Guidebook for Munich

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Guidebook for Munich

Drinks & Nightlife

Great local bar/restaurant. Free wifi and friendly staff. Very kid friendly.
Trappentreustraße 23
23 Trappentreustraße
Great local bar/restaurant. Free wifi and friendly staff. Very kid friendly.
The Augustiner beer garden, great atmosphere in summer, well worth a visit.
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Augustinerkeller
52 Arnulfstraße
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The Augustiner beer garden, great atmosphere in summer, well worth a visit.
Irish pub by the Frauenkirche, great for a quick pint if you're in town. A stone's throw from Marienplatz.
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Kilians Irish Pub
11 Frauenplatz
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Irish pub by the Frauenkirche, great for a quick pint if you're in town. A stone's throw from Marienplatz.
Irish pub near the Gasteig concert hall.
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Molly Malones
21 Kellerstraße
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Irish pub near the Gasteig concert hall.
Top notch hotel - but has a great rooftop bar open to the public with amazing views of Munich. If it rains they will give you a free umbrella when you leave.
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Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Munich
2-6 Promenadepl.
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Top notch hotel - but has a great rooftop bar open to the public with amazing views of Munich. If it rains they will give you a free umbrella when you leave.

Everything Else

The annual beer festival is the world's largest and has been going since 1810. It's also a huge fun fair and is suitable for the whole family http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/
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Münchner Oktoberfest
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The annual beer festival is the world's largest and has been going since 1810. It's also a huge fun fair and is suitable for the whole family http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/
Fountain you can run through in summer, ice skating and Christmas market in winter. Stone's throw from the main station, top of the main pedestrianised shopping street, Kaufingerstrasse.
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Karlsplatz
Karlsplatz
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Fountain you can run through in summer, ice skating and Christmas market in winter. Stone's throw from the main station, top of the main pedestrianised shopping street, Kaufingerstrasse.
You can hang out here or go for a swim in the river on hot days. Small kiosk on the bridge sells drinks including cold beer.
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Frühlingsanlagen
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You can hang out here or go for a swim in the river on hot days. Small kiosk on the bridge sells drinks including cold beer.
Munich's 1972 Olympics were held here, the hills in the park are the original rubble from the bombings of WWII. Go up the Olympic Tower! It revolves and is brilliant on a clear day!
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Olympiapark
21 Spiridon-Louis-Ring
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Munich's 1972 Olympics were held here, the hills in the park are the original rubble from the bombings of WWII. Go up the Olympic Tower! It revolves and is brilliant on a clear day!
Germany's largest museum, it would take you about two weeks to see it all, but a great museum to dip into.
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Deutsches Museum
1 Museumsinsel
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Germany's largest museum, it would take you about two weeks to see it all, but a great museum to dip into.
Home to Bayern Munich and Munich's other football/soccer team - Munich 1860.
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Allianz Arena
25 Werner-Heisenberg-Allee
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Home to Bayern Munich and Munich's other football/soccer team - Munich 1860.
Take a day trip on the BOB train direct from Donnersbergerbrücke train station to lake Tegernsee. Amazing beer, beautiful views of the alps and fantastic walking/mountain climbing.
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Tegernsee
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Take a day trip on the BOB train direct from Donnersbergerbrücke train station to lake Tegernsee. Amazing beer, beautiful views of the alps and fantastic walking/mountain climbing.

