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Best day trips from Munich
Kerry Walker
24 February 2021
World-famous Neuschwanstein Castle, the nineteenth-century palace is under 2 hours from Munich. ©bluejayphoto/Getty Images
If the residents of Munich look pleased with their lot, it’s little wonder. The city strides effortlessly between the urban and outdoors. Within an hour or so of the Bavarian capital’s big-hitter palaces, art collections and rollicking beer halls, you hit the Alps, where hiking trails hoof it up to cloud-shredding peaks and winter snows entice skiers.
And day trips from Munich thrill culturally, too – whether you’re up for a historic romp of Augsburg or Ulm, or a fantasy-loaded spin of one of ‘Mad’ King Ludwig’s palaces. ....

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