Altstadt

Munich centre, Marienplatz, New town hall with Glockenspiel, Dallmayr, Alter Peter, Viktualienmarkt, pedestrian precinct, Frauenkirche

Schwabing

Nightlife district, many restaurants, bars and theatres, Leopoldstraße, Maximilianstraße, Siegestor, Münchner Freiheit, English Garden, Ludwig-Maximilian-University

Maxvorstadt

Universities, Museums, Pinakothek, Königsplatz, Munich Stock Exchange

Haidhausen

Cultural quarter, Gasteig, Philharmonie, City Library, Muffatwerk, Müller'sches Volksbad, many small shops, cafés and bars

Bogenhausen

Friedensengel, Arabellapark, Prinzregententheater, Feinkost Käfer, Villa Stuck, Isar Hochufer

Riem

Trade fair city with Munich Trade Fair Centre / ICM / MOC, BuGa Park with BuGa swimming lake, trotting track, shopping centre Riem Arcaden

Traditional Costume: Dirndl & Lederhosen

Lederhosen and Dirndl belong to Bavaria like beer and the white-blue sky. Even while many locals own a dirndl or lederhosen, the traditional costume fashion is hardly worn in everyday life.
But on special occasions such as festivals, weddings or the cattle drive(here in the picture: Everyone helps with the 'Almabtrieb' in the Allgäu) one likes to dress in traditional costume and also in countless regional costume associations the Bavarian culture is lived and continued. In addition, a cultural highlight is the annual dance of the Markfrauen at the Viktualienmarkt and the Maypole festivals in the Bavarian villages, as well as the Schäfflertanz at the Chinese Tower every four years.

The costume for the woman consists of:
Dirndl (short or long, consisting of bodice top and skirt)
Traditional blouse (white)
Apron
Shoes matching the Dirndl

Accessories for women:
Collar
Traditional hat
Dirndl bra

Tip for the woman:
The position of the apron bow (seen from the woman) is very important.
Loop left = single, take up allowed/ desired
Loop right = married or in a relationship
loop middle = virgin
bow back = widowed or waitress

The costume for the man consists of:
Leather trousers (short or long)
Traditional shirt (white or plaid)
Knee socks or "Loferl" (calf warmers)
Haferl Shoes

Accessories for the man:
Scarf
Traditional hat
Belly strap

Tip for the man:
The Lederhosen is not being cleaned! Rather it should build a certain patina in the course of time. Bad or unwanted stains can of course be washed off (with a lot of care). For this there is a leather eraser or a leather brush.

Tip for children:
There are also very nice children's dirndls and leather trousers!

The Art of Brewing

The Bavarian art of brewing is world famous. This is not least due to the Bavarian purity law, which only allows hops, malt, yeast and water as ingredients for brewing beer.
The largest and oldest breweries in Munich are: Augustiner, Hacker Pschorr, Hofbräu, Löwenbräu, Paulaner, Spaten.
In addition, more and more small, so-called "microbreweries" - small breweries with innovative new types of beer (craft beer) - have established themselves in recent years: Giesinger Bräu, Riechelbräu, Brauerei im Eiswerk, Hoppebräu, Camba Bavaria, Wampenbräu, Crew Republic, and much more.

Typical beers
The great variety of the different types of beer alone gives an idea of the long beer brewing tradition in Munich and Bavaria. The different types of beer include: Light beer, Export light beer, Export dark beer, Pils (rather rare in Bavaria), Light wheat beer, Crystal wheat beer, Hefeweizen light beer, Hefeweizen dark beer, Märzen beer, Bock beer, Doppelbock beer, Light beer, Schwarzbier beer, Oktoberfest beer.
The clear-yellow "Helles" and the golden-cloudy wheat beer "Hefeweizen Hell" are probably the most frequently drunk beers.

Tip:
On hot summer days, the particularly refreshing "Radler" is often drunk as a mixed drink. Half of it consists of Hellem beer and half of lemonade - currently especially popular as "Radler Naturtrüb".

Experience beer
Beer is a staple food in Bavaria. It is drunk all year round and is already available in Germany for young people aged 16 and over.
The Oktoberfest in the last two weeks of September and the Starkbierfest at Nockherberg in March are particularly well known beer serving dates.

Tips:
Further information on the beer brewing tradition can be found, for example, in the Munich Beer and Oktoberfest Museum (Sterneckerstraße 2, Di-Sa 13-18, www.bier-und-oktoberfestmuseum.de).
In addition, many breweries offer guided tours and beer brewing courses - a real experience!