Sightseeing

Munich's main square with the famous Glockenspiel. In winter there is a beautiful Christmas market here with a huge Christmas tree.
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Marienplatz
Marienplatz
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Munich's main square with the famous Glockenspiel. In winter there is a beautiful Christmas market here with a huge Christmas tree.
Famous square where Hitler used to make his speeches between the two lions. Take the Hitler walking tour here: http://www.munichwalktours.de/en/hitler%E2%80%99s-munich-third-reich-tour/
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Odeonsplatz
3 Odeonspl.
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Famous square where Hitler used to make his speeches between the two lions. Take the Hitler walking tour here: http://www.munichwalktours.de/en/hitler%E2%80%99s-munich-third-reich-tour/
Awesome river surfers, can be found here every single day of the year, no matter what the weather.
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Eisbachwelle
Prinzregentenstraße
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Awesome river surfers, can be found here every single day of the year, no matter what the weather.
Large art exhibitions can be found here - this is one of Munich's Nazi remnants. Look up when you are outside by the columns and you will see swastikas on the ceiling. http://www.hausderkunst.de/en/
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Haus der Kunst
1 Prinzregentenstraße
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Large art exhibitions can be found here - this is one of Munich's Nazi remnants. Look up when you are outside by the columns and you will see swastikas on the ceiling. http://www.hausderkunst.de/en/
The original fairy tale castle. Beautiful and well worth a visit and guided tour, but will take a day. Trips from Munich are offered daily. http://www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/tourist
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Slot Neuschwanstein
20 Neuschwansteinstraße
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The original fairy tale castle. Beautiful and well worth a visit and guided tour, but will take a day. Trips from Munich are offered daily. http://www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/tourist
Harrowing but worth a visit. The world famous Dachau concentration camp. http://www.munichwalktours.de/en/dachau-memorial-concentration-camp/
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Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
75 Alte Römerstraße
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Harrowing but worth a visit. The world famous Dachau concentration camp. http://www.munichwalktours.de/en/dachau-memorial-concentration-camp/
Dachau is a beautiful city with a palace at the top of the hill, which overlooks Munich. A must see if you are in the area or visiting the concentration camp.
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Dachau
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Dachau is a beautiful city with a palace at the top of the hill, which overlooks Munich. A must see if you are in the area or visiting the concentration camp.
Beautiful cathedral in the centre of Munich. You may walk in to a service going on. http://www.muenchner-dom.de/start Dare to put your foot in the devil's footprint at the back of the cathedral.
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Cathedral of Our Lady
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Beautiful cathedral in the centre of Munich. You may walk in to a service going on. http://www.muenchner-dom.de/start Dare to put your foot in the devil's footprint at the back of the cathedral.
Based on Versailles Palace, this is a beautiful palace set in stunning grounds.
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Slotpark Nymphenburg
1 Schloß Nymphenburg
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Based on Versailles Palace, this is a beautiful palace set in stunning grounds.
If you are feeling brave, climb the 299 steps to the top of this church for great views of Munich. Directly next door to the Viktualienmarkt.
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St. Peter's Church
1 Rindermarkt
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If you are feeling brave, climb the 299 steps to the top of this church for great views of Munich. Directly next door to the Viktualienmarkt.
Former palace of the king, recently refurbished and host to concerts and other events. Christmas market in winter.
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Munich Residenz
1 Residenzstraße
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Former palace of the king, recently refurbished and host to concerts and other events. Christmas market in winter.
Take a day trip to this beautiful alpine town, where the Passion Play has been performed every 10 years since 1634.
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Oberammergau
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Take a day trip to this beautiful alpine town, where the Passion Play has been performed every 10 years since 1634.
Museums and open spaces with open-air cinema in July.
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Konigsplatz
Konigsplatz
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Museums and open spaces with open-air cinema in July.

