Park in Munich
FreeCosts nothing to visit.
The Englischer Garten is one of the largest urban parks in the world, stretching from the city center to the northern suburbs. Free. The beer gardens (Chinesischer Turm being the most famous) allow visitors to bring their own food and only buy drinks, a Bavarian tradition that budget travelers exploit gratefully. The Eisbach wave near the southern entrance draws surfers year-round. An afternoon in the Englischer Garten costs as little as the price of one beer.
Practical
On foot
Free and low-cost routes that stop at Englischer Garten.
The Heart of Munich Free Walking Tour meets at Marienplatz and times the 10:45 morning departure so the group arrives back for the 11 am Glockenspiel show. It is the most efficient free orientation for Munich's old town.
The Munich Beer Garden Walk is a self-guided route through the city's beer culture, starting at Marienplatz and ending in the Englischer Garten. The Bavarian tradition of bringing your own food to a beer garden means the full walk costs as little as the price of two beers.
Nearby
Other places worth the walk, and what each one costs.
Leo von Klenze custom-designed one hall in the Alte Pinakothek to be tall enough to hang Rubens's Last Judgment, which stands over 6 meters. The museum holds 72 Rubens paintings, the largest permanent collection of his work anywhere in the world, which gives a sense of the scale of the Wittelsbach collecting ambition.
The Asamkirche (St Johann Nepomuk) is a tiny Baroque church on Sendlinger Strasse, built by the Asam brothers as their private chapel. Free to enter.
Dachau opened on March 22, 1933, barely seven weeks after the Nazi seizure of power, making it the first concentration camp in the Third Reich and the administrative model for every camp that followed.
The Deutsches Museum on Museumsinsel in the Isar holds approximately 125,000 objects across 50 fields of science and technology, making it the largest science museum in the world by collection size.
Standing wave on the Eisbach river at the southern edge of the Englischer Garten, where surfers ride year-round. One of Munich's most photographed spectacles. The wave is fast and only for experienced surfers, but watching from the bridge is free entertainment.
The Hofbrauhaus is Munich's most famous beer hall, a cavernous room of long wooden tables, brass bands, and one-liter Masskrug steins. Free to enter.
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