From up high, kids get the whole city at once: red roofs, green onion domes and tiny people crossing the square below. Some views take a spiral staircase, some an easy hill path, some a cog railway into the Alps. Here's what we checked, from the church towers over Marienplatz to Germany's highest summit. Save it for a clear day, when the Alps line the horizon.
Alter Peter is the bell tower of St. Peter's, the oldest parish church in the city, beside Marienplatz. Kids climb 306 steps to a viewing platform over the old town rooftops, and on clear days the view reaches the Alps.
On the way up, windows at the belfry show the eight bells, including one cast for the city's 800th anniversary, and kids can watch them swing when they ring.
The Frauenkirche's south tower is one of the cathedral's two onion-domed towers, and the one visitors can climb. Kids walk 86 steps up a narrow spiral staircase, then ride an elevator to the tower room 80 meters up, the highest point in the old town, with windows over the rooftops and the countryside beyond.
The tight stairwell doesn't suit anyone claustrophobic.
Built for the 1972 Olympics, the park wraps around a lake and the 60-meter Olympic Hill, a grassy mound piled from wartime rubble with views over the city to the Alps. Kids climb the easy paths to the summit and run the open lawns, and there is boat hire on the Olympic Lake. SEA LIFE, minigolf and the Munich Action Park's climbing kids area sit inside the grounds.
Wendelstein is a Bavarian Alps peak with two ways up: a cog railway from Brannenburg, running since 1912, that climbs 1,217 meters through meadows and forest, or a seven-minute cable car from Bayrischzell.
At the top, kids can walk down 82 steps into Germany's highest show cave, climb the wooden play area, and walk past Germany's highest church to the Gacher Blick viewing platform.
Zugspitze is Germany's highest mountain, at 2,962 meters. A cogwheel train climbs from Garmisch-Partenkirchen past Lake Eibsee and through a 4.5 km tunnel to the glacier plateau, home to the country's highest church and, in winter, a family toboggan run.
The Gletscherbahn lifts you on to the summit platform and its golden cross. The record-breaking cable car drops two kilometers back down to Eibsee.
From up high, kids get the whole city at once: red roofs, green onion domes and tiny people crossing the square below. Some views take a spiral staircase, some an easy hill path, some a cog railway into the Alps. Here's what we checked, from the church towers over Marienplatz to Germany's highest summit. Save it for a clear day, when the Alps line the horizon.
Alter Peter is the bell tower of St. Peter's, the oldest parish church in the city, beside Marienplatz. Kids climb 306 steps to a viewing platform over the old town rooftops, and on clear days the view reaches the Alps.
On the way up, windows at the belfry show the eight bells, including one cast for the city's 800th anniversary, and kids can watch them swing when they ring.
The Frauenkirche's south tower is one of the cathedral's two onion-domed towers, and the one visitors can climb. Kids walk 86 steps up a narrow spiral staircase, then ride an elevator to the tower room 80 meters up, the highest point in the old town, with windows over the rooftops and the countryside beyond.
The tight stairwell doesn't suit anyone claustrophobic.
Built for the 1972 Olympics, the park wraps around a lake and the 60-meter Olympic Hill, a grassy mound piled from wartime rubble with views over the city to the Alps. Kids climb the easy paths to the summit and run the open lawns, and there is boat hire on the Olympic Lake. SEA LIFE, minigolf and the Munich Action Park's climbing kids area sit inside the grounds.
Wendelstein is a Bavarian Alps peak with two ways up: a cog railway from Brannenburg, running since 1912, that climbs 1,217 meters through meadows and forest, or a seven-minute cable car from Bayrischzell.
At the top, kids can walk down 82 steps into Germany's highest show cave, climb the wooden play area, and walk past Germany's highest church to the Gacher Blick viewing platform.
Zugspitze is Germany's highest mountain, at 2,962 meters. A cogwheel train climbs from Garmisch-Partenkirchen past Lake Eibsee and through a 4.5 km tunnel to the glacier plateau, home to the country's highest church and, in winter, a family toboggan run.
The Gletscherbahn lifts you on to the summit platform and its golden cross. The record-breaking cable car drops two kilometers back down to Eibsee.