Food Scene

Great breakfast/brunch! http://www.cafe-westend.com/
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Cafe Westend Gaststättenbetriebs GmbH
50 Ganghoferstraße
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Great breakfast/brunch! http://www.cafe-westend.com/
Awesome brunch with live music Sunday mornings. Reservations a must, but worth it. Part of the Hotel Mariandl http://www.mariandl.com/en/
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Café am Beethovenplatz
51 Goethestraße
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Awesome brunch with live music Sunday mornings. Reservations a must, but worth it. Part of the Hotel Mariandl http://www.mariandl.com/en/
Munich's largest brewery, Augustiner (and not Löwenbräu as many think). Beer served straight from a wooden barrel. Great Bavarian food. Horses for the Oktoberfest stay in stables by the toilets.
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Augustiner Bräustuben
19 Landsberger Str.
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Munich's largest brewery, Augustiner (and not Löwenbräu as many think). Beer served straight from a wooden barrel. Great Bavarian food. Horses for the Oktoberfest stay in stables by the toilets.
Lovely Irish pub, food is standard pub grub. Gets busy at weekends.
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Kennedys Bar & Restaurant, Munich
11 Sendlinger-Tor-Platz
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Lovely Irish pub, food is standard pub grub. Gets busy at weekends.
Just inside the main station.
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Starbucks
15-16 Odeonspl.
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Just inside the main station.
Just because we all love a good coffee.
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Starbucks
15-16 Odeonspl.
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Just because we all love a good coffee.
Funky cafe that also sells awesome things.
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Aroma Kaffeebar
24 Pestalozzistraße
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Funky cafe that also sells awesome things.
Lovely cafe near the river.
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Hungriges Herz
42 Fraunhoferstraße
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Lovely cafe near the river.
Beer garden by a lake in the English Garden. Gets very busy on hot days.
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SEEHAUS im Englischen Garten
3 Kleinhesselohe
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Beer garden by a lake in the English Garden. Gets very busy on hot days.
Very popular beer garden, oompa music played in the Chinese Tower, great location in the middle of the English Garden.
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Biergarten am Chinesischen Turm
3 Englischer Garten
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Very popular beer garden, oompa music played in the Chinese Tower, great location in the middle of the English Garden.
Closest Indian restaurant and also one of the best in the city.
Royal India Restaurant
117 Westendstraße
Closest Indian restaurant and also one of the best in the city.
Amazing Mexican food, recommended by genuine Mexicans. If you're this way, pop in for a taco!
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CONDESA - Authentic Mexican Taste
6 Münchner Freiheit
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Amazing Mexican food, recommended by genuine Mexicans. If you're this way, pop in for a taco!
Very pricey but amazing Japanese restaurant, just off the main designer shopping street and next door to the Kempinski Four Seasons Hotel.
TOSHI Restaurant & Bar
18 Wurzerstraße
Very pricey but amazing Japanese restaurant, just off the main designer shopping street and next door to the Kempinski Four Seasons Hotel.
Beautiful, traditional coffee house where you can choose from a huge array of cakes.
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Café Luitpold
11 Brienner Str.
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Beautiful, traditional coffee house where you can choose from a huge array of cakes.
Famous beer hall where Hitler used to give his speeches, but generally overrun with tourists and bad service.
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Hofbräuhaus München
9 Platzl
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Famous beer hall where Hitler used to give his speeches, but generally overrun with tourists and bad service.
English-style tea shop, great food and yummy tea and cakes.
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The Victorian House Brown's Tea Bar
60 Türkenstraße
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English-style tea shop, great food and yummy tea and cakes.
Organic vegan restaurant. Amazing food, although reservations recommended. Also randomly close for private events, so check they're open.
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Gratitude Eatery Munich
55 Türkenstraße
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Organic vegan restaurant. Amazing food, although reservations recommended. Also randomly close for private events, so check they're open.
Great traditional Bavarian food, gets busy but worth it.
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Alter Simpl
57 Türkenstraße
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Great traditional Bavarian food, gets busy but worth it.
Bavarian restaurant where Hitler was banned for not paying his bill. Good food, pool tables and ping pong tables in the basement.
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Schelling-Salon
54 Schellingstraße
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Bavarian restaurant where Hitler was banned for not paying his bill. Good food, pool tables and ping pong tables in the basement.
New and funky coffee shop. Gorgeous chocolate cake.
La Vokue
137 Landsberger Straße
New and funky coffee shop. Gorgeous chocolate cake.
Cellar bar inspired by Bretcht's Three Penny Opera. Next door to the English cinema Lichtspiele, right by the river Isar.
Restaurant & Bar Dreigroschenkeller
2 Lilienstraße
Cellar bar inspired by Bretcht's Three Penny Opera. Next door to the English cinema Lichtspiele, right by the river Isar.
Cheap and cheerful Italian. Always worth a visit after shopping as it's right in the centre, then just hop on the tram 18 back home.
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Bella Italia
8 Herzog-Wilhelm-Straße
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Cheap and cheerful Italian. Always worth a visit after shopping as it's right in the centre, then just hop on the tram 18 back home.
Nice centrally located Italian restaurant. Not super cheap but good food and wine, and lovely outdoor area in summer.
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La Vecchia Masseria
3 Mathildenstraße
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Nice centrally located Italian restaurant. Not super cheap but good food and wine, and lovely outdoor area in summer.
Cheap and cheerful Chinese all you can eat lunchtime buffet, including sushi.
GoldenTea (China Express)
4 Sonnenstraße
Cheap and cheerful Chinese all you can eat lunchtime buffet, including sushi.
Nice Indian restaurant close to the English Cinema. Fast service if you're heading to a screening and only have limited time.
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Maharaja Indisches Restaurant
79 Blutenburgstraße
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Nice Indian restaurant close to the English Cinema. Fast service if you're heading to a screening and only have limited time.
Upmarket vegetarian restaurant.
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Prinz Myshkin
2 Hackenstraße
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Upmarket vegetarian restaurant.
Great Sunday buffet brunch with live jazz music.
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The Big Easy
46 Frundsbergstraße
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Great Sunday buffet brunch with live jazz music.

