A fascinating history of the town with great maps and well-preserved Bavarian artefacts. There is also a puppet museum on the top floor that is a little unsettling but unique and well worth seeing. When I was there it also had an exhibition about the Nazis, an admirable example of a city facing up to its unpleasant past. The museum is free on Sundays.

St-Jacobs-Platz 1, a short walk through the marketplace from Marienplatz.
www.stadtmuseum-online.de

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Meander through this peaceful public park with its huge green spaces and shady trees to a fabulous beer garden where you can choose food and beverages from different booths: sausages, fish and chips and beers or if in recovery mode, tea and huge sugary doughnuts.

U-Bahn lines 3 and 6, alighting at Universitat or Giselastrabe

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Beautiful clean lake with extensive space around it for sitting and sunbathing. Includes FKK area.

North of the city centre, accessible by car, on on the 172 bus.

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The Waldfriedhof is a huge cemetery. However, it’s not the sort with row upon row of graves, but with lots of trees (wald-forest) and the graves in many little groups. Basically the whole thing is a great big park, with various parts, including a lake with incredibly fat fish lazing around in it.

Great place to step off the world for a few hours, take a good long walk or just flop on the grass. Bring some food and an umbrella (and a street map and compass wouldn’t hurt) as you can get lost and wander round for hours. Grave styles range from the kitschly pious (squirly Bavarian crosses with little roofs) to thoroughly modern and non-religious sculptures.

Bus routes 54, 268 and 167 go around the outside;
Nearest u-bahn: Holzapfelkreuth (u6), then get a bus or walk along Fürstenrieder str. - the Friedhof starts at the crossroads with Wurmtalstr.

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