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   Deutsches Museum

   The largest museum of science and technology in the world, founded in 1903 on an island in the Isar and built on the principle that visitors should be allowed to work the exhibits. It holds U1, the first German submarine, of 1906, cut open so you can walk through it.

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   Nymphenburg Palace

   The Wittelsbach summer palace, begun in 1664 and extended into a front half a kilometre wide. Ludwig I's Gallery of Beauties hangs thirty-six portraits of women he admired; the Amalienburg in the park, a hunting lodge with a mirrored hall, is the finer building.

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   Alte Pinakothek

   Opened in 1836 and one of the oldest public galleries anywhere, built to hold four centuries of Wittelsbach buying. It has the largest Rubens collection in the world, Dürer's self-portrait as Christ, and Altdorfer's Battle of Alexander, which repays half an hour on its own.

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   Frauenkirche

   The cathedral of Munich and the largest hall church in the world, its brick nave finished in 1488 and the twin towers capped with onion domes in 1525. A city rule holding new buildings to 99 metres keeps them visible across the centre; the south tower is open to climbers.

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   Englischer Garten

   Nearly four square kilometres laid out from 1789 in the English manner, running from the centre to the northern city limit. Surfers ride a standing wave on the Eisbach at its southern end all year round, and the Chinese Tower beer garden seats seven thousand.

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   Glyptothek

   Klenze's museum of 1830, built for Ludwig I's Greek and Roman sculpture and the only one of its kind — nothing but sculpture, in top-lit vaulted rooms with no decoration. The Aegina temple marbles and the Barberini Faun are the pieces that matter.

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   Marienplatz

   The city's main square since 1158, with the neo-Gothic town hall on one side. Its glockenspiel of 1908 sends forty-three figures round twice a day at eleven and noon, re-enacting a ducal wedding and a coopers' dance, and takes about fifteen minutes to do it.

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   Neue Pinakothek

   The nineteenth-century half of the Munich collections — German Romantics, French Impressionists, Van Gogh's Sunflowers — in a 1981 building that has been closed for a long structural renovation, with the best of it shown at the Alte Pinakothek meanwhile.

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   Munich Residence

   The Wittelsbach city palace, grown over four centuries into one of the largest palace complexes in Europe. Its Antiquarium of 1571 is the biggest Renaissance hall north of the Alps, and the treasury holds crowns, reliquaries and a small Bavarian obsession with rock crystal.

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    BMW Museum

    The company museum, opened in 1973 in a windowless silver bowl beside the four-cylinder headquarters tower. It runs from motorcycle racing through the Isetta bubble car to the current line, and the delivery hall across the road is free.

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   Braunes Haus

   The mansion between Karolinenplatz and Königsplatz bought for the Nazi party in 1930 and used as its national headquarters. Bombing destroyed it and the ruins were cleared; the documentation centre on Nazi history, opened in 2015, stands on the adjoining ground.

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   Asam Church

   A church of the 1730s built by the Asam brothers next to their own house, on a plot four metres wide, as a private chapel they then had to open to the public. It is the most concentrated late baroque interior in Germany, with no flat surface anywhere in it.

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   Theresienwiese

   Forty-two hectares of open ground named after Princess Therese, whose wedding in 1810 was celebrated with a horse race here — Oktoberfest is the anniversary of that party and has been held on the same field ever since.

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   St. Michael's Church, Munich

   Jesuit church in Munich, consecrated in 1597 and the largest Renaissance church north of the Alps. Forty Wittelsbach rulers lie in its crypt, among them Ludwig II.

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   Haus der Kunst

   Built in 1937 as the House of German Art to show what the regime approved of, in the stripped classicism it favoured. It is now a contemporary art gallery which has made a point of exposing rather than hiding what the building was — the swastika mosaics survive under the ceiling.

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   Olympiapark

   The park built for the 1972 Games, where Frei Otto's tented roof of acrylic panels on steel cables was engineered with the first structural use of computer form-finding. It stayed in use rather than decaying — concerts, swimming, and a memorial to the eleven Israelis murdered here.

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   St. Peter's Church, Munich

   The oldest parish church in Munich, twelfth century in origin and known as Old Peter. Three hundred and six steps climb its tower for the closest view of the Frauenkirche domes, and the church holds the skeleton of a Roman girl dressed in gold thread.

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   Schleißheim palace complex

   Three palaces in one baroque park north of the city: the Old of 1623, the New of 1726 with the grandest staircase in Germany, and Lustheim at the far end of a canal, which holds a Meissen collection. The whole ensemble is quieter than Nymphenburg and better preserved.

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   Königsplatz

   Square in Munich laid out from 1815 for Ludwig I on the model of the Athenian Acropolis. Its Glyptothek and Propylaea face each other across an open lawn.

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    Theatine Church

    Church in Munich of 1690, built by the electors in thanks for the birth of an heir. Its yellow facade and twin towers follow Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome.

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