christmas markets, bars and the Zita Club leave the November grey no chance. These new openings in Berlin give you a reason to celebrate… Read more

Written for you by: Josefine

Drachenfliegen — © Getty Images, Foto: Digital Zombie

Top 11 places for kite flying in Berlin

Berlin for hang gliders? That works! And how it works - former piles of rubbish and large parks turn out to be Eldorados for hang-gliders… Read more

Written for you by: Catrin

The fall of the Berlin Wall, the joy of freedom, November 1989 — © Foto: Brian Harris/Alamy Stock Photo

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. Read more

Written for you by: Josefine

Brandenburg Gate with Quadriga in Berlin in autumnal backlight — © iStock.com, Foto: sborisov

Weekend tips 10 – 12 / 11 / 2023

Film festivals, big shows and a bazaar. The Berlin weekend is packed with great events. Here are our highlights. Read more

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Small Hall at the Zoopalast Cinema Berlin — © visitBerlin, Foto: Wolfgang Scholvien

Special Cinemas in Berlin

For every film lover, there’s no better moment than when the lights go out in the cinema, the curtain opens, and the film starts. It’s… Read more

Written for you by: Kristin

Our authors

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

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

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

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

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

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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