Thanks Felix for the great tour!
About Activity
What's Included
Includes
- All Fees and Taxes
- Guide
Excludes
- Visiting buildings in which clinical or university operations take place.
Departure & Return
Departure Point
- At the Robert Koch monument in Robert-Koch-Platz. Look for our guide with the orange umbrella!
Return
- By the Humboldthafen canal a 10-minute walk away from the Berlin Central Station.
Itinerary
Discover why and how the Charité hospital - the oldest in Berlin - was established in the 18th century. See the monument of Robert Koch - the Nobel-prize winning scientist who discovered the cause of tuberculosis, anthrax and cholera, and was also responsible for the first pharmaceutical scandal in medical history.
Explore the oldest surviving academic building in Berlin, an 18th-century neoclassical gem where veterinarians studied animal diseases and hear the stories of how diseases were treated before the advent of science.
Hear the story of Rudolf Virchow, the father of modern pathology and the founder of social medicine
See the first monument in Berlin dedicated to a scientist and hear the story of Albrecht von Graefe, a groundbreaking ophthalmologist.
Explore the beautiful neogothic red-brick campus. Find out how some doctors abused medicine during the Third Reich, while others helped everyone indiscriminately until the last days of WWII.
See the place where several East Berliners attempted escape to the West by swimming across the city canal just outside Charité campus and hear the stories of life in the hospital during the socialist era and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Reviews
The tour was amazing and so was our Guide (Felix). I would recommend it to anyone interested in the Political aspects of Medicine.
Our guide Felix was very dedicated and enertainig. We have spent very interesting and value time. Best regards for Felix. Nadzieja with family.
We had a fantastic tour today about the history of the Charité in Berlin with Felix from BB Tours. We have already taken several tours with this company and enjoyed every single one, and this experience was no exception. Felix demonstrated not only extensive knowledge of the subject, but also genuine interest and enthusiasm. His way of explaining made a topic that could easily have felt dense or overly academic both accessible and fascinating. His storytelling was excellent: he highlighted important details, raised relevant questions, and introduced broader debates that went far beyond the basics and gave us plenty to reflect on. His English was excellent, and he was articulate, clear, and very easy to understand. He was also highly professional and attentive to the group throughout the tour. He spoke loudly and clearly, looked for shaded places and opportunities for us to sit, made sure everyone stayed together and comfortable, and always warned us when city noise might interfere, taking care to prevent it from disrupting the experience. Although the tour lasted only two hours, it was incredibly rich in information and left me wanting to learn much more about the subject. We absolutely loved it and would highly recommend both Felix and BB Tours!
A really interesting tour and cool experience! Our guide was incredibly knowledgeable, passionate and engaging. I enjoyed learning about the Charite and its history while walking around that beautiful part of town. Highly recommend<3
Great guide, deep knowledge, highly interactive and entertaining. Best guided tour I have ever had!
The information offered was linked together in order to provide an understanding of the historical process, its consequences and the contradictions inherent in History. An excellent connection between the physical space and the historical narrative.
It is so great to have a tour that goes "beyond and beneath"....this is not your superficial coverage, it is a tour that reveals details. You ask a question, and the answer is always another interesting path, and Martina can go down that path with you.
It's always a great experience to tour with Martina. She is full of relevant and interesting information which she shares in engaging ways.
Interesting look at medical Harley as well current issues. Your leader was very knowledgeable & great story teller
Fascinating Tour with a very knowledgeable and entertaining guide! I thoroughly enjoyed it, showing the hidden gems and putting historic information into context. Highly recommended for locals and tourists alike that like to discover new things about Berlin or 300 years of medical history.
A different kind of tour, with many interesting facts and less known topics about Berlin history. Especially if you have stayed in Berlin for a while and want to learn about Berlin from a less touristic perspective. Martina is an amazing guide, very professional and knowledgeable. Thank you.
I can highly recommend :) I learnt a lot and got to discover places I had never been to. I loved seeing the old maps and pictures that Martina brought along and I left with some nice recommendations! Thank-you!
The tour was so interesting and dinamic, we could explore the non-obvious but really important places that show the history of the Charite and the most relevant people who contribute to science. We walk through the Charite campus and every stop was so cool! Martina tells everything with enthusiasm and easy to understand. I’m excited for the next tour !
The two hours were impressively packed with history from Charité's origins to what it is today and about many important medical figures. Our guide was very knowledgeable and enthusiastic as she led us to several important locations and had additional material to help illustrate the stories. It was clearly very well planned out and turned out to be the highlight of our trip!
Very interesting background about the Charité in certain epoches. Questioning the famous scientiests and their methods in the 1940ies. Great Tipps for visiting other memorials
Felix is a likable young man who made the tour a special experience through his extensive knowledge and his nice manner.
Walking tour means a walking tour outside the grounds. An almost three-hour lecture on medical history. At various points around the Charité. You do not see anything of the interior of the clinic. I was very disappointed.
Informative tour with the competent and likable guide Felix - thank you very much!
