Beautiful & Grand!!!

Impressive Gothic cathedral that was the inspiration for Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

It is a must in Paris!!!!

 This iconic triumphal arch forms the focus of the main east-west road axis of Paris. The monument was commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 as a tribute to his victories as Emperor of France - it was finally completed in 1836. 50 m (150 ft) high and 45 m wide, the Arc de Triomphe is decorated with battle scenes and martial sculptures that includes La Marseillaise by Rude. More recently, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was placed beneath the arch in 1920, where an eternal flame burns in tribute to the French dead of both World Wars. The arch is surrounded by a large roundabout. The central island and the arch are accessed by an underground passage. 

Saint! Saint! Saint!!!!!!

 This wedding cake-white church rises visibly above the northern parts of Paris. The striking building with its towers and white onion dome (83 m high) were built in the years between 1875 and 1914 on the birthplace of La Commune, officially as an act of penitence for the sins committed during the civil war in which thousands of Communards were executed, as well as for the bloodshed of the 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war which followed.

Versailles is a city on western edge of the French capital city Paris, now part of the sprawling metropolis within the Ile de France region. Versailles is best known for being the site of the vast royal palace and gardens built by King Louis XIV within what was previously a royal hunting lodge. It is also one of the most wealthy neighbourhoods near Paris.

One of the finest museums in the world of art, art-history, and culture. Home of the Mona Lisa.

Louvre

海布倫宮(Schloss Hellbrunn)，德文的意思是「水泉的夏宮」，夏宮分三大部分：夏宮 (Schloss)、花園 (Park)及噴泉公園(Wasserspiele)，而這個噴泉公園就獨立出來，獨立收費，且遊客若要到噴泉公園部分，一定要跟Guided tour，因為導遊會令你開懷大笑，也會令你如落湯雞一樣。

海布倫宮建成於1620年，由一個好有幽默感、貪玩、多情的主教Markus Sittikus 委託一意大利建築師設計的。他愛跟客人開玩笑，例如guided tour頭一個環節，是團友們聚集在一個小羅馬廣場，場中心有一張如4張乒乓球臺般大的古老石臺，兩邊有一排石凳，導遊介紹了公園及一些守則後，就問我們誰有興趣坐下來玩遊戲? 原來是看誰不夠好彩，凳下已裝有水喉，九個人當中，就只有一個可以「全身而退」，據說這一個位就是以前主教坐的。而我們做觀眾的，以為可以幸災樂禍，當你嘻嘻哈哈開懷指笑他們時，就驚覺我們一班觀眾的身邊竟然又有水柱射出！哭笑不得，但也讓每個人都更投入！

Hellbrunn Palace (German: Schloss Hellbrunn) is an early Baroque villa of palatial size, near Morzg, a southern district of the city of Salzburg, Austria. It was built in 1613-19 by Markus Sittikus von Hohenems, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, and named for the "clear spring" that supplied it. Hellbrunn was only meant for use as a day residence in summer, as the Archbishop usually returned to Salzburg in the evening. Therefore, there is no bedroom in Hellbrunn.

Schloss Hellbrunn

Schloss Hellbrunn - exhibition hall

Schloss Hellbrunn - exhibition hall

Schloss Hellbrunn - exhibition hall

Schloss Hellbrunn - Garden

著名的格切特街(Getreidegasse)，名店林立，最特別的是每家店外精心設計、獨一無二的門牌。
薩爾斯堡市中心最熱鬧的一條街道，整條街道最吸引人的，就是精雕細琢的鐵鑄招牌，每一個都深具特色。街道兩旁林立著各種精品店、藝廊、餐廳與咖啡廳，不過，我們到的時候已經是下午7點多了，除了餐廳之外，許多店面早就已經店門深鎖，我們只能Window Shopping，但這一點都不會影響我們逛街的興致，反而覺得在只有少數幾個人經過的街道逛起來，還挺舒服的呢！

Getreidegasse (also known as Grain Lane) is a busy shopping street in the Old-Town section of Salzburg. The house at no. 9 Getreidegasse is the place where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and where he lived until the age of 17. Originally called Trabegasse (derived from Traben - to trot), its name was changed several times before it became the Grain Lane.

