Discover Tiergarten

Between the Brandenburg Gate and Berlin Zoo lies Tiergarten, an inner-city park covering about 200 hectares. Large meadows and shade-providing trees shape the landscape; it offers space for relaxation, sports, and leisure. For Berlin, Tiergarten is the largest and most visited inner-city park. If you want to make a point of spending time in green surroundings during a city break, you can include it as an important part of your visit.

Meadows, activities, and walks

In Tiergarten, activities range from walking, cycling, and jogging to picnics, sports, and ball games. You can therefore make your time in the park more active or focus on relaxing outdoors. For people traveling together with different preferences, the options offer a practical comparison: cycling, jogging, and ball games have a different focus from walking and picnicking. This makes it easy to plan the day around the activities you want to enjoy.

A walk can take in several stops. A visit to Tiergarten can include the English Garden, Neuer See, Luiseninsel, the Soviet War Memorial, the Victory Column, and the House of World Cultures. This brings together natural scenery, a memorial site, and notable buildings. You can focus on the green spaces or on individual places, getting to know the park from different perspectives.

Berlin: more parks and cultural sites

Berlin offers a broader range of public parks beyond Tiergarten. Tempelhofer Feld is a large public park where people picnic, sunbathe, and play sports. Volkspark Friedrichshain has sports grounds, playgrounds, outdoor cafés, and a barbecue area for summer days. Two small artificial hills there consist of rubble from bunkers dismantled after World War II and debris from buildings destroyed in the war. They offer views over central Berlin and are called Mont Klamott and Kleiner Bunkerberg. The activities at Tempelhofer Feld thus contrast with a landscape where leisure spaces meet traces of the city's history.

Berlin's culture and history offer further interests to consider when planning a trip. The Brandenburg Gate was built in 1791 and is regarded as a symbol of German reunification. Museum Island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In Treptower Park, the Soviet War Memorial is the central memorial to soldiers of the Red Army who fell in battle. The Reichstag's walk-in glass dome offers views of nearby attractions and city life; check the current access rules before visiting.

Tailor your accommodation search to your travel plans

When searching for accommodations, you can first decide whether Tiergarten as a park destination should shape your visit, or whether you want to consider Berlin and its variety of green spaces and cultural sites as your destination. Tailor your search to the type of trip that best matches the experiences you have planned.

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