Andechs Monastery

Andechs, Munich Great Area, Germany

Today a colleague of mine told me about a very strong religious beer that he drunk in Munich. Actually I know what he is talking about. Let me tell you the story.

One time, when I was in Munich, I went to a 15th century Baroque Monastery located in Andechs. There are still Benedictine Monks living there. To reach the Monastery I had to walk up the hill. The way through the forest make me feel like in the 15th century :-) Unfortunately visitors are not allowed to get inside of the Monastery.

Nevertheless it is possible to visit the church :-)

Now comes part two of this story: the beer. As you know Monks used to fast during long periods in the Lenten Season. This abstinence only allowed bread and water. Soon they started to complement this diet with strong bear (liquid bread). Nowadays this bear brewed by the Benedictine Monks is very famous.

Path to the Monastary

Nymphenburg Garden

This is the formal French garden at the near of the Nymphenburg Palace.



Nymphenburg Garden
Germany

The following picture was taken in Paris. We have the French Style here as well:)




Versailles
Paris
France

Nymphenburg PalaceSchloss Nymphenburg

Nymphenburg Palace
Near Munich
Germany


Duke Ferdinand Maria presented his wife with this Palace. The queen named it Nymphenburg (Nymphs' Castle).

Lavoisier's Laboratory

Lavoisier's Laboratory
Deutsches Museum
Munich
Germany

"Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed."
Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry.

Liebig's laboratory

Liebig's laboratory
Deutsches Museum
Munich
Germany

Liebig was a German chemist and is known as the "father of the fertilizer industry". He made important contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry.

Foucault Pendulum

Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault (1819-1868) was a French physician, physicist and naturalist. In 1850, he measured the velocity of light.

Foucault Pendulum
Deutsches Museum
Munich
Germany

In the years 1850 and 1851, he demonstrated the daily rotation of the Earth about its axis using a pendulum. The famous "Foucault's Pendulum" experiment took place in 1851 in the Pantheon in Paris. The Pendulum wire was 67 m long and pendulum ball weighed 28 kg.

Writing transcendental thoughts.

Deutsches Museum
Munich
Germany

The world's largest museum of technology and science!

Deutsches Museum
German Museum
Munich
Germany

Neue PinakothekNew Pinakothek

Water lilies
Claude Monet
Neue Pinakothek
Munich

London has Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. Munich has an important group of Art Museums as well: Neu Pinakothek, Alte Pinakothek and Pinakothek der Modern. These three Museums contain some of the richest collections of European painting in the world.

Welcome to Neue Pinakothek:)
Munich

Alte PinakothekOld Pinakothek

Alte Pinakothek
Munich
Germany

Alte Pinakothek is one of the world's most famous galleries, opened in 1836. It is a building in the Italian Renaissance style.




Alte Pinakothek, 1900

It is also one of the oldest galleries in the world.

Glyptothek

Glyptothek Museum
Munich
Germany

I strongly recommend this Museum. The Glyptothek houses Greek and Roman sculpture.

Propyläen - Propylaea - Προπυλαια

Propyläen
Königsplatz
Munich, Germany

Propyläen is the monumental gateway that serves as the entrance to an acropolis (edge of a town or a high city).

ResidenzMunich

Antiquarium

The Residenz was the home of the Wittelsbach dynasty up until 1918.

The Antiquarium is inside of the Residenz. This great hall is the largest Renaissance ceremonial hall in the north of the Alps.

Temple of Diana Hofgarten - Palace Garden

Temple of Diana
Hofgarten - Palace Garden
Munich
Germany

The Mannerist Temple of Diana in the centre of the Hofgarten is one of the most Bavaria's famous symbols.

The garden, with its references to Italian models, is one of the largest Mannerist gardens in the north of the Alps.

The Temple of Diana is a public altar of the Roman Goddess Diana. She was the virgin goddess of the hunt. She also later became a Moon Goddess.

The Power of Portugal.

Yesterday we showed why we are among the best four teams of the world. This is a picture of a portuguese flag in Marienplatz (center of Munich).

TheatinerkircheSt Cajetan

To celebrate the birth of their long-awaited son in 1662, the Elector Ferdinandand and his wife Henriette Adelaide of Savoy ordered the construction of a church and a monastery for the Theatine order.

Munich.

FeldherrnhalleHall of the Commanders

The Feldherrnhalle was a symbol of the honours of the Bavarian Army. It contains statues of military leaders Johann Tilly and Karl Phillip von Wrede. The central sculptural group was added in 1882, after the Franco-Prussian War.

The aim had been to create a focal point that would close off Ludwigstrasse and give the irregular Odeonsplatz a more ordered appearance.

The statues of two bayern lions flanking the stairway were added in 1906.

This was also one of the efforts by the Nazis to take over the Bavarian State, commonly referred to as the Beer Hall Putsch.

Neues Rathaus.

In the second half if the 19th century, the civic authorities decided to build new headquarters for themselves. The chosen site was the south of Marienplatz. This Neo-Gothic construction lasted from 1867 to 1919.

The clock in the tower is the fourth-largest clock in the Europe.

Virgin on the Mariensäule.

In the centre of Marienplatz stands the Virgin on the Mariensäule (column of the Virgin). This is the central point. All the distances in Munich are measured from this column.

Marienplatz.

Marienplatz is the geographical centre of the city. The square is always full of persons.