Every day, you can see the famous 'puppet woman' with her brown basket on this street. She is a lady named Maria and has been selling puppets there since 1987.[1].

schwarzes rossl

The Anif Palace, also known as Water Palace Anif, stands beside an artificial pond within the Austrian county of Anif at the southern edge of the city of Salzburg. Anif is most famous for its use in several movies, including The Sound of Music and Frederick Forsyth's The Odessa File.

St. Stephen's Cathedral (German: Stephansdom) is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, OP. Its current Romanesque and Gothic form seen today, situated at the heart of Vienna, Austria in the Stephansplatz, was largely initiated by Rudolf IV and stands on the ruins of two earlier churches, the first being a parish church consecrated in 1147. As the most important religious building in Austria's capital, the cathedral has borne witness to many important events in that nation's history and has, with its multi-colored tile roof, become one of the city's most recognizable symbols.

The Hundertwasser House Vienna (German: Hundertwasserhaus Wien) is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, designed by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. This landmark of Vienna is located in the 3. district, Kegelgasse 34-38 / Löwengasse 41-43, at [IMG http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png]48°12′26″N 16°23′39″E. / 48.20722°N 16.39417°E / 48.20722; 16.39417

The house was built between 1983 and 1986 by architects Univ.-Prof. Joseph Krawina and Peter Pelikan. It features undulating floors ("an uneven floor is a divine melody to the feet"[1]), a roof covered with earth and grass, and large trees growing from inside the rooms, with limbs extending from windows. Hundertwasser took no payment for the design of the house, declaring that it was worth it, to prevent something ugly from going up in its place.

Within the house there are 52 apartments, four offices, 16 private terraces and three communal terraces, and a total of 250 trees and bushes. The Hundertwasser House is one of Vienna's most visited buildings and has become part of Austria's cultural heritage.[2]

 Hundertwasser House

聖史蒂芬附近的兩條街，每到傍晚有很多街頭表演，這一帶亦是維也納最繁華的購物區，貨物精美但價格不便宜。另外，有些江湖藝人表演並販賣一些有趣的紀念品。

Lafayette

Classified historic building in 1989, the restaurant has already known two centuries and is well prepared to get through this brand new one. It is both a prestigious actor of the restaurant business and a privileged witness of parisian life. In this wonderful place, favourable for sweet nostalgy, fifty billions bellies have been satisfied since its creation.
So the description below that would like to satisfy your curiosity will of course not replace a nice visit 7th, rue du faubourg Montmartre, in the ninth district, the best place to feel Paris.

It seems that you enter to work at Chartier as if you intend to enter in religion.
This principle is tacitly admited as only four different owners have ruled the place since its creation in 1896. As well the crew "makes" the place, daily honouring their engagement dressed in their traditional room clothes, le rondin (a black waistcoat with many pockets) and the long white apron.

Above all, and since the very first meal served, the same simple and beautiful ambition is guiding the owners. At the turn of the 19th century, the idea was to serve for a very small price a real hot meal to the blue collar and the people of the neighbourhood: the wellknown "bouillon", a mixture of meat and vegetables.
Today, only the diversity of the clients and the menu have changed.

But at Chartier, where discretion is a master word, a certain spirit remains, a behaviour that turns any client into a converted. Engagement and respect of the customers are not vain words. To whom who can observe, the restaurant is a proof itself. No silk, no cristal, no silverware, but the soul and the authenticity of a unique and timeless place.

You come in through a nice wooden entrance in this place that has "no history with History" quoting the arts person and owner Daniel Lemaire. Vast and clear, the room has glass ceilings and mouldings. Tall mirrors accentuate the perspective, a stair climbs you up to another room where you might find a free place left to sit. Little wooden chairs surrounding tables firmly anchored on the ground with their cast-iron feet. Glossed copper and wood everywhere warm the clients.

At Chartier you feel as if you were at home and elsewhere as well. With the sensation that you are a guest, not only a customer. The pleasure to be here, very tranquil at your place but also being part of the client's community.
And what about these famous wooden racks with numbered drawers laid out along the room? These symbols of Chartier, as old as the restaurant itself, when every customer had its own napkin and could store it in.

We know the customers make the restaurant. Sounds, tastes, smells, sight, everything converge so you will not miss a thing of this fabulous banquet of the senses. But the story of Chartier is the one you tell.

