Visitors can feel themselves luck as Munich is home to everything that is Bavarian.  Munich is well-known for Weißwurst, a breakfast sausage that is traditionally eaten as a late breakfast along with a Weissbier and is available in restaurants till noon.  It is made in hot but non-boiling water for about ten minutes and served with greyish-white mild mustard. More you can try Schweinsbraten (roasted pork) or Schweinshaxe (roasted pig’s knuckle) in Munich. You further can enjoy truly marvelous German/Austrian style cakes and tortes by the slice in any of the countless bakeries and cafes in Munich.  Following is the list of some of the most famous restaurants in Munich.

•    Vinaiolo: This restaurant is popular in the city for having the one of the largest cellars in Munich. As one of Germany’s best Italian restaurants, Vinaiolo attracts staff passionate about the concept, menu and vintages. Very popular and intimate in size. It is better to go there with a well arranged reservation.

•    Café Reitschule: This spot close to the University is much popular among the local students as roam through the city. An interesting selection of music and ambience make this a fun stop for a light breakfast as well as a heavier meal. Good drink choices compliment the menu.

•    Tantris: This Schwabing “haute” culinary treat is equally popular for business as well as leisure travelers in the city for being some time. There International chef Hans Haas keeps to amaze and cater to the taste buds with gourmet menus. They provide excellent shellfish and game entrées which make it a perfect meal to be enjoyed in the restaurant. .

•    La Famiglia: La Famiglia provides traditional Italian food in Munich’s oldest hotel that is running from 1400, the rustic atmosphere in the restaurant is created from candles, fresh flowers and white tablecloths. Wood-fired pizzas range from the simple margherita to exotic toppings like arugula, paprika and marinated shrimp. The outdoor seating converts to a winter garden in colder months.

•    Osteria Italiana: Here one can enjoy beautiful artwork and cuisine around an historic location, and it has been said that here both Lenin and Hitler dine in the past. In the heart of Schwabing, this restaurant is providing food to Munich since 1890 and it has middle-class Italian roots. It has a romantic and intimate courtyard lays on the Eurocharm here. Here pasta is prepared with the best of ingredients.

•    Seehaus im Englischen Garten: This restaurant has an ambience of park like setting and is much popular with young German crowd for natural views and great beer selection. It provides a traditional Bavarian dining menu as well as collection of good vegetarian dishes. One should take their time to walk through the park. More at this beer garden you can bring your food but are also required to buy beverages on site.

Beer gardens of Munich

Beer garden is occurs to be an open-air space where beer along with other drinks and local food is. The concept has its roots in Southern Germany (especially Bavaria). It is normally situated close to a drinking spot like a public house or a beer hall. In Munich, there are situated many big beer gardens where customers in huge numbers upto 8,000 can sit around each other for drinking beer.

•    Hirschgarten: It is Europe’s biggest beer having around 8000 seats. Its main feature is a mini-zoo with deer and wild boars. In order to reach there one should take S-Bahn to Hirschgarten.

•    Kugleralm: It is a traditional beer garden famous for the Radler (mixture half beer half lemonade) and was invented in 1922, when a number of cyclists come into this beer garden while on a hot summer day. When they ran out of beer, they diluted it with lemonade, and told people that it is invented for cyclists and thus Radler become popular on that day.

•    Michaeligarten: It is a beer garden that is situates at the eastern Munich, in the Michaelipark, near the Michaelibad.

•  Waldwirtschaft: This beer garden is situated close to Munich’s high-society area Grünwald, as one can have opportunity to see one or two local celebrities out there.  One there can enjoy live jazz music.

Clubs and Bars in Munich

•    Nerodom, Ganghoferstra: It is Munich’s only full-time “black club”. It organizes events like Goth, Wave, Industrial, Electro, Medieval, Black Metal as depending upon the day. Other black events are being organized here while once in a week or month.

