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MARIA GASTALDI 
Maria GASTALDI Professional license / certificate uploaded
GERMANY   
About the guide
Activities
Cultural tour guide
Speaking languages
English, French, Italian, German
Activity started in
2004
Car
NO
Interests centers

1) German History, the Prussian Kingdom and the History of Berlin.

2) Architecture related to Berlin, Potsdam and Dresden

3)Culture and urban development of Berlin, Potsdam and Dresden

4) Museums, Royal Parks and Palaces in Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden

5)Biking tours in and around Berlin
Diploma, references, agreements
- graduated from the University of Turin (Modern Languages and Literatures)

-graduated from the Free University of Berlin (Sociology)

-Member of The Berlin Guides Association

-Member of the Federal Guides Association in Germany

- Tourist Guide Training Certificate: BVGD DIN-EN
License or certificate (click to enlarge)
Services
Tailor-made tours Boat Family / Children Culture Bicycle 
Tailor-made tours, Boat, Family / Children, Culture, Bicycle
Contact
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Web site : www.my-berlin-for-you.de
Address : Bismarckstr. 53 14109 Berlin GERMANY
Phone : +49 30 8039896
Mobile : +49 (0)1774664939
Fax : +49 30 80585096
Tours

Guided tour #1: Berlin Panorama

Duration : 1 day
Level : easy Easy
If you are planning a trip to Berlin and you are looking for personally guided tours, I will be glad to show you the city´s many facets. I offer you a panoramic overview of the capital´s old (historical centre and East Berlin, West Berlin) and new main sights (Governmental District, Potsdamer Platz). Come and discover this interesting city with me. We will travel from the past to the future visiting its most famous but also lesser known and charming sights.
Activities, services on this tour:
Tailor-made tours
Tailor-made tours

Guided tour #2: Berlin Historical Centre

Duration : 1 day
Level : medium Medium
This walk combines history, architecture and culture. Starting at the Brandenburg Gate we will cross the newly refurbished Pariser Platz and afterwards stroll along Unter den Linden, the most famous boulevard in Berlin. Walking along the Friedrich Straße we will continue for the Gendarmenmarkt, one of the most beautiful squares in Berlin´s historical centre, situated in the former French 18th century residential area.
We will then head for the former Royal residential area and the world famous Museums Island, where the antiquities collections are housed in beautiful buildings, whose architecture is a testimony to Prussian and German history. At your request I can offer you a guided tour in the Pergamon Museum.

We will the continue our tour visiting Berlin´s cradle: the St. Nikolas quarter.



Activities, services on this tour:
Tailor-made tours
Tailor-made tours

Guided tour #3: The Berlin Wall

Duration : 1 day
Level : medium Medium
After the reunification a walking path (Berliner Mauerweg) took the place of the Berlin Wall. I invite you to follow me to its historically most interesting places and to the hot spots of the Cold War. During this tour you have the opportunity to visit the Mauermuseum at Check Point Charlie and/or the Museum dedicated to the Allied Forces in Berlin situated on the premises of the former U.S. community centre.
Activities, services on this tour:
Tailor-made tours
Tailor-made tours

Guided tour #4: Jewish Berlin

Duration : 1 day
Berlin has never had a ghetto. Jewish life and culture however were more concentrated in some districts than in others. We will start our tour where the first Synagogue inaugurated in 1713 stood. Then we will continue visiting the quarter where the most important institutions of the Jewish Community had their seat. This quarter is connetcted with the settlement and the growth of the Jewish Community starting from the late 17th century to the present. We will then visit the Memorial to the Assassinated European Jews and the Jewish Museum. At your request I can offer you a guided tour on the Architecture of the Jewish Museum and accompany you through the exhibition. I can also accompany you to the Jewish Cemetery in Weißensee, one of the most important Jewish Cemeteries in Europe.
Activities, services on this tour:
Tailor-made tours
Tailor-made tours

Guided tour #5: Potsdam

Duration : 1 day
During your sojourn in Berlin you should not miss to visit Potsdam. This town together with its skilful landscaped parks has been enlisted on the UNESCO Cultural Heritage since 1990. Potsdam was the second most important residence of the Prussian Royal Court after Berlin. It served both as a representative residencial seat and as a garrison town. This mixture has shaped both the town and its sourroundings giving birth to a peculiar cultural blend named Potsdamer Kulturlandschaft (Potsdam Cultural Landscape). Visit the old town, the beautiful Royal Palaces and their charming parks. Savour the Postdam blend taking a day trip walking through beautiful sceneries and places where history was made (e.g. Cecilienhof and the Potsdam Agreement 1945).
Activities, services on this tour:
Tailor-made tours
Tailor-made tours

Guided tour #6: East meets West

Duration : 1 day
This walking tour will focus on the reconstruction plans for the devastaded city after the WWII. At the beginning plans were made for a comprehensive urban redevelopment in East and West. But quite soon they had to come to terms with the creeping division of East- and West Berlin and the Cold War. The projects became symbols of the confrontation between two different political systems. After the reunification new projects came into being on the scar between East and West left by the wall in the urban landscape. We will visit the most interesting reconstruction projects in East and West Berlin and Berlin modernist skyline built after the reunification.
Activities, services on this tour:
Tailor-made tours
Tailor-made tours
Location
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Review
Sylviane DESCHAMPS - FRANCE  Review 2011-08-15 11:17 - 4
Maria m'a fait découvrir les sites connus de Berlin et Postdam, mais d'autres aussi qui m'auraient échappés avec un simple guide à la main. Gagné beaucoup de temps par les transports qu'elle connaît parfaitement. Berlin du passé mais aussi de l'avenir, architecture, urbanisme, Histoire. Une excellente formule qu'une guide particulière pour comprendre la ville.