Our tour guide was Felix. He brought the history of the Charité closer to us in a very professional, competent, and entertaining way. Thank you very much for that.
Felix, our tour guide, led us through the 300-year history of the Charité in a very entertaining and amusing way. Among other things, he told us many anecdotes, showed us memorial plaques that we had previously walked past without noticing, and was happy to answer our many questions. We would book a tour with him again anytime, a clear recommendation!
Felix was a super nice guide. He knew a lot and was also able to answer questions. Even for Berliners, there is still a lot to learn, as you otherwise just rush past the plaques and statues.
Very interesting tour. Felix was a great guide!
Great tour with our tour guide Felix. Very competent, lively, and entertaining presentation of the history of the Charité.
Absolute recommendation! Tour guide Felix provided the group with two incredibly interesting hours. Definitely take the Charité tour!
Very competent, refreshing, compact tour by Anja Fließ. A big thank you! Entertaining and history presented in a highly exciting way with many anecdotes and display boards. I will draw from it for a long time. Best regards from Anna Gehrke
We took the tour on 08/21 in perfect weather and were really lucky with Felix. At the beginning, he warned us that he didn't grow up in Germany and might occasionally think of an English word instead. You couldn't tell at all. The entire tour was in truly flawless German. Felix was also just super personable and attentive. In the sunny weather, he always made sure that we stood in the shade whenever possible. In between, we were also able to sit down for a bit. And because Berlin is loud, he always found a solution for that too. Then we just went behind a monument for a bit so that we could understand him better. What we particularly liked: You don't just listen. Felix keeps asking questions, involves the group, and small discussions arise. And if no one wanted to say anything, he charmingly bridged the silence himself and simply put the answer out there. He also had a few pictures with him for illustration. The tour was interesting, varied, and not at all dry. Especially with so much history and sometimes difficult topics, that is really not a given. Thanks for the great tour, Felix. It was a real pleasure for us. 😄
Felix was really very dedicated and entertaining.
It was a wonderful and very interesting tour. Our guide Martina shared a lot of interesting information, some of which was new to us, about the Charité. Her knowledge and the way she told the stories impressed us greatly. Would love to do it again.
A truly absolute highlight of our trip, detailed, informative, and a great experience!! I would definitely recommend it!!
Very informative tour with Martina around Charité-Berlin. Fascinating time travel through 300 years of the history of medicine with a lot of specialist detailed knowledge. Competent and entertaining.
The Charité tour with Martina is highly recommended! With historical detailed knowledge, Martina brings interesting facts to her audience in an entertaining, entertaining and personable way that are so fascinating that the two hours fly by. Great compliment for this unique tour!
A guided tour with Anthony on the topic of Robert Koch / Charité inspired us today. He imparted detailed knowledge with anecdotes and pictorial material and various object inspections on the Charité grounds in an objective manner and thus created lasting memories for us. We will definitely book more guided tours with Anthony.
Great guided tour with a guide who immersed us in the history of the Charite in an exciting and captivating way. Lots of background information and small but valuable details! Great experience and highly recommended!
A wonderful, exciting and informative tour with a very great guide! Not only does he know a lot, but he tells the facts and stories in a totally exciting way! Highly recommended!
This tour, especially with this provider, was recommended to me by a colleague and I was not disappointed! The guide explained very vividly the historical development with the outstanding physicians and researchers. It was an interesting lecture with individual anecdotes that loosened up the story a lot. Thank you for that! The Hahn family
The tour was a wonderful and interesting experience that gave us an extensive insight into the complex history of Charité. The tour guide was very friendly :)
A very interesting tour through the history of Berlin's famous Charité. Told with great stories and exciting details.
Vibrant, competent and personable leadership. Well researched, committed, vivid and well embedded in contemporary history.
A lot of information told excitingly and structured. Not only learned a lot about Charité, but also how to maintain good leadership!
Very interesting guided tour with interesting explanations it was a great afternoon. Thank you very much! We can only recommend the tour.
A great tour, provided deep insights into medical history and developments over the centuries. We've all learned a lot of new things. Especially for employees in medical fields a really cool event.
The information around the history of Charité was very sorted and interestingly told. The tour guide was well informed, had a very pleasant way of telling and responded superbly to questions. Highly recommended!
Very informative tour. We learned a lot of new things and received super good insider tips. The tour guide was very nice and knew a lot about Charité/Berlin's history.
Short but deep journey through the history of the Charité. A good story tells not only with statues and buildings, but also through historical documents
Great tour, well structured and entertaining! A big compliment to Antoni :)) Thanks for the exciting information and the valuable tips!
Super interesting, entertaining tour. Even without prior knowledge, I was able to learn a lot. Antoni narrated and described the tour with lots of information. He knows how to captivate the audience and take them back in time! In addition, the historical buildings make the story more tangible. I really enjoyed it. Thanks to Antoni and bbtours
Martina brought the history of the Charité to our attention in a captivating way. It was an entertaining and very interesting 2 hours. We would be happy to book again.
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