•    Night-Flight: This is a huge High-Tech-Disco that spreads over two levels. It has club disco, eight bars, cafés, a restaurant and an amusement arcade. There is also a swimming pool and terrace to cool off there. There also are many special effects, light and mirror shows, as well as the JBL-sound system with 15,000 Watt power makes the Night-Flight a different location to enjoy. Here you can enjoy all   Rave, Rock, Black Mission, best of music, Hip-Hop and much more forms of western dance and music.

•    M-Park, Landsbergerstr: Situated south-west to the central station. Its entrance fee is around seven and ten euro. It has 3 dance floors around in on 4000 square meters for 3 different music styles.

•    Pub Crawl Munich: It is a guided party tour for toursits across bars and clubs in Munich. Here on every Tuesday a tour for Karlsplatz (Stachus) is organized. On Tour participants get free shots and free admission at different locations on the tour. Its entrance fee is around fourteen euro.

As far as shopping experience is concerned in Munich there is too much for shoppers delight and excitement as city shops combines all the best names of International brands combined with Bavarian crafts. The primary shopping centers in the area are Neuhauserstrasse and Kaufingerstrasse having large department stores and international chain of products and services. There are shops for all occasions in Munich whether they are at Christmas market or at seasonal flea markets.  However, some attractive shopping centers and markets in Munich are being discussed below:

•    Maximilianstrasse / Residenzstrasse / Theatinerstrasse: These shopping streets are located around the Opera (Nationaltheater) in the city center and are the best place for high end luxury goods and items. There all the usual international suspects and local designers are present. There are also located some art galleries too.

•    Kaufingerstrasse / Neuhauserstrasse: This particular pedestrian zone is spread across from Karlsplatz/Stachus to Marienplatz and is the prominent shopping center for mid-priced goods and items. There are situates a good number of department stores, chain and other remaining independent boutiques there along the corridor. One would get side streets there least crowded and presents experience of homogenized shopping. There are located a good number of restaurants, open air cafes and beer gardens where a tourist can enjoy himself for his fullest excitement and enjoyment.

•    Shopping Centers: If you are looking for a good number of shops even under a single roof and place in Munich, then there are ample shops even under a single roof at shopping centers like PEP (U-Bahn stop: Neuperlach Zentrum, U5), OEZ (U-bahn stop Olympia-Einkaufszentrum, U1 (also U3 starting from autumn 2007)) or Riem Arkaden (U-Bahn stop Messestadt Ost, U2).

•    Hohenzollernstr: This Street is quite famous for collection of textile and clothes like Mazel, Vero Moda. The street becomes live especially at period of summer. Their especially during the summer in the months approaching the Oktoberfest, numerous shops sells comparatively cheap traditional German clothing.

•    Leopoldstr: This busy boulevard can be reached by the U-bahn U6 or U3 at the stops Münchner Freiheit, Giselastraße or Universität, and has chain stores such as The Body Shop, fast food joints, inexpensive restaurants, cinemas, sidewalk cafes and for the truly adventurous coffee shops, such as Starbucks. In the side streets you can find a wide selection of boutiques and lesser known local designers. On warm summer evenings along the sidewalks dozens of local artists will be showing and selling their works.

•    Viktualienmarkt: It is a famous market located around at the city centre, where you can have every type of fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, spices, and so on. And further more it is a great place to have a quick bite to eat as well.

•    Elisabethmarkt: It is quite smaller and comparatively cheaper market that has nice stall for good selection of fruits, vegetables and delicacies. It is situated around Elisabethplatz of the tram 27. This is nice place to spot around the lesser commercial parts of Schwabing. There are also interesting boutiques and designers on Elisabethstrasse between Elisabethplatz and Leopoldstrasse.
Apart from the conventional markets in Munich, there are special occasions of the years when certain markets are being set up there in the city, and one such occasion is Christmas when markets larger like Tollwood is being set and there small markets are also being set to sell out smaller commodities Christmas biscuits (Lebkuchen) souvenirs and the typical Glühwein. Some of the popular Christmas markets in Munich are as follows:
•    Münchner Freiheit: It is an artisan market at the subway stop in Schwabing.

