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Find out the wide range of cultural highlights. Bavaria is not only acknowledged as having one of the finest landscapes in central Europe it also has a fine range of breathtakingly beautiful castles, palaces and gardens, historically powerful monasteries, a fantastic range of museums.

Herrenchiemsee Palace Park

Royal Palace of Herrenchiemsee (approx. 84 miles/135 km) »

In the New Palace of Herrenchiemsee, designed by Georg Dollmann and Julius Hofmann, he fulfilled his long-cherished dream of building a "New Versailles" as a symbol of absolutism and an independent creation in the Historicist style.

Audi Forum Ingolstadt

Audi Forum Ingolstadt (approx. 47 miles/75 km) »

With this combination of a museum, factory tours, new-vehicle collection arrangements, gastronomic delights and tourism services, Audi has since offered a new brand experience – for customers, visitors and employees alike – in architecturally stimulating surroundings.

Schleißheim Court Garden

Schleißheim Palace Complex (approx. 17 miles/27 km) »

Schleißheim palace complex was founded by Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria (1548-1626), who in 1597 purchased the isolated moorland farm of Schleißheim with its St Margaret's Chapel for a large sum of money from the Freising Cathedral chapter.

Monastery Schäftlarn near Munich

Monastery of Schäftlarn (approx. 38 miles/62 km) »

The monastery of Schäftlarn near Munich was founded around 762 in all probability by the cleric Waltrich with the cooperation of Duke Tassilo III.

Buchheim Collection – Museum of Imagination

Buchheim Collection - Museum of Imagination (approx. 56 miles/90 km) »

The museum, which was built specially for the collections of the painter, photographer, publisher, art writer and novelist Lothar-Günther Buchheim (architect: Günter Behnisch), lies on the shore of Lake Starnberg.

View of the Pinakothek der Moderne

Pinakothek der Moderne (approx. 24 miles/38 km) »

The Pinakothek der Moderne is one of the greatest museums of 20th and 21st century art in the world.

Exterior view Lenbachhaus

Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus in Munich (approx. 24 miles/38 km) »

The unique collection of works by Kandinsky, Marc, Münter, Klee, Macke, Jawlensky and other artists friends in the Blue Rider circle, documents Munich´s contribution to classic modernist art in the decade preceding the First World War.

Villa Stuck

Villa Stuck (approx. 24 miles/38 km) »

The Munich artist prince Franz v. Stuck designed and built his villa in 1897/98 in the style of an antique villa near the "Friedensengel" (Peace Angel) on the high bank of the Isar River.

Munich Residenz

Munich Residenz (approx. 25 miles/40 km) »

Over the centuries the Wittelsbach dynasty transformed a small, 14th-century moated castle into a magnificent palace, performing the dual functions of royal residence and government seat.


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