The Residence (German: Residenz) is the former royal palace of the Bavarian monarchs in the city center of Munich, Germany. The Residence is the largest downtown palace in the country and serves today as one of the finest room decoration museums in Europe.
The complex of buildings contains ten courtyards and the museum displays 130 rooms. The three main parts are the Königsbau (near the Max-Joseph-Platz), the Alte Residenz (towards the Residenzst...
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The Residence (German: Residenz) is the former royal palace of the Bavarian monarchs in the city center of Munich, Germany. The Residence is the largest downtown palace in the country and serves today as one of the finest room decoration museums in Europe.
The complex of buildings contains ten courtyards and the museum displays 130 rooms. The three main parts are the Königsbau (near the Max-Joseph-Platz), the Alte Residenz (towards the Residenzstraße) and the Festsaalbau (towards the Hofgarten). A wing of the Festsaalbau contains the Cuvilliés Theatre since the reconstruction of the Residence after World War II.
The first buildings at this site were erected in the year 1385. The sturdy new castle (Neuveste - new fortress), surrounded by wide moats at what used to be the very north eastern corner of the new double ring of walls, replaced the difficoult to defend Old Court in the middle of the town as residence of the Wittelsbach rulers. The dukes of the multiply divided country felt...
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