The Bavarian capital has more to offer than Oktoberfest and Newtys in the English garden.
This charming south German city lovingly nicknamed the most northern Italian town can cheer
up any kind of traveler.
To start with, there is, of course, the Bear.
Throughout the city, your nose will encounter the scent of molten hops again and again.
In the spring and summer, countless bear gardens offer cool shade and communal tables under
the mandatory chestnut trees.
Enjoy the bike trails, street cafes, and boutiques.
At night, simply relish, there are two opera houses, several highly acclaimed theaters,
and depending on your taste, there are unbunctious bear halls and trendy nightclubs.
Ah, and let's me forget, the Alps are just a hop skip and a jump away.
The thing about Germany, though, is that I'm excited to see what life is like in a country
after it wins the World Cup.
I'm excited to see what life is like in a country after it wins the World Cup.
It seems that in Munich, all roads lead to the Marienplatz.
On some days, the city center, always bustling, is positively bursting at the seams.
Every day at 11 a.m. and noon, the clock chimes at the new city hall with moving characters
and themes from the history of Munich, which delight hundreds of onlookers.
Munich's most visible landmark has attracted the gaze of onlookers for centuries, thanks
to its distinctive onion domes as well as its sheer size.
Around 2,000 people standing upright can supposedly fit in the cathedral of our dear
lady.
The ballroom in the old town hall with its imposing wooden barrel vaulting is still
used for prestigious receptions.
The building is also home to the toy museum.
Old Peter, one of the oldest buildings in Munich, there was a chapel on the Petersburg
Hill long before the city was founded.
An interesting combination of Romanistic, Gothic, and Baroque and Rococo has grown out
of those early beginnings.
This is the oldest museum in Munich, King Ludwig I's famous antique collection opened
its doors in 1830, a magnificent collection of European sculpture in one of Germany's
most important classical buildings.
The building constructed in Doritz order was completed by Leo von Klens in 1862 and evokes
the monumental entrance of the Propolaea at the Athenian Acropolis.
The state collections of antiques is a museum for the Bavarian state's antique collections
for Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art.
St. Michael the Jesuit Church here in Munich is the largest Renaissance church north of
the Alps.
The style of the building had an enormous influence on southern Germany's early Baroque
architecture.
We walked right the way across the seabed, it was quite a long way from the land to the
island but the tide was out.
The Catholic Parisian University Church St. Louis also called Ludwig's Kirch in Munich
is a monumental church in neo-Romanistic style with the second-largest alter-fresh-gold of
the world.
I'll come back tomorrow.
