Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #13 in Munich, Germany

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 12.3 km
Ascend 156 m
Descend 141 m

Explore Munich in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in MunichIndividual Sights in Munich

Sight 1: Maximiliansplatz

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Maximiliansplatz

Maximiliansplatz is a park-like square in Munich, Germany, located on the border of the districts of Altstadt-Lehel and Maxvorstadt. It used to be known as Dultplatz. Maximiliansplatz is the northwestern part of Munich's Old Town Ring.

Wikipedia: Maximiliansplatz (DE)

341 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Börse München

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The Börse München is a stock exchange based in Munich, Germany. Founded in 1830, it currently lists over 6300 securities.

Wikipedia: Börse München (EN), Website

115 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Prinz-Georg-Palais

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The Prinz-Georg-Palais at Karolinenplatz 5 is a solitary building that is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian Monument List.

Wikipedia: Prinz-Georg-Palais (München) (DE)

124 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Karolinenplatz

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The obelisk on Karolinenplatz is a memorial in Munich. It was built in 1833 by King Ludwig I by the architect Leo von Klenze for the 30,000 Bavarian soldiers who had fallen in the Napoleonic Russian campaign of 1812.

Wikipedia: Obelisk am Karolinenplatz (DE)

73 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Staatssammlung für Anthropologie und Paläoanatomie

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The State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy in Munich is a research institution of the Bavarian State Natural History Collections, which is dedicated to the prehistory and early history of humans in Bavaria, including the animal world and the environment, on the basis of permanent physical relics, especially skeletons.

Wikipedia: Staatssammlung für Anthropologie und Paläoanatomie (DE), Website

102 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations

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The Amerikahaus is a cultural institution on Karolinenplatz in the Kunstareal Munich, which was opened in 1948 as the America House.

Wikipedia: Amerika-Haus (München) (DE), Website

200 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: NS-Dokumentationszentrum München

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The Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism – a place of learning and remembrance on the history of National Socialism is an institution of the City of Munich together with the Free State of Bavaria and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Wikipedia: NS-Dokumentationszentrum (München) (DE), Website

213 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Haus der Kulturinstitute

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Münchner Haus der Kulturinstitute is located in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

Wikipedia: Münchner Haus der Kulturinstitute (EN)

31 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 9: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung

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The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich (München), Germany, is a large collection of drawings, prints and engravings. It contains 400,000 sheets starting from the 15th century from various artists around the world. Along with Kupferstichkabinett Berlin and Kupferstichkabinett Dresden, it is the most important collection of its kind in Germany. It is owned by the government of Bavaria and located within the Kunstareal, a museum quarter in the city centre of Munich.

Wikipedia: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München (EN), Website

35 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 10: Museum für Abgüsse klassischer Bildwerke

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The Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke is located in the central Maxvorstadt district in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated, with a number of other cultural institutions, within the Münchner Haus der Kulturinstitute in Katharina-von-Bora-Straße, near the Königsplatz.

Wikipedia: Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke (EN), Website, Wheelchair Website

352 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Propyläen

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Propyläen MyName (Rufus46) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Propylaea is a city gate in Munich at the west side of Königsplatz.

Wikipedia: Propylaea (Munich) (EN)

377 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 12: Basilika St. Bonifaz

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St. Boniface's Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It was founded in 1835 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria, as a part of his efforts to reanimate the country's spiritual life by the restoration of the monasteries destroyed during the secularisation of the early 19th century.

Wikipedia: St. Boniface's Abbey (EN)

395 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 13: Delphinbrunnen

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Delphinbrunnen is located in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

Wikipedia: Delphinbrunnen (Munich) (EN)

1174 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 14: Postpalast

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Arnulfstraße 62 is a building complex in Munich's Maxvorstadt, which was used by the Deutsche Bundespost and Deutsche Post until the mid-2000s.

Wikipedia: Arnulfstraße 62 (DE)

1060 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 15: St. Benedikt

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St. Benedict's Church is a parish church in Munich, Germany, located in the Schwanthalerhöhe of the city.

Wikipedia: St. Benedict's Church, Munich (EN), Website

1096 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 16: Maria Heimsuchung

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Mariä Heimsuchung is a Catholic parish church in Munich, Germany. It was built from 1933 to 1934 in neo-Romanesque style by Oswald Bieber and government architect William Hollweck. The new building was necessary due to the strong growth of the mother parish of St. Rupert.

Wikipedia: Mariä Heimsuchung, Munich (EN), Website

1618 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 17: Zu den heiligen zwölf Aposteln

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To the Holy Twelve Apostles is a Catholic parish church in Munich, Germany. It belongs to the parish association of Laim in the deanery of Laim in the Archdiocese of Munich.

Wikipedia: Zu den heiligen zwölf Aposteln (München) (DE)

1951 meters / 23 minutes

Sight 18: Peterl-Brunnen

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This page gives an overview of fountains in the city of Munich that are open to the public. There are almost 700 fountains throughout Munich, 190 of which are operated by the City of Munich, others by the Free State of Bavaria or by public or private institutions. Most of the fountains are only for decoration; 125 municipal fountains are fed with drinking water, 48 wells are designated as official drinking fountains.

Wikipedia: Liste Münchner Brunnen (DE)

1989 meters / 24 minutes

Sight 19: Sankt-Leonhard-Kapelle (Stürzerkapelle)

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The Chapel of St. Leonhard is a church building of the Roman Catholic Church in Munich, Germany. It is dedicated to Saint Leonard of Limoges. The chapel is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.

Wikipedia: Leonhardskapelle (München) (DE)

1046 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 20: Erscheinung des Herrn

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The Roman Catholic parish church Apparition of the Lord in Munich's Blumenau district is a modern church building without a tower and thus also without church bells, which was built in 1969 and 1970. The patron saint Epiphany of the Lord refers to the solemnity of the same name, which is celebrated on January 6 and is popularly known as the Epiphany.

Wikipedia: Erscheinung des Herrn (München) (DE), Website

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