The opening ceremony of the 2006 Football World Cup will be held in Munich on Friday 9th June 2006. The first game of the tournament will also be played in Munich, on the 9th of June at the newly built Munich stadium at Frttmaning.
Munich has much more to offer than Football:
Munich is the Capital of Bavaria, formally a kingdom in its own right. And some of the buildings and their styles still seem to reflect this, with palaces and architecture more appropriate to a capital than to the principal city of a federal state.
Known to travellers mainly for its world famous beer festival the Oktoberfest, Munich has many traditional German beer cellars where large amounts of the local beer are consumed in large pottery mug known as steins. These are often adorned with pictures of hunting scenes or large mustachioed men surprisingly(!) appearing to be drinking generous amounts of beer.
A good way to enjoy a cheap meal out is to buy food from one of the street vendors or pastry stands (that seem to be everywhere in Munich), and eat it in a beer garden. This is entirely acceptable to the establishments, as long as you are drinking their beer! And makes a good...