Food

Bavarian cuisine offers a wide range of regional specialities that are well known far beyond Bavaria. For figure-conscious eaters, most dishes are to be enjoyed with caution, but those who get involved with the hearty dishes are usually delighted with crispy roasts, spicy sauces, soft dumplings.

Baking:
"Pretzels" (lye pastries)
"Semmeln" (small white bread rolls)
Various types of bread (not only white bread!)

Hearty meals:
Roast pork with dumplings (Bavarian "Roast pork with bread dumplings")
Roast duck with red cabbage and potato dumplings
Roast ox (knuckle of pork) with dumplings
liver dumpling soup
Schupfnudeln with sauerkraut

Snacks:
White sausage (with sweet mustard and pretzels as bread time)
Leberkäs (cooked sausage variety)
Various other sausage specialities
Meatballs (fried minced meat)
Sausage salad (cold salad from sausage strips, often with fresh bread)
Cabbage salad (cold white cabbage salad)
potato salad

Desserts:
Dampfnudeln with vanilla sauce
apple strudel
Plum gingerbread (plum sheet cake)

Tips:
On sunny days, visitors to Munich are drawn to the numerous beer gardens. Here, people eat outdoors at beer tables, mostly self-service.
Munich, like in the rest of theworld, there is a great demand for vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free food. Accordingly in the meantime the options for these are many.
Further information on Bavarian cuisine can be found here at Wikipedia.

City Wall

The original city wall (in the picture above: copper engraving from the year 1642 by Matthäus Merian the Elder) is still preserved today in numerous places, for example:

Sendlinger Tor
Karlstor
Isartor
Pulverturm
Laimtor
Roter Turm
Jungfernturmstraße
Lueg ins Land
Maxtor
Thomas-Wimmer-Ring

Schloss Nymphenburg

Nymphenburg Palace, seen on the photo above in the snow-covered winter, lies in the west of Munich and served the rulers as a summer residence in 1662 - at that time still two hours away from the much smaller Munich.

The large palace garden (Schlosspark Nymphenburg) with its park castles (Amalienburg, Badeburg, Pagodenburg, Magdalenenklause) - once laid out as a baroque park and constantly extended over the centuries - has today become a landscape garden worth seeing, inviting you to take long walks.

Nymphenburg Palace
80638 Munich, Germany
Opening hours castle: April to mid-October 9-18 o'clock, mid-October to March 10-16 o'clock
Opening hours park: November to March: 6-18 h, April and October 6-20 h, May to September, 6-21:30 h
Phone: +49 89 179080
Website: www.schloss-nymphenburg.de
App of the palace park: iOS / Android

Alter Peter

When it comes to Munich churches, the first thing you think of is of course the Frauenkirche. But that's not what this tip is about. The parish church of St. Peter (called "Alter Peter" = Old Peter) is also one of Munich's landmarks and is known above all for its tower ascent. But attention: For the 306 steps up to the viewing platform you should bring some puff!

St. Peter
Cattle market 1
80331 Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 89 210237760
Website: Erzbistum München

Gasteig

The Gasteig is a large cultural centre in Munich. Various cultural events take place here every day. The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra plays here in the acoustically outstanding Hercules Hall (which was once the throne hall of King Ludwig I). The Gasteig also hosts the annual film festival.

Gasteig Munich
Rosenheimer Street 5
81667 Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 89 480980
Website: www.gasteig.de
Tickets: MünchenTicket

Deutsches Theater München

The Deutsches Theater focuses on musicals and shows such as West Side Story, Cats or Die drei Fragezeichen. The theatre has a theatre hall with over 1500 seats.

German Theatre
Schwanthaler road 13
80336 Munich, Germany
Phone (Tickets): +49 89 55234444

National Theater

Centrally located in Munich, the Bavarian State Opera performs its works in Germany's largest opera house. The National Theatre is also home to the Bavarian State Ballet, the chamber concerts of the Bavarian State Orchestra. In addition, the annual opera festivals take place directly in front of the Nationaltheater.

Bavarian State Opera - National Theatre
Max Joseph Square 2
80539 Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 89 218501
Website with schedule of plays: www.staatsoper.de

The English Garden is the "green soul" of Munich. It is a huge natural area, 375 ha in size, with an extremely high recreational value and is one of the largest parks in the world. In the south of the English Garden you can watch the daredevil surfers at the Eisbachwelle, in the north there is the Kleinhesseloher See with boat rental and the Seehaus. Also well known are the Monopteros (see picture above) and the Chinesische Turm.

Flaucher

The "Flaucher" is a popular local recreation area on the Isar - in the middle of Munich! In addition to sandbanks, barbecue areas and sunbathing lawns, there is also a great beer garden - the restaurant "Zum Flaucher".