 Passage de Panorama

The Pont Alexandre bridge is one of the most attractive bridges in the French capital.  It crosses the Seine near the Grand Palais (i.e. the glass roofed building in the distance).

The structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance arch for the Exposition Universelle, a World's Fair marking the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Three hundred workers joined together 18,038 pieces of puddled iron (a very pure form of structural iron), using two and a half million rivets, in a structural design by Maurice Koechlin. The co-architects of the Eiffel Tower were Emile Nouguier, Maurice Koechlin and Stephen Sauvestre.[11] The risk of accident was great as, unlike modern skyscrapers, the tower is an open frame without any intermediate floors except the two platforms. However, because Eiffel took safety precautions, including the use of movable stagings, guard-rails and screens, only one man died. The tower was inaugurated on 31 March 1889, and opened on 6 May.

The tower was much criticised by the public when it was built, with many calling it an eyesore. Newspapers of the day were filled with angry letters from the arts community of Paris. One is quoted extensively in William Watson's US Government Printing Office publication of 1892 Paris Universal Exposition: Civil Engineering, Public Works, and Architecture: “And during twenty years we shall see, stretching over the entire city, still thrilling with the genius of so many centuries, we shall see stretching out like a black blot the odious shadow of the odious column built up of riveted iron plates.”[12] Signers of this letter included Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, Charles Gounod, Charles Garnier, Jean-Léon Gérôme, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, and Alexandre Dumas.

Novelist Guy de Maupassant—who claimed to hate the tower[13]—supposedly ate lunch in the Tower's restaurant every day. When asked why, he answered that it was the one place in Paris where one could not see the structure. Today, the Tower is widely considered[by whom?] to be a striking piece of structural art.

One of the great Hollywood movie clichés is that the view from a Parisian window always includes the tower. In reality, since zoning restrictions limit the height of most buildings in Paris to 7 stories, only a very few of the taller buildings have a clear view of the tower.

Eiffel had a permit for the tower to stand for 20 years; it was to be dismantled in 1909, when its ownership would revert to the City of Paris. The City had planned to tear it down (part of the original contest rules for designing a tower was that it could be easily demolished) but as the tower proved valuable for communication purposes, it was allowed to remain after the expiry of the permit. The military used it to dispatch Parisian taxis to the front line during the First Battle of the Marne.

Paris from Eiffle Tower

Moulin Rouge (French pronunciation: [mulɛ̃ ʁuʒ], Red Mill) is a cabaret built in 1889 by Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. Close to Montmartre in the Paris red-light district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, it is marked by the red windmill on its roof. The closest métro station is Blanche.

The Moulin Rouge is best known as the spiritual birthplace of the modern form of the can-can dance. Originally introduced as a seductive dance by the courtesans who operated from the site, the can-can dance revue evolved into a form of entertainment of its own and led to the introduction of cabarets across Europe. Today the Moulin Rouge is a tourist destination, offering musical dance entertainment for visitors from around the world. Much of the romance of turn-of-the-century France is still present in the club's decor.

Pont on Seine

Tourist Meal !!!!

Marche Bastille

The Panthéon (Latin: Pantheon,[1] from Greek Pantheon, meaning "Every god") is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris, containing the remains of distinguished French citizens.

In 1744, King Louis XV of France suffered from a serious illness and vowed to replace the old church of the Abbey of St Genevieve if he recovered. He did recover, and entrusted Abel-François Poisson, marquis de Marigny with the fulfillment of his vow. In 1755, Marigny commissioned Jacques-Germain Soufflot to design the church, with construction beginning two years later. Due to the economic problems in France at this time, work proceeded slowly. In 1780, Soufflot died and was replaced by his student, Jean-Baptiste Rondelet. The remodeled Abbey of St. Genevieve was finally completed in 1790, but during the early stages of the French Revolution, the National Constituent Assembly decided to convert it into a secular mausoleum for prominent Frenchmen, retaining Quatremère de Quincy to oversee the project.

It is an early example of neoclassicism, with a façade modeled on the Pantheon in Rome, surmounted by a dome that owes some of its character to Bramante's "Tempietto". Located in the 5th arrondissement on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, the Panthéon looks out over all of Paris. Soufflot had the intention of combining the lightness and brightness of the gothic cathedral with classical principles, but its role as a mausoleum required the great gothic windows to be blocked. Nevertheless, it is one of the most important architectural achievements of its time and the first great neoclassical monument.

