The surroundings: In the centre of Berlin, close to everything.
Surrounded by green areas, supermarkets, and all the necessary services
You can arrive to an important part of the most emblematic places of Berlin by a comfortable walk. If you go for a walk, you may arrive:
In 3 minutes: New mall Alexa
The last 12th of September, 2007 the new mall was opened. It has 8,000 m². of surface, 26 restaurants and the biggest Media Markt store in Europe. A wonder near home..
http://www.alexacentre.com/uc/default_uc.aspx
In 7 minutes: Nikolai Viertel
If we go for a pleasant walk from our apartment along the Spree River, we arrive at the restored old town of Berlin with the Nikolaikirche as its principal part. Its pleasant pedestrian zone delights the visitors, as well as its excellent restaurants, craftsmen and shops. We find on the same side the Roten Rathaus and the Alexander Platz.
http://www.berlin-nikolaiviertel.de/Spree
In 7 minutes: Markisches Museum
It is the history of the architecture in Berlin and Germany.
If we watch through the windows at the park and look at the romantic courtyard, visitors can feel distant the present Berlin. Built with red bricks with Gothic and Renaissance allusions, the museum is perfect for those who want to discover the German castles, mysteriously romantic.
http://www.stadtmuseum.de/index3.php?museum=mm
In 9 minutes: Alexander Platz.
Simply Alex for Berliners, it is also the communication nerve centre and passengers transfer. We find the Fernsehturm, the highest TV Tower in the European Union, the Roten Rathaus, the Forum Hotel Berlin, the World Clock, and the best stores and shopping malls. Geschäften.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexanderplatz
In 10 minutes: Karl-Marx-Allee.
Karl-Marx-Allee is a huge socialist boulevard built by the young East Germany between 1952 and 1960 in Berlin Friedrichshain and Berlin Mitte. Along the 89-meters-width and 2-km-length avenue, you can find 8 huge buildings designed in the classical socialist style of the Soviet Union.
http://www.berlin-friedrichshain.com
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Marx-Allee
In 15 minutes: Unter den Linden (Schlossbrücke).
It is the main boulevard of the city. It starts at the Parisier Platz next to the Brandenburg Gate, where the Academy of Art, the famous Adlon Hotel and the French embassy are. From this square you can walk 1.5 km until the Schlossbrücke Bridge, where the Museum Insel (Museum Island) joins the central east of Berlin (Alexander Platz)
In Unter den Linden there is the Cathedral, the Opera House, Humboldt University and several institutions, museums and tourist and cultural attractions, as well as several excellent restaurants and shops.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unter_den_Linden
In 25 minutes: Hackescher Markt.
There are 15 minutes on foot from Alexander Platz, and 4 minutes by tram M4. The zone amazes by its young, modern and current environment. You may enjoy many bars of different designed trends and styles, and restaurants of all kinds of cuisine, a leisure choice incomparable with an exceptional environment that flows through the surrounding streets and the famous "Höfes" (inner courtyards).
In 10 minutes by Metro U2, from Klosterstr.: Friedrichstr.
It is the main street and especially more "glamorous" in the most elegant neighbourhood, only few meters away from the Gendarmenmarkt. Here you will find large and luxurious trademarks, Lafayette Galleries with its striking inner architecture, restaurants and bars with exclusive customers and high level quality. It was the old border between the two Germanies and CheckPoint Charlie reminds it.
www.friedrichstrasse.de
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkpoint_Charlie
www.mauermuseum.de
In 15 minutes by Metro U2, from Klosterstr.: Potsdamer Platz
You can not forget to visit this wonderful place with its modern and avant-garde architecture that raises its skyscrapers to their maximum splendour, the Sony Center, the Arcaden mall and by contrast the first traffic lights of Europe. Next door, at the Berlinale Palast, the Berlin Film Festival takes place, Berlinale where the Golden bears are delivered to the best movies. Bären verliehen werden. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdamer_Platz
In 20 minutes by Metro U2, from Klosterstr: City West - K 'Damm
The centre of west Berlin, the most popular commercial district with the famous Kadewe (abbreviation of west warehouses), Kurfürstendammstr., Wittenbergplatz, Breitscheidplatz with the Kaiser Wilhelm church in ruins, the Zoological Garden, theatres, museums, cultural centres and luxury shops.
www.kadewe-berlin.de
www.kurfuerstendamm.de
www.zoo-berlin.de