The Propylaea
A columned stone gateway modelled on the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens. The square's best-known feature.
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Not for the square — it is an open public space. Tickets are needed only for the two museums beside it, and each has its own.
Half an hour covers walking the square and seeing the gateway. Add an hour per museum if ancient art interests you.
The whole museum quarter surrounds it: the Alte and Neue Pinakothek are minutes on foot, with paintings from many periods. The area is easy to walk.
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Königsplatz is a large open square in Munich, built in the nineteenth century in an ancient Greek style. King Ludwig I wanted his capital to look like Athens, so he had a huge columned gateway put up with a building on either side of the square. Both buildings are museums: the Glyptothek, holding original Greek and Roman sculpture, and the State Collection of Antiquities, with old pottery and jewellery. The gateway in the middle is called the Propylaea and copies the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens. The square has a difficult history too. In the 1930s the Nazi regime used it for large ceremonies and paved it over in stone. That was removed after the war and the grass came back. The foundations of two Nazi buildings remain at the edge, deliberately left visible with panels explaining them. The square itself is free and always open. The museums need separate tickets and close on Mondays.
A columned stone gateway modelled on the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens. The square's best-known feature.
A museum of original Greek and Roman sculpture in a calm, top-lit building of arches.
The bases of two 1930s buildings, left exposed at the edge of the square with panels explaining them.
Königsplatz, 80333 München