St. Gemain Des Pres

Place del Opera

The Église de la Sainte-Trinité is a Roman Catholic church located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The church is a building of the Second Empire period, built between 1861 and 1867 at a cost of almost 4 million francs.

La Trinité, as it is known, was designed by Théodore Ballu as part of the beautification and reorganization of Paris under Baron Haussmann. Exterior figures of Faith, Hope, and Charity on the church were sculpted by Eugène-Louis Lequesne. The church has a bell tower 63 metres high topped by a dome. The choir is ten steps higher than the nave and surrounded by an ambulatory.[1] Also named after it are the rue de La Trinité and the square de La Trinité.

L'église de la Madeleine (French pronunciation: [leɡliz də la madəlɛn], Madeleine Church; more formally, L'église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine; less formally, just La Madeleine) is a Roman Catholic church occupying a commanding position in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It was designed in its present form as a temple to the glory of Napoleon's army. To its south lies the Place de la Concorde, to the east is the Place Vendôme, and to the west L'église Saint-Augustin

The Eiffel Tower (French: La Tour Eiffel, [tuʁ ɛfɛl], nickname La dame de fer, the iron woman) is an 1889 iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris that has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The Eiffel Tower, which is the tallest building in Paris,[10] is the single most visited paid monument in the world; millions of people ascend it every year. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower was built as the entrance arch for the 1889 World's Fair.

The tower stands 324 m (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-story building. It was the tallest man-made structure in the world from its completion until the Chrysler Building in New York City was built in 1930. Not including broadcast antennas, it is the second-tallest structure in France after the 2004 Millau Viaduct.

The tower has three levels for visitors. Tickets can be purchased to ascend by stairs or lift to the first and second levels. The walk to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the walk from the first to the second level. The third and highest level is accessible only by lift. Both the first and second levels feature restaurants.

The tower has become the most prominent symbol of both Paris and France, often in the establishing shot of films set in the city.

 One of the finest museums in the world of art, art-history, and culture. Home of the Mona Lisa.

The Musée du Louvre (French pronunciation: [myze dy luvʁ]), or officially Grand Louvre — in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre — is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited museum in the world, and a historic monument. It is a central landmark of Paris, France and is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet).

The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are still visible. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1672, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of antique sculpture.[4] In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons. The Académie remained at the Louvre for 100 years.[5] During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum, to display the nation's masterpieces.

The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being confiscated church and royal property. Because of structural problems with the building, the museum was closed in 1796 until 1801. The size of the collection increased under Napoleon when the museum was renamed the Musée Napoléon. After his defeat at Waterloo, many works seized by Napoleon's armies were returned to their original owners. The collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the Second French Empire the museum gained 20,000 pieces. Holdings have grown steadily through donations and gifts since the Third Republic, except during the two World Wars. As of 2008, the collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings.

Louvre

Louvre - housing one of the world's great museums since 1793, the former palace offers some dazzling architecture, wide public spaces and the glass pyramid of I M Pei.

在貝希特斯加登鹽礦於1517年，在任期內的主普羅沃斯特 格雷戈爾賴 減少 礦鹽 上升。第一 隧道 是彼得堡隧道。在時間無關 貝希特斯加登王子教務長 但12日以來已世紀，在不久的鹽開採附近Gollnbach自1194年在附近 謝倫伯格 自第一千一百九十三鹽開採是經濟的支柱主教務長和政治獨立的基礎。

如 鹽水 從1517年擔任該舍倫貝格爾鹽漬，在1564年在鹽漬弗勞羅伊特貝希特斯加登。協會收到後，王子在1810年教務長貝希特斯加登拜仁 格奧爾格弗里德里希馮亨巴哈 1816年委託 鹽水 後 賴興哈爾 成立，有困難的，因為世紀密集林業和有限的集水面積在貝希特斯加登，燃料的供應。鹵水線運作1817至1927年，是由於長29公里，高度顯著性差異作為一個技術傑作。由她率領貝希特斯加登 拉姆紹 在傳遞 Schwarzbachwacht 以賴興哈爾。較低的利率就過渡到賴興哈爾 霍爾塔 當時仍然在奧地利領土和退出路線。開始20世紀設置在貝希特斯加登鹽漬廠完成，由於鹵水煮的貝希特斯加登只在巴特賴興哈爾。歷史悠久的鹽水接著一個鹽水一些新的路線，但也是一個領導者在通過Schwarzbachwacht到巴特賴興哈爾。今日 第三鹽水 霍爾的線索塔。

