Kurfürstendamm

The next place to visit on this list is Kurfürstendamm - West Berlin’s legendary shopping boulevard. Kurfürstendamm got its name from the prince-electors who rode along it to hunt in Grunewald, but now it’s full of Berliners and visitors on the hunt for the latest fashion and designer items or the best bargains. This is a 3.5-kilometer-long boulevard that takes you from Breitscheidplatz and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche to Rathenauplatz. Along Kurfürstendamm you pass the flagship stores of famous labels, shops of international brands and famous names, and Karstadt, another big department store, alongside many other shops and boutiques that have been here for centuries. Therefore, you are guaranteed to have a successful shopping trip here!

Kurfürstendamm is also a place with breathtaking architecture that showcases the soul of Berlin. The Ku’damm-Eck on the corner of Joachimsthaler Straße is an interesting example of contemporary architecture. At the Kranzler-Eck opposite, until it was modernized in 2000, the chairs of Café Kranzler stood outside on the pavement. Today, the red and white striped awning still decorates the rotunda of the Neues Kranzler-Eck. For Berlin’s 750th anniversary celebrations, sculptures were installed all along Ku’Damm. The intertwining sculpture Berlin on Tauentzienstraße – a famous motif from the soap opera Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten – is still a popular subject for photographs.