It can be quite challenging for a visitor to fully appreciate the historical meaning of the architectural features and the cultural activities of/accomplishments in a city as historically diverse and layered as Berlin. Without tour guides, Berlin’s history may easily be erased, and visitors help us avoid such a fate and grasp the significance of the present. Here readers will be able to familiarize themselves with the range of reasons why guides are relevant when it comes to the protection of the history of Berlin.
The Power of Storytelling
Most often, tour guides are able to preserve Berlin’s history, through the manner that they narrate its histories. They make history more real by giving out historical facts, and setting up real life like examples. Interlinking facts and feelings as well as presenting experiences, tour guides can make travellers touch the history of Berlin. Many tour guides as I have seen and heard make the Berlin history easier to understand and remember and therefore help in passing it on to the next generations.
Sprit of Specialization and Special Knowledge
Tour guides can be assumption travelers, but in the same time they are professionals who have gathered information for several years researching Berlin. They are knowledgeable about its history, structure, and heritage much more than anyone else. That way they are able to disseminate knowledge that is correct to the visitors. A guide is armed with considerable information and so he or she is in a position to respond to various queries, describe in details issues as well as elaborate odd facts which might not be described in guides. It is with the help of professional historians that the history of Berlin is recorded as it is.
Directly related to the previous point is the idea to save local history and culture.
The difference between is that while learning history through reading, you may focus only on the events and key characters while the tour guide draws attention to the often overlooked stories and customs of the region. They explain the realities of the life in the past and, therefore, give the life in Berlin’s history, and the life would have remained a mystery to the visitors. I believe that through sharing such personal experiences and traditions, guides raise the question of how those simple and at the same time such significant aspects should be saved – alongside the grand history of Berlin?
Historical landmarks must be contextualized
Exploring the beauty of Berlin you comes across many great and important monuments and landmarks in the city. But at the same time proper classification of such sites may sometimes be confusing or even lose its sense. It goes without saying that tour guides are rather helpful when it comes to introducing appropriate background information to consider these landmarks. Regardless of whether it is the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie or something else, guides link these landmarks to the big picture in Berlin’s history.
Cultural History and its Protection
Tourists should follow the guidelines provided by the tour guides in order to ensure that part of Berlin’s culture is viewed at such sites, museums and exhibitions that that are aimed at preserving culture. They thus assist to sustain these institutions and encourage patrons to patronise beans relevant to Berlin’s history and heritage. In this way, tour guides not only participate in guarding but also in the development of historical traditions of Berlin.
Conclusion
By now, hopefully, it should be evident that guides have a duty of ensuring that they preserve Berlin’s history. They make history come alive and maintain it by their experience and what they have learned about the subject. They give the background to landmarks and tell people’s stories that would not have been discovered otherwise. In addition, it is a fact that present day tour guides play a proactive role in projecting Berlins cultural identity. Thus, having familiarised ourselves with the importance of tour guides in Berlin, one should take this activity into account during the its further visits.
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