Flaucher
Isarauen (Isar floodplains)
81379 Munich-Sendling

Olympic Park

The Olympic Park - once the site of the 1972 Olympic Games - has since then offered a lot of greenery, a lake with a lake stage, the Olympic Mountain and long walks. The Olympic Park is also home to the Olympic Hall, the Olympic Tower, the Olympic Stadium, the Olympic Swimming Hall and much more.
There are regular event highlights in the Olympic Park, such as the Tollwood Summer Festival and the impark Summer Festival.

Olympiapark München GmbH
Spiridon-Louis-Ring 21
80809 München
Telefon: +49 89 30670
Email: info@olympiapark.de
Website with calendar of events: www.olympiapark.de

Deutsches Museum

Munich is rich in famous and museums worth visiting. It is difficult to name just one, so here we mention the most important ones: Ägyptisches Museum (Egyptian Museum), Museum Mensch und Natur,(Museum of Man and Nature) Verkehrszentrum(Traffic Centre), Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie(Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology), Deutsches Theatermuseum(German Theatre Museum), Die Pinakotheken, Museum Reich der Kristalle(Kingdom of Crystals)), Kinder- und Jugendmuseum München(Children's and Youth Museum Munich).

The Deutsches Museum is one of the best-known museums in Germany. It shows masterpieces of natural science and technology as well as changing exhibitions on special topics. A special highlight is the theme tour "Mine", which takes the visitor deep underground.
Tip: For children there is also the very special "Children's Kingdom", including a water playground and a walkable guitar.

Deutsches Museum
Museumsinsel 1
80538 München
Opening hours: daily 9-17 hours
Phone: +49 89 217 9333
Website: www.deutsches-museum.de

Hellabrunn Zoo

The Munich Zoo "Tierpark Hellabrunn" is located in the district of Thalkirchen and fascinates with its great biodiversity. Polar bears, lions, tigers, monkeys, giraffes, flamingos, sea lions, turtles ... the list of animals to marvel at is of course much too long for our short tip here. Therefore our advice: Find out for yourself which animals there are still to see. Hellabrunn Zoo is worth a visit at any time of the year with its large outdoor area, numerous theme houses, beer garden and adventure playground for young and old!

Hellabrunn Zoo
"Isar entrance" (subway U3 "Thalkirchen"): Tierparkstraße
"Flamingo entrance" (car parks): Siebenbrunner Straße
81543 Munich
Opening hours: April-October 9-18 h, November-March 9-17 h
Phone: +49 89 625080
Website: www.hellabrunn.de

Botanical Garden

It blooms, it grows, it ranches - the Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg cultivates around 16,000 plant species on an area of more than 21 hectares. The more than 4,500 m² of greenhouses also offer a warm atmosphere in winter or in rainy weather. And so you will also find desert plants, bromeliads and araceae, tropical crops, orchids and much more! Are you planning to visit Nymphenburg Castle and its park? Then simply extend your excursion, because the Botanical Garden is located directly at the palace park and can also be entered via it (southern entrance). Exciting guided tours are also offered (advance reservation is often necessary!).

Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg
Main entrance: Menzinger Strßae 65
South entrance: Maria-Ward-Straße or via Schlosspark Nymphenburg
80638 Munich, Germany
Opening hours: slightly different per month and area, from 9 am until 4 pm 30/17/18/7 pm
Phone: +49 89 17861316
Website: www.botmuc.de

BMW World

BMW Welt - built in 2007 - is an exhibition centre, delivery centre and experience and event location. For all big and small car and motorcycle fans there is a lot to see and experience here.

BMW Welt
Am Olympiapark 1
80809 München
Telefon: +49 89 125016001
Website: www.bmw-welt.com

Olympic Tower with revolving restaurant

The 291 m high Olympic Tower in Munich is a television tower and is one of the most famous landmarks of the city. It stands on the eastern edge of the Olympic Park and offers a viewing platform (190 m) and a revolving restaurant (181 m, slow turn, one turn lasts 53 minutes) where you can enjoy a panoramic view of the whole city while eating.

Olympic Tower
Spiridon Louis Ring 7
Olympic Park
80992 Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 89 30672750
Website: www.olympiapark.de

FC Bayern World of Experience

The Allianz Arena in the north of Munich is the venue of the FC Bayern football club. The stadium is also well worth a visit away from the game, as it is home to the FC Bayern Erlebniswelt. Discover the history, the stars and the successes of the record champion and shop for everything that makes a footballer's heart beat faster.

FC Bayern World of Experience
Werner-Heisenberg-Allee 25
Allianz Arena
80839 Munich, Germany
phone: +49 89 69931222
Website with opening hours: fcbayern.com