Kaufingerstraße

This guide to Kaufingerstraße in Munich starts with an outline of colored stones in the pavement, marking a building that no longer exists. It traces the Upper Gate that stood here from 1239, the merchant Kaufinger family who gave the street its name, and the Schöner Turm, the beautiful tower the gate became after a late-Gothic rebuilding with a clock and frescoes. Best heard standing right at the corner where the pavement's stone outline begins.