Munich Express Old Town Highlights Tour

If you are limited by time, but eager to explore Munich, join my express tour to discover the best of the city in a nutshell and with no rush in just 90 minutes.
The tour is meant to introduce you to the main sights of the Munich old town, highlighting the city’s secret spots and most fascinating attractions and offering you a compact but very substantial and engaging dive into Munich’s history and legends.

On our walk along a 1,3 km route around the old town we will discover the ancient gate granting access to the medieval city and will find out what its watchtower has to do with toys. You will visit Munich’s oldest church and will learn the blood-chilling story of its silent bell. You will go inside the world’s most famous beer hall to greet the beer angel and to eyewitness the unique Bavarian beer drinking culture. And to crown it all you will admire the very heart of the city – St. Mary’s square, edged by the monumental New Town Hall with its majestic Glockenspiel clock tower.

Meeting Point

Toy Museum Munich

Marienplatz 15, 80331 München, Germany

We will meet under the arch below the tower of the Old Town Hall, nowadays home to the Munich Toy Museum. I will send you a pic of the spot as soon as you book the tour.

What's included:

• – Insider tips and recommendations regarding local restaurants, shopping and sights to explore
• – Private 90 min. walking tour exploring old town highlights and hidden gems at a comfortable pace
• – Knowledgeable and welcoming guide, fluent in your chosen language

Not included:

• – Food and drinks

What to expect:

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Old Town Hall

Marienplatz 15, Munich, 80331, Bavaria

I will meet you by the tower of the Old Town Hall and will explain you the role it played in the fortification system of medieval Munich. You will learn the story of the city foundation, will make acquaintance with its founder, and will discover how salt fostered the rise of what is now the Bavarian capital.
Additionally, you will find out how the monk became Munich’s symbol and what that has to do with the city’s name.

5 minutes

St. Peter's Church

Peterspl. 1, Munich, 80331, Bavaria

We will visit Munich’s oldest church and will learn the peculiar story of its tower adorned by 8 clocks. In the apse we will admire the high altar featuring St. Peter and will discover when his tiara is being removed and how this symbolic act is connected to the election of the Pope in Rome.
We will also scrutinise the exteriors of the church, to discover a cannonball in one of its windowsills and to sight the only presently silent bell of St. Peter’s – the Poor Sinners’ bell, which tolled the executions held in old times on Marienplatz.

10 minutes

Munich Marienplatz

Munich, 80331, Bavaria

We will delve together into the centuries-old history of Munich’s central square, once the main marketplace of the medieval city and nowadays, just as in old times, the heart of the city’s animated life.
We will admire St. Mary’s column and the angels fighting the four evils at its base, will learn counting the driving distances in Munich and will discover the place where the Munich white sausage was invented.

10 minutes

Fischbrunnen

Marienplatz, , Munich, 80331, Bavaria

I will show you Munich’s most famous fountain and explain you the two local traditions connected to it – the Wallet Washing and the Butchers’ Jump.

5 minutes

New Town Hall (Neus Rathaus)

Marienplatz 8, , Munich, 80331, Bavaria

We will decipher the architectural structure of the majestic Neo-Gothic building of the New Town Hall and will learn two significant moments from the city history, which are daily reenacted by the Glockenspiel, Munich’s world-famous mechanical clock, to various tunes of its carillon.

10 minutes

Frauenkirche

Frauenplatz 1, Munich, 80331, Bavaria

We will visit Munich’s cathedral and learn the spine-chilling legend of its construction. Moreover, we will sight the Devil’s footprint at the entrance and find out how it is connected to the wind constantly blowing around the cathedral irrespective of the season and the weather in the city.

15 minutes

New Town Hall (Neus Rathaus)

Marienplatz 8, , Munich, 80331, Bavaria

We will take a peek at the grand courtyard of Munich’s New Town Hall, will unriddle the symbolism behind the sculptures adorning the portico of the old city treasury and will discover the Staircase of Ages and read its implied significance by the statues on its walls.

5 minutes

Alter Hof

Alter Hof 1, Munich, 80331, Bavaria

We will visit the inner courtyard of the first residence of the Wittelsbach royal family in Munich to admire the Monkey Tower and to discover its legend and its astonishing role in the life of the Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV.

10 minutes

Restaurant Pfistermühle

Pfisterstraße 4, 80331 München, Germany

We will walk by the building that hosted the royal mill and bakery in old times and will discover the legend of the pretzel and its symbolic connection to Munich.

5 minutes

Hofbräuhaus München

Platzl 9, 80331 München, Germany

We will visit Hofbräuhaus, the former royal brewery, which is nowadays the most famous beer hall in the world.
We will go inside the main hall, where you will have the chance to meet the beer angel, observe the regular guests at their tables and take a look at the lockers they keep their personal beer mugs in.

You will discover the story behind the beer purity law, learn which breweries are allowed to sell their beer at the Oktoberfest and wonder at the unexpected connection of the Oktoberfest with a royal wedding. (No beer tasting included.)

15 minutes