# Munich: map, what to do and when to go

Munich is the capital of Bavaria, with its beer gardens, the Kunstareal museums, the Englischer Garten and Oktoberfest. Expensive and orderly, it was rebuilt on its medieval plan after the war, and the Alps, 60–80 km away, are visible from downtown only on a few days a year.

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## Direct answer
- **Munich: Does the zone M ticket work to get to the airport?** No: the trip crosses up through zone 5, and the inspector travels in plain clothes and charges €60 with no discussion.
- **Munich: How do you visit the Dachau Memorial?** The memorial is 16 km to the north: S2 from the central station to Dachau (about 25 min) and bus 726 to the Gedenkstätte (about 10 min), on a ticket beyond zone M.
- **Munich: Is the city expensive for a traveler?** Yes: Munich is Germany's most expensive city, and you feel it from the first coffee.

## The rebuilt center and the market
Get to Marienplatz at 10:45am for the 11am Glockenspiel and take the elevator up the Neues Rathaus tower before the line grows.
- Marienplatz and the Neues Rathaus
- Frauenkirche
- Viktualienmarkt
- Residenz and Schatzkammer
- Asamkirche

## Museums, memory, and the river
Walk into the Alte Pinakothek at opening time to see Dürer's 1500 self-portrait and Altdorfer's “Battle of Alexander”; on Sundays admission is usually €1.
- Englischer Garten and the Eisbach wave
- Kunstareal: the Pinakotheken, Brandhorst, and Lenbachhaus

## Palace, the Games, and the Isar's banks
Take tram 17 early to Nymphenburg to see the palace, the Gallery of Beauties and the Amalienburg in the park, with a walk along the canals.
- Schloss Nymphenburg
- Deutsches Museum
- Olympiapark and BMW Welt

## Marienplatz and the Neues Rathaus
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Altstadt-Lehel
The central square since 1158 and the neo-Gothic city hall, built in three stages between 1867 and 1909 by Georg von Hauberrisser, with an 85 m tower and an elevator up to the lookout. The 1908 Glockenspiel has 43 bells and 32 life-size figures and plays at 11am and noon year-round, plus 5pm from March to October; the show lasts about 12 minutes and reenacts the 1568 wedding and the coopers' dance.
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## Frauenkirche
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Munique · Up to half an hour
A brick cathedral built between 1468 and 1488 by Jörg von Halsbach, with standing room for 20,000 in a city that then had 13,000 residents. The two towers, nearly 99 m tall, got their onion-shaped domes in 1525 and shape the city center’s skyline; on the vestibule floor is the mark known as the Teufelstritt, the devil's footprint.
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## Viktualienmarkt
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Altstadt-Lehel
An open-air market since 1807, when Maximilian I Joseph had the food stalls removed from Marienplatz. There are about 140 stalls across 22,000 m², with cheese, spices, honey, fish, and the spiral-cut radish; the beer garden at its center pours, in rotation, one of the city's six breweries every six weeks.
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## Residenz and Schatzkammer
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The Wittelsbach palace from 1385 to 1918, expanded by almost every ruler: 130 rooms open to visitors and ten courtyards. The Antiquarium, from 1568–1571, is 66 m long and the largest Renaissance hall north of the Alps; the Treasury holds Kunigunde's crown (about 1280) and the gold-and-enamel St. George of 1586, and the 1751–1755 Cuvilliés-Theater is the city's best-preserved rococo interior.
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## Asamkirche
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Munique · Up to half an hour
The Church of St. John Nepomuk, at Sendlinger Straße 32, built between 1733 and 1746 by the Asam brothers as a private chapel next to their own house. It's about 8 m wide by 22 m long and holds the whole of Bavarian rococo in a small space: from a shopping street you step straight into a dark interior covered in gold, marble and frescoes.
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## Englischer Garten and the Eisbach wave
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A public park created by decree in 1789, designed by Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, covering 375 ha: more than Central Park. It has the 1790 Chinesischer Turm and its beer garden of about 7,000 seats, the 1836 Monopteros, and the Eisbach's standing wave, where surfers take turns by order of arrival; the wave was closed for long stretches after a fatal accident in April 2025, so check its status before counting on it.
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## Schloss Nymphenburg
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Neuhausen-Nymphenburg
A summer palace begun in 1664 to mark the birth of heir Max Emanuel, with a facade about 700 m long and a 180 ha park. Inside is the Gallery of Beauties, with 36 portraits commissioned by Ludwig I, and in the park the Amalienburg (1734–1739), François de Cuvilliés's hunting lodge with its hall of mirrors, one of the high points of European rococo.
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## Kunstareal: the Pinakotheken, Brandhorst, and Lenbachhaus
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Seven museums within a few blocks of Maxvorstadt. The Alte Pinakothek (1836, Klenze) holds Dürer's 1500 self-portrait and Altdorfer's “Battle of Alexander”; the Pinakothek der Moderne (2002) brings together art, design, and architecture; the Lenbachhaus holds the largest Blaue Reiter collection, thanks to the roughly 1,000 works Gabriele Münter donated in 1957. The Neue Pinakothek has been closed for a long renovation since 2019, with part of its collection shown at the Alte; on Sundays entry to the state collections usually costs €1.
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## Deutsches Museum
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Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt · One to two hours
Founded on June 28, 1903, by Oskar von Miller and housed on an Isar island since 1925, it's the world's largest science and technology museum by exhibition area, with reconstructed underground mines, hanging aircraft, and a planetarium. The first half of the building reopened, renovated, in July 2022, and the second half remains under construction until around 2028: part of the sections stays closed.
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## Olympiapark and BMW Welt
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Milbertshofen-Am Hart
The park of the 1972 Games, with Frei Otto and Günter Behnisch's acrylic-and-cable canopy, the stadium, the artificial lake, and the 291 m tower with a lookout at 190 m. Across the street stand BMW's 1972 headquarters (the four-cylinder building), the museum, and the 2007 BMW Welt, which is free to enter.
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**Munich: Does the zone M ticket work to get to the airport?**
No: the trip crosses up through zone 5, and the inspector travels in plain clothes and charges €60 with no discussion.

**Munich: How do you visit the Dachau Memorial?**
The memorial is 16 km to the north: S2 from the central station to Dachau (about 25 min) and bus 726 to the Gedenkstätte (about 10 min), on a ticket beyond zone M. Admission is free, and the visit calls for a full half day.

**Munich: Is the city expensive for a traveler?**
Yes: Munich is Germany's most expensive city, and you feel it from the first coffee. In 2026, coffee costs €3.50 to 5, a Brezn €1.20 to 2, a Leberkässemmel €3.50 to 5, a simple lunch at a Gaststätte €14 to 22, dinner with a beer €25 to 40, and a Maß at the beer garden €10 to 12.50, against €14.80 to 15.90 at the Oktoberfest.

**Munich: Does the weather change a lot over the course of a day?**
Yes: the climate, continental with Alpine influence, sometimes changes within the same afternoon; in summer thunderstorms arrive at the end of the day, and the Föhn can raise the temperature several degrees in a few hours, in any season.

**Munich: How do you say hi and bye without sounding like an outsider?**
“Servus” works for arriving and for leaving; “Tschüss” is from the north and is acceptable, but it gives you away as an outsider.


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## Full editorial guide (Portuguese)
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