ECVS 24th Annual Scientific Meeting – Berlin – 2-4 July 2015

Our Partner Programme consists of two tours, one on Friday and one on Saturday morning, for your spouse/family members.

Discover Berlin, Walking tour - Friday morning 3 - 4 hours

Daytrip to Potsdam, Prussia's Wonderland - Saturday morning - 6 hours

See the online registation form for availablity and prices.

Tour 1 / Friday, 3 July 2015. Discover Berlin, Walking tour

Meeting Point: 8:15 at the Lobby. Bus transfer to Brandenburger Gate, Pariser Platz.
Starting there at 9:00am, finishing at 12:00 or 1.00pm
Break half-way to enjoy a currywurst at Dom Curry, Gendarmenmarkt (incl. in the price).
Cost of the tour: Euro 40.00

Sites you will see along the way are:

• Alexander Platz - Berlin's origins as a Slavic fishing village
• Berliner Dom – Baroque Cathedral and Hohenzollern resting place 
• Lustgarten - Prussian government and opulence 
• Humbolt University - Einstein & Marx 
• Site of Palast der Republic - East Germany's Ruling HQ 
• Bebel Platz - Nazi book burning 
• The Wall - how it came about and how it fell 
• SS & Gestapo HQ (Topography of Terror) 
• Wilhelm Str. - The Nazi military machine
• Site of Hitler's Bunker
• The final days Checkpoint Charlie - The American Sector 
• Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe 
• The Reichstag – bloody history and transparent future 
• The New 'Hauptbahnhof' or main train station - Berlin's infrastructural 'knot' 
• The new government quarter with it's many architectural highlights
• Brandenburg Gate - Napoleon, Bismarck, the German Kaisers, Nazis, The Allied forces and the New 'Berliner' Republic

Tour 2 / Saturday, 4 July 2015. Daytrip to Potsdam, Prussia's Wonderland

6 h round trip (with public transport) and lunch (approx. 13:00h) at the:
http://www.krongut-bornstedt.de/level9_cms/index.php
Lunch and zone-day pass are included in the price.
Cost of the tour: Euro 75.00

Meeting point at the Lobby 8:15, walk to the Zoo train station.

• Sites you will discover along the way are:         
• Potsdam's Old Town
• Dutch Quarter
• Church of Peace
• Sanssouci Palace and Gardens
• New Palace and Gardens
• Potsdam's Brandenburg Gate
• Cecilienhof Palace
• 1945 Potsdam Conference
• Glienicke 'spy-swopping' Bridge