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Suggestions for your stay

Great activities for those who love football

Stopover, short trip, long weekend or a whole week: here are some ideas for those who love football.

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Sport & Freizeit
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Interview: Stefan Schneider

„I'm where the fans are“

Anyone who goes to ice hockey or an1860 match in Munich knew his voice: a 2019 interview with stadium announcer Stefan Schneider, who quit in March 2021 after more than three decades.

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Three trophies in the Erlebniswelt FC Bayern München.
FC Bayern Museum

Football museum at its best

An emotional journey: the FC Bayern Museum gives visitors the chance to get up close and personal with the successful German record breakers’ story.

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Sports & Leisure
Surfer on the Eisbach in Munich.
A typology

Surfing the Eisbach: A typology

Who are those people who congregate around Munich's world famous wave?

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Sports & Leisure
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Self-experiment: Surfing

Riding the wave

Munich is hundreds of kilometres away from the sea – and is still a world-renowned surfer metropolis. Once standing on the legendary Eisbach wave.

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Surfer on the Eisbach in the Englischer Garten in Munich.
Surfing in Munich

Eisbachwelle

The Eisbachwelle is one of Munich's top attractions – for some from a sporting point of view, for others from a tourist point of view.

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Sports & Leisure
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Bavarian sports

Bavarian triathlon

Arm wrestling, stone lifting and the wonderful art of Masskrugstemmen: our author tries out traditional Bavarian sports.

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Munich Card & City Pass

Discover Munich in a relaxed and uncomplicated way: discounts for the diverse range of art, culture and leisure activities with our guest cards.

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Suggestions for your stay

Great activities for those who love sports

Stopover, short trip, long weekend or a whole week: here are some ideas for those who love sports.

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Sports & Leisure
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Running tracks in Munich

A good run

Across the Theresienwiese, along the Isar or through the Olympiapark: six well-known locals tell us their favourite running routes in and around Munich.

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Sports & Leisure
Young man with an action from the Taekwon-Do in a forest in Munich.
Hidden Champions

“I made fun of it at first“

Munich is a city of football. But it is also more than that: Munich is full of successful top athletes – it is just that most of them are not famous. Three champions share their thoughts.

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Sports & Leisure
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Excursions

Isar-Roamers

There’s no better way to get to know the river that runs through Munich than from a canoe. Let's go paddling.

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Sightseeing

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Football tour, movie tour or a Hop-On Hop-Off tour – coach tours for individual travellers.

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