Munich I

I know you can't see much, but right at the centre of the pictures, there is a grey mass. It's a hawk, busy playing with food (in that case, a mouse). I was reading on a bench in the English Garden, and I could hear squealing and leaves rustling, but couldn't see anything. It took me a while to figure out what was happening not five feet behind me.

Three pictures above were taken in the Theatinerkirche

Inside the small square of the Neues Rathaus (New town hall)

View of the tower from the square

Tower, but viewed from Marienplatz

Same, but different.

From Marienplatz, Heilig Geist Kirche in the background

Detail from a tombstone set in the wall of the Heilig Geist Kirche

Alter Peter Kirche ("Old Peter's Church", but really it's St Peter's church)

Remains of St Munditia (Christian martyr, beheaded with a hatchet in 310 AD).

Patron saint of single and unmarried women.

House on Rindermarkt

Frauenkirche - black marble memorial grave of Prince Elector Kurfürst Maximilan I

Frauenkirche, front

Two memorials in one! The statue honours the Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594) on Promenadeplatz. 

At the foot of the memorial is, well, a makeshift votive altar honouring the late Michael Jackson (he apparently stayed in a hotel across the street when he came to Munich, that's why the fans picked this location, otherwise I really can't see any common point between Orlande and Michael). 

The aptly-named Obelisk, on Karolinenplatz. Designed by Leo von Klenze, court architect to King Ludwig I. Erected in 1833, it honours the 30,000 Bavarian soldiers who gave their lives in Napoleon's 1812 campaign against Russia. It's 29 meters high and, much like the lions on Trafalgar Square which were melted from Napoleon's cannonballs, the metal plates on it were melted from weapons of the Turkish army taken during the Battle of Navarino.

Glyptothek, on Königsplatz

Staatliche Antikensammlungen, on Königsplatz

Propyläen, still on Königsplatz

Same as in Bern!

Lawn behind the Alte Pinakothek (Old Painting Gallery)

University of Television and Film

Pinakothek der Moderne

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