Munich City in Germany

In 1916, during the First World War, the city was bombed for the first time: three French bombs fell on the city.

On October 17, 1810, in honor of the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig (later King Ludwig I) and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghaus, horse races were held, which marked the beginning of the annual Oktoberfest beer festival.

Modern Munich is not only a center of cultural and museum values, but also a large industrial and research center. Thanks to its famous universities, one of the largest Bavarian state libraries in Europe with 6 million volumes, the Max Planck and Heinz Mayer-Leibnitz Institutes, a nuclear research reactor and many other institutions, Munich maintains a strong position in European science.

Munich is famous for its brewing traditions. There are six large breweries in the city, which supply beer to the world-famous Oktoberfest - a festival of beer, pretzels, fried chickens and carousels, which is held annually in late September - early October on Tereziya Luka.

Munich is a city on the Isar River in southern Germany, in the federal state of Bavaria. Free city (German: kreisfreie Stadt), which is both the capital of Bavaria and the administrative district of Upper Bavaria.