While forcing myself up the 306 stairs leading to the top of the „Old Peter“, I kept asking myself “Why the hell are you doing this?”.
I mean, I’m not unathletic, but 306 stairs…that’s quite a lot.

The “Old peter”, or more formal: the parish church Saint Peter, is the oldest mentioned church in town and and it probably fixed the beginning of Munich. It is really close to the Marienplatz and the Viktualienmarkt and when you are up the top you can even sometimes see the Alps. The Hotel Monaco is just a 10 minutes walk away and the nice staff will love to give you information how to get there.

When you are starting to go up you always have to pay attention if someone is coming down and blocking the lower part, because the corridor is so narrow. It is impossible to squeeze two people through it.  On the way up you pass the bells of the church. They are really worth looking at.
But the best thing is the view. As I said before you can see the Alps from there and they appear so close that you think they are just a 20 minutes drive away. But that happens just during “Föhn”, which is a special type of wind.  The viewing platform is 56 m over the ground the tower has a total height of 91 m.
Every visitor to Munich has to climb up there because you get a really good overview of the city centre so that you won’t need a map again. It is also nice to relax up there and to take in a huge amount of Bavarian sunlight.

Yours Franziska

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