Berlitz Pocket Guide With its relaxed, almost Mediterranean ambience, Munich, the capital of Bavaria, is one of Europe"s most engaging cities, one packed with fascinating history, world-class culture and traditional food, and with the outdoor playground of the Alps just a short hop away. The city"s genius has always been its ability to combine the Germanic talent for getting things done with a specifically Bavarian need to do them in an agreeable way. Business lunches always seem a little longer here, and office hours a little shorter. Yet no one who has witnessed the city"s impressive affluence, its dynamic car industry and its super-efficient public transport system would suggest that this refreshingly relaxed attitude was unproductive. Munich and Bavaria are Germany"s most popular tourist destinations. According to opinion polls, it"s also the city Tourists at Odeonsplatz that Germans would most like to call home. It is not just the elegance and prosperity of the place that make it such...