Best of Berlin Tour by City Circle – Stop 2: KaDeWe
Start or interrupt your hop-on hop-off Berlin City Tour at stop KaDeWe, the biggest department store on the European continent.
Every Monday-Saturday the same ritual takes place at KaDeWe when, shortly before 10 a.m., the original iron gate dating from 1907 is lowered so that customers can embark on an exciting shopping adventure. Each day up to 180,000 customers from around the world are cordially welcomed by the KaDeWe before being attended to on more than 60,000 sq m of sales space by some 2,000 employees.
Points of interest and discoveries at the stop
- Wittenbergplatz: one of the most famous places in Berlin and the beginning of the big shopping mile Tauentzien/Kurfürstendamm
- Underground station Wittenbergplatz: the building from 1912 is considered to be a architectural gem, cross-shaped entrance and counter hall in neoclassical forms with square tower extension
- Brandenburg Farmer's market on Wittenbergplatz: always on Thursdays opposite the KaDeWe: exquisite products, which often come from organic farming, fresh gourmet offer, many snack and flower stands
- Tauentzienstraße: 500 m long shopping street with department stores, boutiques and shoe shops, belongs to Berlin's best shopping miles
- "Berlin" sculpture on Tauentzienstraße: silver sculpture made of chrome-nickel tubes from 1987 symbolizes the (at that time) divided, but still connected city
Absatz
Next stops on your Berlin City Tour
3 Lützowplatz/Hotel Berlin Berlin
1b Kurfürstendamm/Rankestraße
