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Schwabing and the park - Munich attractions


A guide to Munich attractions in Schwabing and the park


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MACRO-ART: A huge figure statue on Lutipold Strasse, Schwabing.
Schwabing is to Munich what Soho
is to London or Greenwich Village is to New York – or at least it used to be.

Up to the 20th century it was little more than a village on Munich’s northern outskirts where the
well-to-do kept mansions within easy reach of the Englischer Garten.

Then it became a haven for artists
and the avant-garde and ground zero for Munich’s communist uprising of 1919.




It’s remained the city’s most trendy
address and despite a gradual gentrification that’s pushed housing prices through the roof.

But the LMU university and a thriving pub scene keep it in the scope of the common folk. Stroll down the main drag of Ludwig Strasse before sauntering over east to the Englisher Garten, the world’s largest city park. Then hit the bars as the sun goes down for a few lively cocktails.


Top attractions in Schwabing and the Park


Englischer Garten (English Garden)☺☺☺☺☺
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 "Splendor in the grass"
I’ve whiled away some of my most contented hours here, lying shirt off besides a summer stream, listening to the sounds of nature and the chatter of other delinquent timewasters in the distance. (Read more)

Haus der Kunst (House of Art)☺☺☺☺
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 "Art versus oppression. Art wins"
The massive triumphalist architecture of this Munich art museum seems like something out of a megalomaniac’s daydream – and
it is. (Read more)

LMU (University) and White Rose museum ☺☺☺
"Top of the class"
Munich’s grandest university makes me wish I was a student again.The uni (known as LMU) has a little under 45,000 students of which two thirds are women and over 6,000 are other countries. (Read more)

Ludwigskirche (Church of St Ludwig) ☺☺
"Treasure inside"
This washed-white house of worship hides a great artistic treasure within its bowels. The Church of St Ludwig (built 1829 – 1844) is home to the world’s biggest altar fresco. (Read more)

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library)☺☺
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 "Temple of tombs"
This lordly red and yellow brick building (built 1830s) looks like it’s been yanked off a piazza in Florence and carefully set down in the middle of Munich. (Read more)

Siegestor (Victory Gate)☺☺
"Urging peace"
The commanding Siegestor (1852) has seen war and seen peace. Now it mostly sees a lot of traffic from its focal location at the busy Ludwig-Leopold Strasse nexus.
. (Read more)



Note: Throughout the Attractions Munich section I’ve designated each sight with one, two, three, four or five☺. Please read this a rating of interest to visitors and general grooviness, and a guide, of sorts, for prioritizing your visits.  


 

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