該設施屬於國家所有的世紀。因在1927年由巴伐利亞州政府迄今為 國有企業 進行採礦活動的 行李處理系統，巴伐利亞伯格-，胡滕和鹽場 股份公司，其中包括鹽礦貝希特斯加登，仍是唯一的股東自由邦。 1991年出售土地的股份的 斯卡維特羅斯特貝格。 1995年Südsalz GmbH是建立和鹽礦在貝希特斯加登的介紹。該Südsalz公司現在是附屬 德國西南鹽工程有限公司。

訪客的入口路線礦是開放旅遊和使用，每年約40萬遊客。參觀者線在2007年和現代化的多媒體寓教於樂顯示的名稱 SaltTimeJourney - 冒險礦貝希特斯加登 重開。[ 1] 通過A驅動器顯示的演變礦山採礦方法和步驟進一步加工的鹽現場，隨著多媒體演示的主題。進入和退出是對穿在外衣貝格曼 礦飛車。後來，遊客可以使用礦工幻燈片，並採取一騎鹽湖。還特別活動，例如音樂會和晚餐德索爾進行了礦井中。

The scenery around Lake Königssee in the heart of the National Park is known around the world. Steep cliffs, a Fjord-like lake and the deep forests of the Berchtesgaden National Park form a picturesque setting. The boat ride to the world-famous Chapel of St. Bartholomew is highlighted by the echoed strains of a Flugelhorn.

被譽為全德國最清澈的湖泊，國王湖當之無愧。全長8公里，最闊處有1.25公里，水深達200米，湖四面都被高達3千米的雪山包圍，湖水就是來自這些雪山融化出來無污染的水。

整個湖就只有北面一個小峽谷入口，乘坐遊船便是從這裡出發，約半小時的船程，沿途會有船夫導賞，他還會對住峽谷的"回音壁"吹號角助興呢！遊船最後到達國王湖西南面的一個小半島。在這裡有一間紅洋蔥頭的教堂St. Bartholoma。可不要小看它，建於1134年，自古以來是僧侶修行的世外桃源，直至17世紀被國王加建為打獵行宮，現時已被改裝為餐室供遊人使用，也是德國健行者前進國家公園的補給站。

Breakfest in Hotel

During the morning!

薩爾斯堡市中心的山岡上，俯視整個薩爾斯堡市景色，而且在這山岡上建有一座歷史悠久的荷恩薩爾斯堡 (Festung Hohen-Salzburg) ，這座城堡建於 1077 年，亦是薩爾斯堡市的象徵，如果不想浪費氣力，可以乘搭登山纜車上山，為了省錢關係，筆者只好徒步上山，欣賞薩爾斯堡市的迷人景色。

from Festung Hohen looking over Salzburg!!!!

Exhibition in 荷恩薩爾斯堡

Opened 22 March 1933,[1] Dachau concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager (KZ) Dachau, IPA: [ˈdaxaʊ]) was the first Nazi concentration camp opened in Germany, located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (9.9 mi) northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, which is located in southern Germany. It was the first regular concentration camp established by the coalition government of the National Socialist Party (Nazi Party) and the German Nationalist People's Party (dissolved on 6 July 1933). Heinrich Himmler, Chief of Police of Munich, officially described the camp as "the first concentration camp for political prisoners."

Dachau served as a prototype and model for the other Nazi concentration camps that followed. Almost every community in Germany had members taken away to these camps, and as early as 1935 there were jingles warning: "Dear God, make me dumb, that I may not to Dachau come."

The camp's basic organization: layout as well as building plans, were developed by Kommandant Theodor Eicke and were applied to all later camps. He had a separate secure camp near the command center, which consisted of living quarters, administration, and army camps. Eicke himself became the chief inspector for all concentration camps, responsible for molding the others according to his model.