Entertainment & Activities

On hot summer days most of Munich descends here for sunbathing, relaxing and swimming in the ice cold stream.
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Eisbachwelle
Prinzregentenstraße
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On hot summer days most of Munich descends here for sunbathing, relaxing and swimming in the ice cold stream.
Europe's largest beer garden with fenced-off deer right next to it. Can be found in the middle of a park with playgrounds and ping pong tables. You can bring your own food to beer gardens.
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Königlicher Hirschgarten Restaurant & Biergarten & take away
1 Hirschgarten
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Europe's largest beer garden with fenced-off deer right next to it. Can be found in the middle of a park with playgrounds and ping pong tables. You can bring your own food to beer gardens.
Very central market and beer garden. Beautiful in all seasons.
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Victual Market Beergarden
9 Viktualienmarkt
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Very central market and beer garden. Beautiful in all seasons.
Swim in the river Isar and have a BBQ on the banks. Lots of groups of young people go here in summer, light bonfires and play music or sing songs. Also very family friendly. Really great location.
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Flaucher
8 Isarauen
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Swim in the river Isar and have a BBQ on the banks. Lots of groups of young people go here in summer, light bonfires and play music or sing songs. Also very family friendly. Really great location.
Free! And very popular with tourists. Also has a restaurant and shops for merchandise.
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BMW Welt
1 Am Olympiapark
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Free! And very popular with tourists. Also has a restaurant and shops for merchandise.
Alternative Christmas market on the site of the Oktoberfest. Amazing stalls where you will find all your Christmas presents. Opens at 2pm every day in December until Christmas Eve. Only organic food.
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Tollwood Winterfestival
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Alternative Christmas market on the site of the Oktoberfest. Amazing stalls where you will find all your Christmas presents. Opens at 2pm every day in December until Christmas Eve. Only organic food.
The summer version of the winter festival, held in a different location at the Olympic Park. Stalls, shows, it's a brilliant international family festival over two weeks. Only organic food.
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Tollwood Sommerfestival
20 Waisenhausstraße
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The summer version of the winter festival, held in a different location at the Olympic Park. Stalls, shows, it's a brilliant international family festival over two weeks. Only organic food.
Medieval Christmas market during the month of December with stage and entertainment for kids and adults. Amazing food.
Wittelsbacherplatz
Wittelsbacherplatz
Medieval Christmas market during the month of December with stage and entertainment for kids and adults. Amazing food.
Botanical gardens, with indoor as well as outdoor areas. Part of the palace of Nymphenburg.
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Botanischer Garten station
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Botanical gardens, with indoor as well as outdoor areas. Part of the palace of Nymphenburg.
Hop on the S-Bahn S6 to Starnberg, stop is right by the lake, you can swim here in summer, go to cafes or take a boat tour across the lake. King Ludwig II drowned in this lake, presumed murdered.
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Starnberger See
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Hop on the S-Bahn S6 to Starnberg, stop is right by the lake, you can swim here in summer, go to cafes or take a boat tour across the lake. King Ludwig II drowned in this lake, presumed murdered.
Munich Zoo!
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Munchener Tierpark Hellabrunn
30 Tierparkstraße
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Munich Zoo!
Organic, vegan ice cream. Sweetened with date juice rather than sugar. Amazing place!
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iceDate - The vegan organic Eismanufaktur
91 Amalienstraße
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Organic, vegan ice cream. Sweetened with date juice rather than sugar. Amazing place!
Annual medieval jousting tournament, great days out for the whole family, although it's not that close to Munich.
Schloss Kaltenberg Königliche Holding und Lizenz KG
8 Schloßstraße
Annual medieval jousting tournament, great days out for the whole family, although it's not that close to Munich.

