Four of the Best Berlin Parks: A Guide to Green Spaces in BerlinCategory: Travel & Holidays
Article added by: Paul Collins
From time to time, doing a German course in Berlin can be a little frustrating. Not only are there the city’s great shopping and countless cultural attractions to resist on a daily basis, but when the sun sets, the infamous Berlin nightlife scene comes into its own…
In fact, so many and varied are the things to do in Berlin, that sometimes it can seem like you just weren’t meant to go to class at all! But amongst all these countless distractions, there’s one thing that’s very much on the side of the student: Berlin parks.
Spread out across the city, the parks in Berlin are a real godsend for anyone doing a language course. After a long day in the classroom, slipping off for a bit of carefree studying in the fresh air at one of the parks below is the perfect way of combining work with pleasure.
1. Tiergarten
The Tiergarten is undoubtedly the most famous park in Berlin. And it’s famous for a reason – or rather several reasons. A former royal hunting ground, now slap-bang in the heart of the city (in Mitte) the Tiergarten is a magnificent – and vast – swathe of green.
There are plenty of attractions in the park, not least of which is the Zoologischer Garten Berlin (Berlin’s main zoo). But really, for any student on a German course in Berlin, there could be few better places to sit – under a tree, perhaps – with half an eye on a book, and the other on all the people passing by.
2. Viktoria Park
Rising high above the districts of Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, Viktoria Park is a different beast altogether from the Tiergarten. For starters, there’s none of its smartness: Viktoria Park is a resolutely urban park surrounded by a gritty and (particularly in winter), grey landscape.
And that’s really what makes it so valuable amongst Berlin parks: it’s so necessary. From early in the morning when the joggers pace the paths, to late evening, when the local hipsters take a turn before a night out, it’s a real focal point of the neighborhood. Oh, and the views of the city are fantastic, too!
3. Pfaueninsel
And the contrast between Viktoria Park and Pfaueninsel – or Peacock Island, as it’s known for its striking (but noisy!) inhabitants – could scarcely be any starker, either. Marooned in the middle of the Wansee, and designed at the end of the 18th century as a royal love nest, it’s undoubtedly one of the most idyllic of Berlin parks.
4. Grunewald
The wonderful thing about Grunewald is that it’s a genuinely wild piece of rural land that’s just a stone’s throw from central Berlin. A huge forest, essentially, there are countless tracks leading off into the depths of the undergrowth that are ideal for jogging, horse-riding, mountain-biking, and most of all for beautiful strolls.
For getting out of the city, and blowing away the cobwebs after a long day in the classroom (or an overdose of Berlin nightlife), there could be few better places for a student on a German course in Berlin to make for.
Posted By: Paul Collins
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| Travel writer Paul Collins has always felt at home in Berlin. As a former language teacher, he’s always taken an interest in just how to really make the most of a German course in Berlin. |
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