The camp was occupied from 1933 to 1960, the first twelve years as an internment center of the Third Reich. From 1933 to 1938 the prisoners were mainly German nationals detained for political reasons. In 1938 and after a significant population of German Jews were added. Subsequently the camp was used for prisoners of all sorts from every nation occupied by the forces of the Third Reich.[4] From 1945 through 1948 the camp was used as a prison for SS officers awaiting trial. After 1948 the German population expelled from Czechoslovakia were housed there and it was also a base of the United States. It was closed in 1960 and thereafter at the insistence of ex-prisoners various sorts of memorials began to be constructed there.

Over its twelve years as a concentration camp, the Dachau administration recorded the intake of 206,206 prisoners and 31,951 deaths. Crematoria were constructed to dispose of the deceased. These numbers do not tell the entire story, however. Although there is no evidence of mass murder within the camp by methods other than poor sanitation, deprivation of medical care, withholding of nutrients, medical experiments, and beatings and shootings for infractions of the rules or at random, beginning in 1942 more than 3166 prisoners in weakened condition were transported to Hartheim Castle near Linz and there were executed by poison gas for reason of their unfitness. In 1941 and 1942 an unknown number of prisoners of war from the Soviet Union were executed by shooting at the camp's surrounding firing ranges, some for target practice and for sport.

Together with the much larger Auschwitz, Dachau has come to symbolize the Nazi concentration camps to many people. Konzentrationslager (KZ) Dachau holds a significant place in public memory because it was the second camp to be liberated by British or American forces. Therefore, it was one of the first places where these previously unknown Nazi practices were exposed to the Western world through firsthand journalist accounts and through newsreels.

Marienplatz (en: Mary's Square, i.e. St. Mary, Our Lady's Square) is a central square in the city center of Munich, Germany since 1158.
Marienplatz was named after the Mariensäule, a Marian column erected in its centre in 1638 to celebrate the end of Swedish occupation. Today the Marienplatz is dominated by the New City Hall (Neues Rathaus) on the north side. The Glockenspiel in the tower of the new city hall was inspired by these tournaments, and draws millions of tourists a year. At the east side Munich's Old City Hall (Altes Rathaus) is located. It's a gothic council hall and ballroom and tower, which have been reconstructed.

The pedestrian zone between Karlsplatz and Marienplatz is a crowded area with numerous shops and restaurants.

The Marienplatz S-Bahn and U-Bahn station, an important transportation hub, is located below the square.

The Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in München (state court-brewery in Munich, also Hofbräu München) is a brewery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, owned by the state government. The Hof (court) comes from the brewery's history as a royal brewery in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

The brewery owns the Hofbräuhaus am Platzl, the Hofbräukeller and the second largest tent at the Oktoberfest (Hofbräu-Festzelt). Its own brew is the only beer served

The New Town Hall (German: Neues Rathaus) is a town hall at the northern part of Marienplatz in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It hosts the city government including the city council, offices of the mayors and part of the administration. In 1874 the municipality had left the Old Town Hall for its new domicile.

Oktoberfest is a 16-day festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, running from late September to early October. It is one of the most famous events in Germany and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending every year. The Oktoberfest is an important part of Bavarian culture. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations, modeled after the Munich event.

The Munich Oktoberfest, traditionally, takes place during the sixteen days up to and including the first Sunday in October. In 1994, the schedule was modified in response to German reunification so that if the first Sunday in October falls on the 1st or 2nd, then the festival will go on until October 3 (German Unity Day). Thus, the festival is now 17 days when the 1st Sunday is October 2 and 18 days when it is October 1. The festival is held on an area named the Theresienwiese (field, or meadow, of Therese), often called d’ Wiesn for short.

Visitors also eat huge amounts of traditional hearty fare such as Hendl (chicken), Schweinsbraten (roast pork), Haxn (pork knuckle),[citation needed] Steckerlfisch (grilled fish on a stick), Würstl (sausages) along with Brezel (Pretzel), Knödeln (potato or bread dumplings), Kaasspotzn (cheese noodles), Reiberdatschi (potato pancakes), Sauerkraut or Blaukraut (red cabbage) along with such Bavarian delicacies as Obatzda (a fatty, spiced cheese-butter concoction) and Weisswurst (a white sausage).