Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Munich, Germany

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 9.4 km
Ascend 159 m
Descend 674 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: Maxmonument

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Maxmonument Rufus46 / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Max Monument in Munich, also called the Max II Monument, is a great monument in honor of the Bavarian King Maximilian II. It is located on a traffic island in Maximilianstraße, Lehel district.

Wikipedia: Maxmonument (DE)

209 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Museum Fünf Kontinente

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The Museum Five Continents or Five Continents Museum, located in Munich, Germany, is a museum for non-European artworks and objects of cultural value. Its name until 9 September 2014 was Bavarian State Museum of Ethnology.

Wikipedia: Museum Five Continents (EN), Website

574 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 3: Pfistermühle

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The Pfistermühle is the former flour mill and bakery of the Hofpfisterei in Munich's old town. It is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments.

Wikipedia: Pfistermühle (München) (DE)

197 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: National Theatre Munich

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The National Theatre at Max-Joseph-Platz in Munich is the venue of the Bavarian State Opera, the Bavarian State Orchestra and the Bavarian State Ballet. It was built between 1811 and 1818 by King Max Joseph of Bavaria by the architect Karl von Fischer as the Royal Court and National Theatre. The neoclassical building has been destroyed and rebuilt twice throughout history. The National Theatre is not to be confused with the neighbouring Residenztheater.

Wikipedia: Nationaltheater München (DE), Website

332 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Flora III

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Flora III is a sculpture by Fritz Koenig in Munich. It was unveiled on 4 September 2003 in the cabinet garden of the Munich Residence, which had been redesigned by landscape architect Peter Kluska.

Wikipedia: Flora III (DE)

538 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: Bazar

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The Bazaar Building is a building with shops and restaurants in the center of the Bavarian capital Munich.

Wikipedia: Bazar (München) (DE)

253 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Palais Leuchtenberg

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The Palais Leuchtenberg, built in the early 19th century for Eugène de Beauharnais, first Duke of Leuchtenberg, is the largest palace in Munich. Located on the west side of the Odeonsplatz, where it forms an ensemble with the Odeon, it currently houses the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance. It was once home to the Leuchtenberg Gallery on the first floor.

Wikipedia: Palais Leuchtenberg (EN)

83 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Bayerisches Staatsministerium des Innern, für Sport und Integration

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Bayerisches Staatsministerium des Innern, für Sport und Integration

The Odeon is a former concert hall in the Odeonsplatz in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, which is named after it. Built in the early 19th century to a design by Leo von Klenze and forming a counterpoint to the externally identical Palais Leuchtenberg, it was rebuilt after being almost totally destroyed in World War II and now houses the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior.

Wikipedia: Odeon (Munich) (EN)

477 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: Palais Holnstein

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Palais Holnstein B. Hertz / CC BY-SA 3.0

Holnstein Palace is an historic building in Munich, Southern Germany, which has been the residence of the Archbishop of Munich and Freising since 1818.

Wikipedia: Holnstein Palace (EN)

156 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Palais Seinsheim

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The Palais Seinsheim is a city palace in the late Rococo style at Prannerstraße 7 in Munich.

Wikipedia: Palais Seinsheim (DE)

430 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Frauenkirche

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The Frauenkirche is a church in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, that serves as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and seat of its Archbishop. It is a landmark and is considered a symbol of the Bavarian capital city. Although called "Münchner Dom" on its website and URL, the church is referred to as "Frauenkirche" by locals.

Wikipedia: Frauenkirche, Munich (EN), Website

92 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Teufelstritt

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Teufelstritt Oliver Raupach / CC BY-SA 2.5

The black step, also known as the devil's kick, is an imprint on the floor of the entrance hall of Munich's Frauenkirche.

Wikipedia: Teufelstritt (DE)

250 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Thomass-Eck

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Wikipedia: Thomass-Eck (DE)

502 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 14: Radspielerhaus

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The Palais Rechberg or Radspielerhaus is a city palace in Munich, Germany. It is located at Hackenstraße 7 in the Hackenviertel. The palace was built in 1678 and altered after 1817 by the architect Jean Baptiste Métivier.

Wikipedia: Palais Rechberg (DE)

565 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 15: Feuerwache 1 - Hauptfeuerwache

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The main fire station in Munich, also known as the main fire house or central fire house, is a fire station of the Munich Fire Department. Both the main building and an annex erected shortly after it are listed as monuments in the Bavarian Monument List.

Wikipedia: Hauptfeuerwache (München) (DE), Website

206 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Sendlinger Tor

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The Sendlinger Tor is a city gate at the southern extremity of the historic old town area of Munich. It served as a fortification for defence and is one of Munich's three remaining gothic town gates.

Wikipedia: Sendlinger Tor (EN)

1011 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 17: Neptunbrunnen

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Neptunbrunnen is a fountain located in the Alter Botanischer Garten of Munich, Germany. It was sculpted in 1937 at the behest of the National Socialist government by Josef Wackerle. A muscular statue of neptune stands in the middle of the fountain, holding a trident on his shoulder, above a fish-tailed horse rising from the water.

Wikipedia: Neptunbrunnen (Munich) (EN)

1806 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 18: Denkmal an die Opfer des Attentats auf das Oktoberfest am 26. September 1980

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Denkmal an die Opfer des Attentats auf das Oktoberfest am 26. September 1980

The monument to the Oktoberfest Tatti victim is a memorial in Munich for the victims of the Oktoberfestattary of September 26, 1980. It was created by the Bavarian sculptor Friedrich Koller and handed over to the public on September 18, 1981 . The location is the location of the explosion on the northern edge of the Theresienwiese at the main entrance of the Oktoberfest.

Wikipedia: Denkmal für die Wiesn-Attentat-Opfer (DE)

706 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 19: Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum

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Since 2003, the Transport Centre has been a branch of the Deutsches Museum in Munich, which shows its exhibitions on the subject of land transport here.

Wikipedia: Verkehrszentrum (Deutsches Museum) (DE), Website

1060 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 20: Oktoberfest

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Oktoberfest is the world's largest Volksfest, featuring a beer festival and a travelling carnival, and is held annually in Munich, Bavaria, from mid- or late-September to the first Sunday in October, with more than six million international and national visitors attending the event. Locally, it is called d'Wiesn, after the colloquial name for the fairgrounds, Theresienwiese. Oktoberfest is an important part of Bavarian culture, having been held since the year 1810. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations that are modeled after the original Munich event.

Wikipedia: Oktoberfest (EN), Website, Opening Hours

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