•    Marienplatz: This comparatively is bigger market that is very commercial and stretches across the shopping market. So there one can mix Christmas market shopping and normal shopping.

•    Chinesischer Turm at Englischer Garten: It is a nice Christmas market located around a pretty park surrounding.  It can be reached out there easily from U/Bus station Münchner Freiheit on the Bus 54 that has a stop at Chinesischer Turm.

•    Wittelsbacher Platz: Situated near to Odeonsplatz it is a Christmas market that is into service and regulation since medieval period and a person can buy there medieval clothes, food and drinks, swords and can watch performances of medieval dances and music.

•    Christkindltram: Another sort of market there is a Christmas tram that operates and run around Advent through the city center around half an hour. The tram is excitedly decorated inside so people can enjoy Christmas songs and mulled wine.
Next to markets, there is located seasonal flea markets that occur generally only and around Saturday Morning when sun shines there around. More you can found around there courtyard flea markets events that even happens in the summer months.
•    Auer Dult: These long markets take place three times in a year respectively in months of spring, summer and autumn and it generally deal with household goods and antiques and too offers beer and amusement rides.

•    Theresienwiese: This is considered as the largest annual fleamarket in Europe that occurs there on the first Saturday of the Frühlingsfest at the same site as the Oktoberfest. In the market, there around several thousand citizens’ offers second-hand goods and the dealers of new wares are forbidden in the market.

•    Olympiapark: Here, it tends to be organized fine weekly flea market during and have break only when any event is being organized at Olympia Stadium. It takes place in the nicely tree-shaded parking lot of the stadium on Fridays and Saturdays from 7AM to 4PM.

To judge out a character of a city or place you can know it better through monuments and landmarks standing out there as they are the spots that have passed out past as well as experience of present times. Likewise have some experience of landmarks of Brussels, capital city of Belgium to know it completely by reading briefs of the monuments in the city.

•    Alter Peter: It is a pre- Merovingian church that is site of the Munich city even before its establishment.  In 8th century monks used to live around this church on a hill named as Petersbergl. During the 12th century a new church in the Bavarian Romanesque pattern was constructed over there in Gothic style. The church building was burnt in fire and dedicated and renew in 1368. Within the church there is a high altar to which Erasmus Grasser contributed the figure of Saint Peter.  There other than masterpieces existed five Gothic paintings by Jan Polack and several altars by Ignaz Gunther.

Alter Peter

•    Nymphenburg: It is a Baroque palace in Munich, Bavaria, Germany and was premier summer palace of rulers of Bavaria.  The palace was constructed by Prince-electoral couple Ferdinand Maria and Henriette Adelaide of Savoy on the design and patters of the Italian architects Agostino Barelli in 1664 after the birth of their son Maximilian II Emanuel. Its central pavilion was accomplished in 1675. In 1701, Max Emanuel, the heir to Bavaria led to the expansion and further reconstruction of the Church. To the next extensions to the church two pavilions were added each in the south and north of Barelli’s palace by Enrico Zucalli and Giovanni Antonio Viscardi.

•    Marienplatz: It is a premier square in the city center of Munich, Germany as in operation well centuries before and is operational from 1158. During Middle Ages markets and tournaments used to occur in the city square.  Marienplatz was named after the Mariensäule, a Marian column erected in its centre in 1638 to celebrate the end of Swedish occupation. Presently it has structures like the New City Hall (Neues Rathaus) on the north side.On the eastern side of the city is located Altes Rathaus that is a gothic council hall and ballroom and tower.

Marienplatz Muenchen

•    Olympiaturm: It is a tower in Olympiapark, Munich and has an overall height of 291 meter and has a weight of around 52,500 tons. On tower around at the height of 190 meter there exists an observation platform as well as a small rock and roll museum housing a number of memorabilia. From its opening in 1968 till now around 36 million visitors have climbed this tower. At a height of 182 there is a revolving restaurant that seats around 230 people in it. The full revolution of restaurant takes around 53 minutes. It remains open for public daily from 9:00 am to 24:00 hrs.

