Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Munich, Germany

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Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 8 km
Ascend 135 m
Descend 123 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: Consulate general of Hungary, Munich

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Hungary's Consulate General of Hungary is one of the old consulating of Hungary: it opened in 1922 in the capital of Bavaria. The Mauerkrogrogstrasse 1a. The building was purchased in 2017 by the Hungarian state, formerly the Vollmannst. The representation worked 2nd. The Consul General has been Gábor Tordai-Lejkó since 2015.

Wikipedia: Magyarország müncheni főkonzulátusa (HU), Website, Facebook

837 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 2: Chinese Tower

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The Chinese Tower is a 25-metre wooden building resembling a pagoda at the Englischer Garten in Munich, Germany. The building was constructed from 1789 to 1790 and was opened to the public as an observation deck during the opening of the Englischer Garten in 1792. The tower burned down during the bombing of Munich during World War II and was reopened as a reconstruction in 1952. Today the tower is considered a landmark of the Englischer Garten.

Wikipedia: Chinese Tower (EN)

170 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Rumford-Haus

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The Englischer Garten is a large public park in the centre of Munich, Bavaria, stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city limits. It was created in 1789 by Sir Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), later Count Rumford, for Prince Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. Thompson's successors, Reinhard von Werneck (1757–1842) and Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (1750–1823), advisers on the project from its beginning, both extended and improved the park.

Wikipedia: Englischer Garten (EN), Url

1236 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 4: DenkStätte Weiße Rose

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The White Rose Memorial in the atrium of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich is a central place of remembrance on the history of the student resistance of the White Rose. It was opened in 1997 in cooperation between the White Rose Foundation and the university. Since then, people there have been gathering information about the White Rose resistance group; currently more than 40,000 a year, of which almost 40 percent come from abroad.

Wikipedia: DenkStätte Weiße Rose (DE), Website

698 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 5: Museum Brandhorst

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The Brandhorst Museum was opened in Munich on 21 May 2009. It displays about 200 exhibits from the modern art collection of the heirs of the Henkel trust Udo and Anette Brandhorst. In 2009 the Brandhorst Collection comprises more than 700 works.

Wikipedia: Museum Brandhorst (EN), Website

239 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Futuro-Haus

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A Futuro house, or Futuro Pod, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The shape, reminiscent of a flying saucer, and the structure's airplane hatch entrance has made the houses sought after by collectors. The Futuro is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-polyurethane, and poly(methyl methacrylate), measuring 4 metres high and 8 metres in diameter.

Wikipedia: Futuro (EN), Url

258 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Alte Pinakothek

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Alte Pinakothek Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Alte Pinakothek is an art museum located in the Kunstareal area in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses a significant collection of Old Master paintings. The name Alte (Old) Pinakothek refers to the time period covered by the collection—from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. The Neue Pinakothek, re-built in 1981, covers nineteenth-century art, and Pinakothek der Moderne, opened in 2002, exhibits modern art. All three galleries are part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, an organization of the Free state of Bavaria.

Wikipedia: Alte Pinakothek (EN), Website

263 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Present Continuous

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Present Continuous is a monumental sculpture by the Dutch sculptor Henk Visch, which was erected in May 2011 between the entrance of the new building of the University of Television and Film and the entrance of the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich on a green strip along Gabelsbergerstraße.

Wikipedia: Present Continuous (Skulptur) (DE)

427 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: 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

385 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Den Opfern der Nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft

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The Memorial to the Victims of Nazi Tyranny is a memorial in the old town of Munich. It was created in 1985 by the sculptor Andreas Sobeck from Winzer and erected in memory of the victims of the National Socialist dictatorship on the Square of the Victims of National Socialism on the corner of Brienner Straße and Maximiliansplatz. The monument was handed over during a commemorative ceremony on 8 November 1985 by the then Lord Mayor of Munich, Georg Kronawitter.

Wikipedia: Denkmal für die Opfer der NS-Gewaltherrschaft (München) (DE)

521 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 11: Dianatempel

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Dianatempel xiquinhosilva / CC BY 2.0

The Diana Temple in the Munich Hofgarten, the garden of the Munich Residenz, is a twelve-sided gazebo from the Renaissance period with eight open and four closed round arcades. It is the crossing point of the main and diagonal axes of the Hofgarten.

Wikipedia: Dianatempel (Munich) (EN)

45 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Hofgarten

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The Hofgarten is a garden in the center of Munich, Germany, located between the Residenz and the Englischer Garten.

Wikipedia: Hofgarten (Munich) (EN)

1028 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 13: Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum

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The German Hunting and Fishing Museum is a museum exhibiting objects connected with the history of hunting and fishing in Germany or other territories which nowadays belong to it.

Wikipedia: German Hunting and Fishing Museum (EN), Website

156 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: St. Michael's Church

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St. Michael's is a Jesuit church in Munich, southern Germany, the largest Renaissance church north of the Alps. The style of the building had an enormous influence on Southern German early Baroque architecture.

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

235 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Damenstiftskirche St. Anna

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Damenstiftskirche St. Anna is a chapel in Munich, southern Germany.

Wikipedia: Damenstiftskirche St. Anna (EN)

245 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Bürgersaalkirche

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Bürgersaalkirche Oliver Raupach; edit by Böhringer / CC BY-SA 2.5

The Bürgersaal is a historical building in Munich, Germany. Also known as Bürgersaalkirche since the consecration of the altar on May 13, 1778, it is the prayer and meeting room of the Marian Men Congregation "Annunciation". It was built in 1709/1710 to a design by Giovanni Antonio Viscardi.

Wikipedia: Bürgersaalkirche (EN)

1268 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 17: Lenbachhaus

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The Lenbachhaus is a building housing the Städtische Galerie art museum in Munich's Kunstareal.

Wikipedia: Lenbachhaus (EN), Website

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