Reading history in the streets

Berlin is a city where history is visible everywhere - written into streets, buildings, and public spaces. In Layers of Time, an immersive history walking tour, we wander through Berlin as a place where different eras overlap—where every corner carries traces of past regimes, changing borders, political struggles, and everyday life.

This guided experience invites you to decode the city’s urban fabric, looking at monuments, memorials, architecture, and those small, easily overlooked places that still hold meaning. Some sites are proud symbols of power; others are quiet reminders of loss or resistance. We’ll connect what’s visible with what’s hidden, what’s remembered with what’s forgotten.

Along the way, we’ll talk about how public memory works: Who decides what gets remembered, and in what form? Which stories are told, and which are left out? How does a city deal with its past while looking ahead?

By peeling back these layers, you’ll see Berlin not just as a stage where history happened, but as a living place where memory is constantly being shaped, challenged, and reimagined.

Recommended for: history enthusiasts, educators, cultural travelers, and critical thinkers eager to understand how he ways a city’s past shapes its present.

This isn’t a lecture—it’s an active exploration of memory politics and the deep connections between place, history, and identity in Berlin.