Sandy Al Assi, Author at Secret Berlin

Lifestyle editor with a great passion for art, culture and gastronomy. Whether it's city guides with the best things to do or the latest events in your city - you can rely on my words! With a keen sense for everything that makes life more beautiful, I invite you to rediscover your city through my texts.

Hailey Bieber’s favorite sportswear brand from Los Angeles is coming to Berlin: ALO YOGA is opening its first store in Germany and celebrated the opening with a 5-km run

Sporty, stylish, and ready for street style: Fashion fans were able to browse one of Germany’s largest antique and design markets just last weekend, but the next highlight is already on the horizon. A bra...

Visit Berlin

In 1929, with 24 escalators, a 4,000 m² rooftop garden, and 8 freight elevators for trucks, it was the largest department store in the Weimar Republic.

Once one of the toughest clubs in the world, today a Berlin bunker housing a private art collection: Some buildings in the capital tell stories that very few would suspect lie behind their current facades...

Culture Visit Berlin

The hidden rooms of an underground vaulted cellar are opening for free for the first time for 5 weeks—more than 30 stories recount Berlin’s club history

Experiencing clubs in Berlin is easy—after all, there are plenty of them. There’s something for every taste, and it’s no wonder Berlin’s club scene is world-renowned: from legendary icons like Berghain to...

Things to do Wellness & nature

The M45 bus line takes you to a wildlife enclosure on the outskirts of Berlin, where you can feed reindeer with apples you’ve brought along

If you’re looking to go from a direct bus ride from the city center to being suddenly surrounded by nature, you’ll find a sprawling forest idyll on the outskirts of Berlin. The M45 bus line from Zoologi...

Music Visit Berlin

On the banks of the Spree stands a reed temple surrounded by greenery, where once a month a meditative sound experience with a 360-degree sound system takes place in an almost sacred atmosphere

When the noise of the big city gets to be too much, we sometimes long for some peace and quiet in nature and the feeling of being far away from Berlin. Whether it’s a trip to one of Germany’s most popular...

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Berlin’s “Schlange” is a 600-meter-long residential complex in which 2,200 apartments hover above an integrated highway

When we think about the housing situation in Berlin, it’s not just the limited number of apartments that’s a problem, but above all the high rents. Just recently, however, it was announced that starting i...

Visit Berlin

On the edge of the Tiergarten stands the 120-meter-long “Pink Tube”—an icon of Berlin’s Pop Art architecture and the world’s largest recirculation tank

Impressive buildings and extraordinary architecture are no rarity in Berlin. A Berlin bunker that was known about 30 years ago as the “hardest club in the world” because of its fetish and fantasy parties...

Culture Things to do

Rave o’clock: The 6 Best Berlin Techno Clubs You Have to Experience

If Berlin is known for one thing, it’s its music scene. People from all over the world travel to the German capital to experience for themselves what everyone is talking about. It’s no coincidence that B...

Food & drink

This new Berlin café is reminiscent of an F1® pit stop, featuring a futuristic espresso machine inspired by a V8 engine, made of 3D elements and sporting a motor-inspired design.

You definitely won’t have to go without unique dining spots in Berlin. After all, the capital is anything but boring or mainstream. Every day, a new spot opens somewhere, surprising us and letting us disc...

Things to do

Around 700 vendors will gather this weekend in Berlin at one of Germany’s largest antique and design markets

Feeling the urge to really browse and snag a bargain or two again? Then this weekend is the perfect opportunity. There’s a lot going on in Berlin right now when it comes to shopping—for example, with the o...