Olympiapark
The hill you climb was piled from WWII bombing rubble — then the 1972 Summer Olympics arrived and called it an architectural marvel.
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Munich's post-war Trümmerberg, a mound of wartime debris, was reshaped into the centrepiece of the 1972 Summer Olympics and never gave the land back. Today the park hosts cultural, religious, and social events throughout the year, and a contemporary carillon adds an unexpected sound for a sports venue.
What to look for
- Olympic Hill and Olympic Lake in the southern park section — the original Trümmerberg terrain
- The Olympic Tower rising from the Olympic Area alongside the Olympic Stadium and Olympic Hall
- The contemporary carillon — listen for it rather than hunt for it
The park sits in Milbertshofen-Am Hart, directly beside BMW Group headquarters — straightforward to combine both in a single half-day.
Olympiapark is one of 37 sights worth the detour in Munich, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Munich pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Munich
- Allianz ArenaThe world's first stadium with a full color-changing exterior — 75,000 seats wrapped in inflated ETFE plastic panels that can change color across the entire facade.
- Deutsches Museum125,000 objects across 50 fields of science and technology — all on a former coal island in the Isar.
- Nymphenburg PalaceAt 632 metres across, this Baroque summer palace is wider than Versailles — and it started as a birth announcement.
- Alte PinakothekThe gallery that taught Europe how to build a museum — then filled it with five centuries of Old Masters.
- FrauenkircheThe twin towers top out at just over 98 meters — Munich caps the entire city at 99 m, so nothing can overtake them on the skyline.
- Englischer GartenA Massachusetts-born American Loyalist, fleeing Britain after the Revolution, drew up plans for what became one of the world's largest urban parks.