Munich City Guide Introduction

Munich is a city of several impressions, some of them at once. One minute, strolling broad, leafy boulevards lined with imposing, palatial buildings on one side and small public parks overflowing with flowers on the other, you appear to be in the most refined city in the world. Then there's the more cosmopolitan, less traditionally "Bavarian" Munich—streets lined with Turkish grocery stores, travel agencies, and clothes shops.