If you want to enjoy fresh air and sun in Munich, you don't have to leave the city first.
“New in Munich” brings together the most valuable tips for excursions.
“
New in Munich” 2021
is your personal travel guide for the Bavarian capital.
Exciting reports, insider tips and interviews can be found on almost 200 pages.
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Munich - If you drive out, you could be stuck in traffic on the holidays - or uncomfortably close between all the day trippers who are driven out of the city.
Munich itself has quite a few places that you can head to at Easter to enjoy the sun - whether as a family, as a couple or as a flat share.
The best tips for fresh air fans - not only valid for Easter ...
A garden with deer
At least three deer and at least 30 deer can be admired and fed in the deer garden - without admission.
Simply take the S-Bahn to Laim or the tram to Romanplatz.
In addition to feeding the fallow deer, the children can let off steam in three playgrounds: there is a water playground, one with a climbing tower and wall and one with an elephant slide, many swings and an adventure tower plus a bridge.
The people of Munich picnic, fix slacklines between the trees and play Swedish chess in the meadows ... - and of course feed the deer ...
Vacation in the steppe or in the Himalayas?
Even if the greenhouses are currently closed, the botanical garden has a lot to offer: There are over 19,000 plant species to discover, in the rock garden the children love to watch small lizards, admire the rhododendron grove, get to know the vegetation of the steppe and plants from the distant Himalayas.
Stroll like a king
This is possible in several places in Munich, but above all in the Nymphenburg Palace Park - a masterpiece of garden art including water fountains, lakes, winding paths, ancient trees, various castles and even a hermitage on the roadside: here you have to come in and, above all, come down!
The Monopteros round temple is located on Lake Badenburg, a real eye-catcher and you can see sculptures like the Pan with a spring.
Is the walk too boring for the children?
Simply step into the park through the side gate at the southern waterway and take a few steps, then you stand in front of a wooden fountain - and the Crown Prince Garden.
The small, fenced-in landscape garden was laid out in 1799 as a separate garden for the still small, later great King Ludwig I.
It's not a playground in the strict sense of the word, but there is a meadow in which to romp around, a small stream in which you can splash around, let boats go or throw stones and a large, old tree that you can climb on.
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Get out by bike and explore Munich - this is ideal around the Easter holidays.
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The Theresienwiese - a wide field
42-hectare meadow and concrete surface await inline and wind skaters, speedminton players, cyclists or anyone who likes to fly kites.
There is a fitness parkour, playground and, with everything you do here, you have a view of the Bavaria and the Munich Frauentürme, easily accessible by underground or tram.
Much east to the west
Experience a little bit of Nepal, China or Japan?
You don't have to travel around the world for this, just go for a walk in the Westpark - clockwise around the Westsee and the floating stage.
Stroll in the Chinese "garden of fragrance and splendor", which you enter through the "gate of spring" and symbolically walk through the different seasons.
The large pavilion with the golden, Asian curved roof on the water represents the summer. In the West Park you can see the Thai sala with a standing Buddha statue, a Nepalese pagoda or the Yurighara Park, which was also built in Sapporo - one result the city partnership with Munich.
If you are not impressed by Far Eastern culture - the children will love a total of six adventure playgrounds, including one with three giant slides.
The secrets of the residence
This backdrop!
The Theatinerkirche, the Dianatempel, the Residenz: if you are looking for seclusion right in the center, this is the right place.
In the courtyard garden you can throw the balls on Munich's most beautiful boules alley.
Or look for the poets' grotto in the poet's garden of the residence, formerly known as the financial garden.
It lies between the Residenz and the English Garden and its striking elevation was created on the site of a bastion of the Thirty Years War.
It looks enchanted, with its dense tree growth, the winding paths and the hilly landscape.
It bears its new name because of the monuments of various poets and artists who are associated with Munich in various ways.
The poets' grotto was created in honor of Heinrich Heine, who lived in Munich in 1827 and 1828 - it contains a bronze sculpture by the sculptor Toni Stadler.
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The Hofgarten on Munich's Odeonsplatz offers the opportunity for a spring-like stroll.
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Also little known is the cabinet garden next to the Allerheiligen Hofkirche, laid out under King Ludwig I, later neglected, then used as a vegetable growing area or chicken yard.
Today you can find shallow water basins, a fountain and the sculpture "Flora 3" by Landshut sculptor Fritz Koenig - who became world-famous when his work of art "The Sphere" survived the collapse of the Twin Towers on November 9, 2001 in front of the World Trade Center.
You can read the best leisure time tips in the magazine “New in Munich 2021”. It is available in the press house Münchner Merkur / tz (Bayerstr. 57), in press shops, at www.bavariashop.de and as an e-magazine at www.neuinmuc.de.