Munich

Twenty-nine stops from the centre outward: the old town on foot, then the Residenz, Odeonsplatz and the English Garden, next the museum quarter at Königsplatz, last Nymphenburg, the Olympic Park and the BMW Museum.

Most of it stands for the second time. In 1945, 45 per cent of the building stock lay in ruins, 60 per cent in the old town; of 23,500 square metres of Residenz roof, 50 were left. In August 1945 the city council chose a reconstruction bound to tradition, and in 1946 Karl Meitinger pushed the old street plan through — unlike Hanover or Frankfurt. The New Town Hall itself is not medieval but neo-Gothic: Georg von Hauberrisser, 1867 to 1905.

The English Garden covers 375 hectares, more than Central Park; laid out from 1789 by the American Benjamin Thompson. Klenze's Glyptothek of 1830 was among the first public sculpture museums; the Königsplatz in front carried the Nazi parade slabs until 1987/88 and is lawn again. In the Hofbräuhaus, a brewery since 1589 in an 1897 building, Hitler proclaimed the NSDAP programme on 24 February 1920. The Olympic tent roof by Behnisch and Frei Otto was the 1972 answer to 1936; on 5 September eleven Israeli athletes and a policeman died there.