Maxvorstadt

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Where it sits

The circle is Maxvorstadt and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• The Residenz13 min walk1.1 km
• The Frauenkirche14 min walk1.1 km
• Marienplatz & the Glockenspiel16 min walk1.3 km
• The English Garden & river surfers17 min walk1.4 km
• A Munich beer hall17 min walk1.4 km
• Viktualienmarkt19 min walk1.6 km
• A beer garden22 min walk1.8 km
• The Deutsches Museum28 min walk2.3 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 5.Nymphenburg Palace — The vast baroque summer palace of the Bavarian kings on the western edge of the city — a grand painted 'Hall of Mirrors', the famous 'Gallery of Beauties', and huge formal gardens and canals to wander. A magnificent, less-crowded royal day out; the park alone is a lovely stroll.
• 6.The Pinakotheken — Munich's cluster of great art museums in Maxvorstadt — the Alte Pinakothek's Old Masters (Dürer, Rubens, Rembrandt), the Neue Pinakothek's 19th-century works, and the Pinakothek der Moderne's design and modern art. A world-class art district; pick one, or gallery-hop, and note Sunday's €1 entry to the Altes.
• 11.BMW Welt & Museum — By the Olympic Park, the futuristic BMW Welt showroom and the bowl-shaped museum next door tell the story of the Munich carmaker — gleaming vintage and concept cars, motorbikes and design, plus the striking 1972 Olympiapark to explore alongside. A fun, free-to-enter (museum ticketed) hit for petrolheads and architecture fans.
• 13.Königsplatz — A monumental neoclassical square framed by Greek-temple-style museums of antiquities, built as Munich's 'Athens on the Isar' — grand and calm by day, and a chilling place too, as a former Nazi parade ground, with a nearby documentation centre. Striking architecture and layered history, in the museum quarter.