Munich

Munich might be most well-known for Oktoberfest. It first originated here over 200 years ago, so this is the city to head if you want the biggest and best of the annual celebrations – think colossal beer halls, live music, street food, and boisterous punters swigging steins of beer and dancing until the early hours! In fact, in Munich alone, a mega 5.5 million litres of beer is consumed throughout the Oktoberfest festival!

But Munich has much more to offer, and the Bavarian capital is also famous for its charming cobblestone streets, neighbourhood restaurants, green spaces, underground music scene, and more theatres and galleries than anywhere else in Germany. Museums range from the world-class and high-brow, like the Bavarian National Museum, to the completely and utterly obscure, such as the Kartoffelmuseum (Potato Museum) – take a trip on a Sunday, where many of the city’s museums reduce entry to only one euro.