CCD BVI photometry of the faint open clusters Berkeley~73, Berkeley~75 and Berkeley~25 are presented. The two latter are previously unstudied clusters to our knowledge. While Berkeley~73 is found to be of intermediate-age (about 1.5 Gyr old), Berkeley~75 and Berkeley~25 are two old clusters, with ages larger than 3.0 Gyr. We provide also estimates of the clusters size. Very interestingly, all these clusters turn out to lie far away from the Galactic Center, at $R_{GC} geq$ 16 kpc, and quite high onto the Galactic plane, at $|Z_{odot}| geq 1.5$ kpc. They are therefore important targets to probe the properties of the structure of the Galaxy in this direction, where the Canis Major over-density has been recently discovered to be located.
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