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There’s nothing morbid about this park-like former cemetery that dates back to 1866 and has since been given over to the public for recreation and relaxation. Children play on the lawn among old tombstones while adults seek shade on the benches beneath the trees.

Restored inns and hostels for day-labourers and brick workers give this corner of Haidhausen a village-like character.

A neo-Romanesque parish church, St Anna (1892) is the result of an architecture competition.

Cosmas Damian Asam acquired this 17th-century building in 1724 and decorated the façade with frescoes. The small castle houses a restaurant with a beautiful garden.

The clover-leaf BMW-tower and the bowl-shaped museum at its base are being modernized. For the next few years, the exhibits on the history of automobile design will be shown in the Earth Lounge (the parking garage deck at the Olympic Tower).

A piece of old Schwabing, this square is named after the Austrian empress. A market, the largest in the city after Viktualienmarkt, has been held here since 1903.

The Episcopal Palace is the last remaining city palace (1733–7) by François Cuvilliés. Nearby is the Baroque Palais Portia.

This Protestant Art Nouveau church occupies the northern end of the Münchner Freiheit.

Munich’s Isar beach par excellence . Every summer, sun worshippers flock to the gravel banks along the southern Isar, and many stop in at the pretty beer garden of the same name.

River rafts full of merry revellers land here in summer. Downstream, the Isar is being restored to its natural state as gravel islands, canal walls, and artificial embankments are removed. The waves and rapids at the Flößlände are a paradise for surfers, and an alternative to the frigid Eisbach near the Haus der Kunst. Nearby is the Floßlände pub and beer garden (Zentralländstraße 30), and the Asam-Schlössl.