Berlin Olympic Stadium (Olympiastadion)
Designed for the 1936 Olympics and still hosting European finals — the bowl has barely left the world stage.
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Werner March designed this arena for the 1936 Summer Olympics, where attendance exceeded 100,000. Renovated in 2004 to 74,475 seats, it went on to host the 2006 World Cup final, the 2015 Champions League final, and the UEFA Euro 2024 final. Hertha BSC has called it home since 1963, and the DFB-Pokal final returns every year since 1985.
What to look for
- The sunken bowl itself — Otto March originally conceived the design as an 'Erdstadion,' deliberately built below ground level
- Jesse-Owens-Allee, where the old ticket booths from the original Berliner Rennverein horse-racing course still stand
- The capacity gap: today's 74,475 seats against the 100,000-plus who packed in for the 1936 Games
Check the fixture calendar before visiting — the DFB-Pokal final lands here every year, and Hertha BSC home matches fill the lower tiers.
Berlin Olympic Stadium (Olympiastadion) is one of 37 sights worth the detour in Berlin, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Berlin pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Berlin
- Berlin WallBuilt to keep citizens in, not enemies out — and the death strip of anti-vehicle trenches and beds of nails makes that intent impossible to misread.
- Brandenburg GateFor 28 years a wall sealed it shut — now you walk straight through.
- ReichstagA fire in 1933, a battle in 1945, a dome in 1999 — you walk inside Germany's working parliament.
- Pergamon MuseumThe Pergamon Altar and the collections of the Vorderasiatisches Museum once filled this hall — closed since 2023, with the North Wing returning in 2027.
- Fernsehturm BerlinA 368-metre Cold War statement that outlived the government that built it — and now stands for the city that absorbed it.
- Museum IslandFive museums on one island, built across a century by Prussian kings — now a UNESCO site for showing how museums themselves evolved.