Shopping malls Berlin

This recent gigantic shopping center is full of mainstream stores. You can buy there what you can find in France in any shopping mall and you can find the big German chains. Nothing very original in itself, except maybe the Hertha Berlin and Bayern Munich stores for the soccer lovers. Another gift idea is the Eicie store with its posters and paintings of all kinds, many of which represent Berlin. The Bundesrat (Federal Council) can be seen from the footbridge connecting the two parts of the building.

There are two reasons to go to Galeries Lafayette: the building, designed by architect Jean Nouvel, and the basement, reserved for young Berlin designers. For the rest, it's just like in France, only more expensive. The real treasure is the French bookshop in the basement, which manages to offer the same prices as in France. Its selection of books on Berlin and Germany is excellent and the advice is competent. From there, take the opportunity to go to the Quartier 206. You will be surprised by its design inspired by Art Deco and the 1920s Berlin.

It is the largest mall in Berlin with 90,000 square meters and 150 stores. The Gropius Passagen is equipped with the classic department stores: fast fashion, such as H&M, C&A, Primark, but also toys, sports, health and beauty stores. It's well known that shopping makes your stomach churn: fortunately, Gropius has twenty or so gastronomic options to help you regain your strength! And to end the day in style, nothing better than to settle down at the UCI Multiplex cinema in front of the latest blockbuster.

Opened in 2018, this shopping center hosts more than 100 stores spread over three floors and a 24-hour parking lot right next to the Warschauer Straße train station. There are the usual mall stores: boutiques, supermarkets, banks, gym... The center recently opened a bee colony on the top floor of the parking lot in collaboration with the organization Stadtbienen.org, which raises awareness about bees and biodiversity by offering educational courses on maintaining bees in the urban space.