The Munich Victualienmarket during the spring time.

A spring walk through the “Viktualienmarkt” in Munich

Do you know the “Viktualienmarket“? It´s a gorgeous, very traditional grocery market, selling since hundres of years the most beautiful fancy foods.

I really fancy that place a lot, especially in spring time.

At any time of the year 150 farmers or traders are selling here the most exotic fruits as well as very old traditional vegetables, which elsewhere can hardly be found any more, honey, fresh meat or chesse, bread and so much more. The grocereies are so niceley arranged that you almost don´twant to buy anything, just in order not to destroy the wonderful arrangements.

Walking through the market is an incredible mixture of smells, colours and tastes.

And where does the name come from? “Viktualie” is an original latin word which has been used in Germany in ancient times and means nothing else than simply “groceries”.

But you cannot only buy food and spices for your kitchen, if you are getting hungry right now, there´s a wide range of little eateries where you can try the most traditional german sausages e.g., as fresh as they can hardly be found anywhere else.

A vey charming place is the little beergarden in the middle of the plaza. Each month one of the 4 biggest breweries serves here their beer, so one more reason to come more recently here.

In this beergarden you will certainly find a lot of tourists coming from all over the world, but you will find a lot of bavrians and people Munich as well – a nice little globalised world. And after some beers  language problems will be easliy overcome.

You will find even some beautiful fountains here which are dedicated to important actors of Munich, like Liesl Karlstadt or Karl Valentin.

Each day they are lovely decorated with fresh flowers.

Certainly a lot of people would love to rent or buy a stall at this market, but this is unfortunately impossible. The owners will pass theis shops on only to their families.

The market is even a stage for events on several occasions. The most interesting event here is probaly the traditional dance of the femal marketsellers during carneval.

After all those impressions a quiet finish of this spring walk is highly required. There´s two very important churches just around the corner, there´s the “Alte Peter” and the “HeiligGeist” church.

If you should decide to climb up the 306 steps to the top of St Peters tower you will be delighted by an incredible view over Munich. On some days view is possible even till to the Alps.

And that´s by far not everything you can find on the Viktualienmarket. Explore it yourself! All you need to do is to follow the beautiful smells and you will be surprised by a variety of great spring offers.

By the way: Even our hotel has some great spring offers!

And our already cosy hotel has been all renovated and new furnished rooms are awaiting you

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Sandra