Shoppers on Marienplatz pause before noon, heads tipped back, as life-size knights joust and coopers dance in the town hall tower, replaying a royal wedding and the end of a plague. Nearby, stallholders at the Viktualienmarkt stack radishes and cheese beneath a painted maypole, where farmers have traded for generations.
Beyond the old town, students fill the cafés of Maxvorstadt, and on warm evenings whole offices seem to move to the lawns of the Englischer Garten. Summers are warm, winters cold, and a dry föhn wind from the Alps can bring a mild day in January. A Local Friend walks next to you and lets you choose the turns, filling in the stories behind each corner as you go.
