Monopteros im Englischen Garten
Ten-columned Greek-style round temple atop a man-made hill, prized as a scenic overlook and 1960s counterculture gathering spot.
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This guide to the Monopteros in Munich's English Garden traces a king's ambition to make the city feel like ancient Greece, from Ludwig the First's order to pile leftover palace stone into an artificial hill through the temple built atop it in the eighteen thirties, designed by court architect Leo von Klenze in place of an older wooden shrine to Apollo. It also follows the sharp turn the meadow below took a century later, when a very different crowd began gathering there. Look down the slope toward that meadow as you listen.
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