Munich

National theatre München

City of world reputation

City tour to Munich from 165 € p.p.

Cultural tour to Munich:

"Living traditions in Bavaria"


-> Why you should travel to Munich

-> Highlights

-> Travel excursions and ideas

-> Arriving


München

Why you should travel to Munich:

 
 

- October Festival, Hofbräuhaus brewery, beer gardens
- more than one hundred museums and galleries, e.g. Old, New and Modern Pinakothek galleries
- fifty theatres, two operas and three symphony orchestras
- European centre of culture
- Royal Residence - the largest urban castle in Germany
- English Garden - the “green heart” of Munich
- Technical Museum – the world’s largest technical-scientific museum
- an exciting metropolis that maintains close ties with its local and regional traditions

Highlights in Munich:

2011
21.04.-30.04.  Ballet Festival Week
28.05.  Long Night of Music
8.06.-19.06.  Founding Day
26.06.-31.07.  Munich Opera Festival
16.07.-17.07.  Classical music on the Odeonsplatz Square (open-air)
09.09.-11.09.  OPEN ART (Munich galleries)
17.09.-03.10.  Munich Oktoberfest
25.11.-24.12.  Munich “Christkindl“ Christmas Market
21.11.-24.12  Augsburg “Christkindl“ Christmas Market
09.10.  Munich Marathon
2012
April 2012  Ballet Festival Week
19.05.  Long Night of Music
16.-17.06.  Founding Day
July 2012  Munich Opera Festival
July 2012  Classical music on the Odeonsplatz Square (open-air)
07.09.-09.09.  OPEN ART (Munich galleries)
22.09.-07.10  Munich Oktoberfest
30.11.-24.12.  Munich “Christkindl“ Christmas Market
26.11.-24.12.  Augsburg “Christkindl“ Christmas Market

Travel excursions and ideas: 

Art: Old, New and Modern Pinakothek galleries, Lenbachhaus gallery (incl. works by the Blue Rider circle), Schack Gallery, Museum Villa Stuck, Jewish Museum

History: German Museum, Dachau Concentration Camp

Music and Theatre: Bavarian State Opera, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Cuvilliés Theatre, Prinzregententheater

Tradition: Bavarian evening in a cosy brewpub with Alpenhorn blowers, yodellers, shoe-slapping dancers and a traditional cold-warm buffet

Classical Culture: Glyptothek sculpture gallery, State Collections of Antique Art and State Museum of Egyptian Art

Sport: Olympic Park (incl. Olympic Stadium and Olympic Tower), Allianz Arena

Sacred Buildings: Church of Our Lady (Munich Cathedral), Theatine Church (a collegiate church), St. Peter’s Church

Castle, parks and gardens: Royal Residence, English Garden (horse-drawn carriage rides possible), Nymphenburg Castle and Park (incl. the Amalienburg hunting lodge), Botanical Gardens, Schleißheim Palaces

Christmas: “Christkindl” Christmas Market

Excursions from Munich: Lake Chiemsee, incl. boat trip and visit to the New Castle on Herrenchiemsee Island; Royal palaces, incl. Neuschwanstein Castle; Hohenschwangau and Linderhof; Garmisch-Partenkirchen with Zugspitze (Germany's highest summit); Oberammergau; the Pilgrimage Church of the Scourged Saviour and Ettal Abbey; Augsburg incl. the Town Hall, Golden Hall (a “must-see”!), Kurhaus Theatre, Fugger City Palace and Mozart’s House; Berchtesgaden/ Königssee incl. the Kehlsteinhaus, a boat trip on the Königssee lake and a visit to the St. Bartholomä pilgrimage monastery; Passau, incl. the Veste Oberhaus Museum and a “three-river” boat trip

Arriving:

Anreise per Flugzeug Munich Airport, approx. 24 miles north of the city centre
Anreise per Bus/Pkw via the A8 (Stuttgart-Salzburg) and A9 (to Nuremberg)
motorways
Anreise per Bahn long-distance connections to all major German and European cities, arrival into Munich main station (city centre)




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