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DK Eyewitness Berlin (Travel Guide) Paperback – May 25, 2021
From the Brandenburg Gate to the TV Tower, Berlin boasts an incredible array of iconic sights, as well as a world-renowned arts scene which has cemented the city’s reputation as the European capital of cool. Beyond the centre, Berlin offers beautiful green spaces and idyllic lakes which provide the perfect tonic to the excitement of the city.
Our updated guide brings Berlin to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert-led insights, trusted travel advice, detailed breakdowns of all the must-see sights, photographs on practically every page, and our hand-drawn illustrations which place you inside the city's iconic buildings and neighborhoods. DK Eyewitness Berlin is your ticket to the trip of a lifetime.
Inside DK Eyewitness Berlin you will find:
- A fully-illustrated top experiences guide: our expert pick of Berlin’s must-sees and hidden gems
- Accessible itineraries to make the most out of each and every day
- Expert advice: honest recommendations for getting around safely, when to visit each sight, what to do before you visit, and how to save time and money
- Color-coded chapters to every part of Berlin, from Unter den Linden to Alexanderplatz
- Practical tips: the best places to eat, drink, shop and stay
- Detailed maps and walks to help you navigate the region country easily and confidently
- Covers: Around Unter den Linden, Museumsinsel, Alexanderplatz, North Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg, Friedrichshain, Tiergarten, Kreuzberg, Around Kurfürstendamm, Around Schloss Charlottenburg, Beyond the Centre
Touring the country? Try our DK Eyewitness Germany. Want the best of Berlin in your pocket? Try our DK Eyewitness Top 10 Berlin.
About DK Eyewitness:
At DK Eyewitness, we believe in the power of discovery. We make it easy for you to explore your dream destinations. DK Eyewitness travel guides have been helping travelers to make the most of their breaks since 1993. Filled with expert advice, striking photography and detailed illustrations, our highly visual DK Eyewitness guides will get you closer to your next adventure. We publish guides to more than 200 destinations, from pocket-sized city guides to comprehensive country guides. Named Top Guidebook Series at the 2020 Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards, we know that wherever you go next, your DK Eyewitness travel guides are the perfect companion.
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDK Eyewitness Travel
- Publication dateMay 25, 2021
- Dimensions5 x 0.7 x 8.56 inches
- ISBN-100241509661
- ISBN-13978-0241509661
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- Publisher : DK Eyewitness Travel; Illustrated edition (May 25, 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0241509661
- ISBN-13 : 978-0241509661
- Item Weight : 14.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.7 x 8.56 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,072,724 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #63 in Berlin Travel Guides
- #2,723 in German History (Books)
- #3,323 in Tourist Destinations & Museums Guides
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About the author
Explore the world with DK Eyewitness travel books. Our award-winning travel guides are compiled by real travellers and globe-trotting experts who provide trusted advice to over 200 global destinations. Brimming with stunning photography, detailed maps, sage advice and top tips; our highly visual guides contain everything needed for the trip of your dreams.
DK Eyewitness travel will help you live ‘Like a Local’ in new and exciting cities, or visit those ‘Top 10’ essentials, or plan that epic road trip. Whether it's a holiday of a lifetime, exploring a new continent or a city break, step into your next adventure with DK Eyewitness travel books.
Winner, Gold Award, Top Guidebook at the 2020 Wanderlust Magazine Reader Travel Awards.
Winner of the Travel Media Awards 2019 Guide of the Year for DK Eyewitness New York City.
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Firstly, as anyone who has other editions will know, they exude quality. Not only quality, but practical thoughtfulness. They are a good size to fit in a travel bag and are packed, absolutely packed, with practical, historical, creative and intriguing information, advice and tips. The guide is also colourful and inviting and really is an object lesson in covering all aspects of a city in an informative and easy to digest manner.
The stiffened end covers house fold out maps (a lovely touch) and the interior is helpfully divided into a "Discover" section (covering in a potted fashion exploring Berlin, reasons to love the city, getting to know it and find your way around and also fascinating historical information) and an "Experience" section.
The "Experience" part covers the main highlights of the city (Unter den Linden; Museuminsel; Alexanderplatz; North Mitte und Prenzlauer Berg; Friedrichshain; Tiergarten; Kreuzberg; Kurfuerstendamm; Schloss Charlottenburg and beyond the centre (all preceded by a map).
Added to this is advice for before you travel; getting around; practical info and tips and even a small phrasebook.
The layout, fantastic images and eye-popping layout are well up to the standard one expects of a D&K publication.
Indeed,I can imagine if I was to go and I was sitting in the UK departure lounge only to find Germany had been placed on the Covid red-list and my plans had to be abandoned, some succour would have been administered by an hour or so leafing through this wonderful guidebook.
As with others in the series - highly recommended!
I now must make some remarks that I have said before and which apply to the whole DK Eyewitness range. The ‘secret’, and the ‘defect‘, of this series of guides lies in the Eyewitness name. Visually they are stunning, but informationally they are light. They do locate the most interesting sights, whether well-known or obscure, but they do not provide the level of information that other guides always do. In a City Guide, I do not find this a great weakness, since there are so many other sources of info on opening times, costs, directions, booking, etc – not least from a smartphone! Maybe that is the rationale? Having said that there are pages of ‘Need to Know are at the back, with the back page containing a map and a folded detailed street map of the central areas. There are a few restaurant and hotel recommendations in small side panels. All are conservative. Most are expensive. First time visitors to either the city or Germany may feel that they have insufficient guidance, but this is not worth removing a star for.
Nonetheless, I am a real fan of the format and feel that it is particularly suited to the rash of Eyewitness City Guides that have recently been revised or launched. The Country guides suffer more in my view from an even greater lack of more local information on transport system, personal safety, etc. So, what is there to like?
Firstly, this guide has themed suggestions, in this case for art, families, food, LBGT, History buffs and outdoors! All these guides also have a 1 day, 3 day and 7 day set of recommended activities. All provide a basic history of the place and go into greater detail when looking at a particular attraction, e.g. Unter den Linden and Alexanderplatz. .
Secondly the photos are designed to give you a genuine idea as to whether that particular site is worth the effort. The space gained by dropping so much standard tourist information is very well used in showcasing these destinations. Maps are always excellent (except sometimes for driving).
Thirdly the Dorling Kindersley heritage extends to get excellent semi 3D maps of small but highly significant areas. (This is rather than providing cutaways of individual major buildings that you get in the Country guide equivalents by DK.) I love them. This style consciousness extends to the more general maps as well, which are I think the best around for clarity.
And finally, although the authorship of each part is not emphasized (unlike, say, Lonely Planet), the style is still pretty friendly, chummy even. Although I do not know who wrote each bit, I do know that they like me and want me to have a good time!
Your only reasons for not liking this guide would be stylistic. It is as up to date as such guides can be, - but as they all are, it is ‘Pre-Covid’! Some of the restaurants they recommend are bound to have gone bust or their patron (re)emigrated.