Berlin Zoological Garden
Europe's most-visited zoo has been pulling crowds since 1844 — 3.5 million a year and counting.
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Germany's oldest surviving zoo spreads across 35 hectares of the Tiergarten, holding 1,380 species and over 20,200 animals — one of the most comprehensive collections anywhere. The first animals arrived as a royal gift from Frederick William IV's menagerie on Pfaueninsel island, and the zoo has grown into a major conservation hub running European breeding programmes for endangered species.
What to look for
- Scheduled animal feedings, the zoo's most famous recurring attraction
- The aquarium, a separate building that opened in 1913
- Signage around the giant panda and polar bear enclosures — Bao Bao and Knut made this zoo globally known
Reachable via the Zoo U-Bahn station, which has served visitors since 1882.
Berlin Zoological Garden 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.
- Berlin Olympic Stadium (Olympiastadion)Designed for the 1936 Olympics and still hosting European finals — the bowl has barely left the world stage.
- 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.