Free audio walk in Berlin
Prussia: Power and Legacy
- 50 min
- 4.2 km
- 8 stops
- Free
Starts at Unter Den Linden 9
About this walk
Berlin once stood at the heart of the Prussian Empire: a city of kings, soldiers, and visionaries whose ambitions shaped Europe. This walk traces that powerful past, from grand monuments and royal squares to reminders of the wars that led to Prussia’s fall. Along the way, you’ll see how traces of this vanished kingdom still echo through modern Berlin. The walk begins and ends at different locations.
The stops
Walk them in order; each story plays when you reach its pin.
- 1Stop 1
Humboldt Forum / Berlin City Palace
The building in front of you has died twice and been reborn three times.
- 2Stop 2
The Prussian Legacy of Berlin
The city around you was shaped by a set of values so powerful they changed how entire nations are governed.
Read the story - 3Stop 3
Schlossplatz and the Thirty Years' War
This square holds the memory of a war so brutal it nearly erased an entire region from history.
Read the story - 4Stop 4
The Four Greatest Prussians of Unter den Linden
Standing on one of Europe's most famous boulevards, four men shaped the fate of a nation.
Read the story - 5Stop 5
Unter den Linden #18
A single window on this street changed the course of an empire forever.
Read the story - 6Stop 6
Napoleon crushed Prussia
Right here, a single military defeat changed the fate of an entire nation forever.
Read the story - 7Stop 7
The Victory Column
This golden goddess on a pillar was never supposed to be this tall, this famous, or this controversial.
Read the story - 8Stop 8
Otto von Bismarck
One man reshaped an entire continent through war, cunning, and an iron will.
Ready when you are
Walk Prussia: Power and Legacy with ROODS.
8 stops through Berlin, about 50 minutes. Open ROODS in your browser, walk to the first pin and the story plays.
- Stories on a map, with narrated audio
- Walk at your own pace, stop where you like
- Runs in your browser. An app is optional.