Shopping

Munich's main shopping strip from Karlsplatz to Marienplatz.
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Kaufingerstraße
Kaufingerstraße
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Munich's main shopping strip from Karlsplatz to Marienplatz.
For the well-heeled, here you will find all designer stores you can imagine.
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Maximilianstraße
Maximilianstraße
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For the well-heeled, here you will find all designer stores you can imagine.
We love Tiffany's.
Tiffany & Co.
11 Perusastraße
We love Tiffany's.
Apple's flagship German store.
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Apple Rosenstraße
1 Rosenstraße
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Apple's flagship German store.
Discount retail park, coach there and back from outside the Sofitel hotel by the main station. http://www.ingolstadtvillage.com/en/home/home
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UGG
1 Otto-Hahn-Straße
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Discount retail park, coach there and back from outside the Sofitel hotel by the main station. http://www.ingolstadtvillage.com/en/home/home
Drugstore selling all the toiletries you can imagine. Directly next door to Lidl supermarket.
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dm-drogerie markt
65 Karl-Theodor-Straße
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Drugstore selling all the toiletries you can imagine. Directly next door to Lidl supermarket.

Arts & Culture

Concert venue if you are missing classical music.
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Gast
5 Rosenheimer Str.
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Concert venue if you are missing classical music.
English-language cinema showing the latest releases. Great cinema and close to home.
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Cinema Filmtheater
31 Nymphenburger Str.
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English-language cinema showing the latest releases. Great cinema and close to home.
This is actually a cinema showing mostly English-language films in tiny theatres. Quaint and awesome, it also has been showing the Rocky Horror Picture Show every Saturday since 1977.
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Kino Museum-Lichtspiele
2 Lilienstraße
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This is actually a cinema showing mostly English-language films in tiny theatres. Quaint and awesome, it also has been showing the Rocky Horror Picture Show every Saturday since 1977.
Concert venue and general rock club close to home.
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Backstage Concerts GmbH
6 Reitknechtstraße
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Concert venue and general rock club close to home.
Three museums next to each other - the old with old masters, new with impressionists and 20th century art, and the modern with photographic exhibitions and modern installations. Only 1 euro on Sundays
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Pinakotheken station
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Three museums next to each other - the old with old masters, new with impressionists and 20th century art, and the modern with photographic exhibitions and modern installations. Only 1 euro on Sundays