Munchen Olympiaturm

•    Residenz: It is the former royal palace of the Bavarian monarchs in the center of the city of Munich, Germany. It has vast collection of architecture, room decorations and display from the royal collections. The complex of building has ten courtyards and the museums with rooms showing upto 130 rooms. Its three main parts are the Königsbau, the Alte Residenz and the Festsaalbau. A wing of the Festsaalbau keeps the Cuvilliés Theatre from the reconstruction of the Residenz after World War II.

•   Stachus: It is a large square in central Munich. That was termed officially   Karlsplatz in 1797 after the unpopular Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria. Munich rarely use that name, calling the square instead Stachus, after the pub Beim Stachus.

•    Frauenkirche (Münchner Dom): It is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Munich and Freising and has reputation of being symbolized Bavarian State Capital. The church towers can be easily seen from distance in city.

•    Olympiaberg: It is an Olympic Park that was constructed for the 1972 Summer Olympics. It is located at the area of Munich that is too known as the “Oberwiesenfeld”, this Park even work as a venue for cultural, social, and religious like as worship. The Park is controlled by Olympiapark München GmbH, a holding company fully working under the state capital of Munich.

Olympia Park

•    Bavaria Statue: It is a bronze cast statue of a female figure showing up Bavaria’s secular patron saint and is situated at the border of the Thereseinwises. The statue was constructed by the foundry of J.B. Stiglmair from 1844 until 1850, mainly by Stiglmair’s nephew Ferdinand Von Miller. Since the Bavaria is one of the biggest bronze sculptures in the world.

Bavaria Statue

•    Gärtnerplatz: It is an opera house and opera company in Munich and was designed by the architect Michael Reiffenstuel. After its inauguration in 5th November 1865, it works as Munich’s second opera house after the National Theatre.

•   Walking Man: It is a Famous sculpture from the world famous French sculptor Auguete Rodin and in bronze. The statue was made by Roding around 1877 and 1878.  According to the Bibliography provided by the National Gallery of Art, the Walking Man is a version St. John without head and arms. This sculpture is based upon the movement of the piece. According to some other it has connection to Hercules without a head or hands

Being a capital city of Free State Of Bavaria, Germany, Munich has a population of 1.3 million people and it thus makes it the third largest country after Hamburg and Berlin. Atone time it is reflected to be the capital of Europe. Currently, Munich is the home of some of the most famous companies like the BMW and Siemens. More to this, quite a number of tourists get a lot of attraction here.

A city near the Monks

Dating back in history, it is believed that the first document of existence was discovered here in the 1158. This was a time when a man by the name Henry the lion had established a toll collection point for those who wanted to cross the river Isar. The origin of the name still remains a big question.  Many people wonder, if it is a German word for monk (monchem) or a European word (munica) meaning a place of the river bank.

The capital of Bavaria

The 18th century saw the city grow very rampantly and therefore, it became one of the largest in Europe. In the year 1806 Munich became the capital city of Bavaria which was a new kingdom. Some of the buildings that we see today were built just recently. This was during the era of Ludwig I and Maximillan II.

Munich ill at ease

After the World War I, the city was down on unrest. It was at this time that the Bavarian soviet Republic was formed by the communist who had taken power in 1918. On May 1919, all this was put down following the Militarist Freikops and who were later drawn to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialism. In the year 1923 there was a concentration that saw the overthrow of the Weimar republic by Hitler and they ended up taking the Munich.

The dark years of Munich
Later the revolt came down to failure after the arrest if Hitler and the Nazi party which was at that time not known in Munich. During this period, the party regained its superiority and became the holder of the sword in 1933. The rise of the Nazism was a great feature of its time since so much came with it including the current growth that has been experienced in Munich.

The 1972 Olympics
This one was an achievement of a lifetime, the tragic scene. This was the time when the five Israeli athletes and German corps were killed by Terrorists from Palestine.