Rathaus-Glockenspiel

This guide to the Rathaus-Glockenspiel in Munich follows the two scenes its forty-three bells and life-sized figures have performed above Marienplatz since 1908: knights jousting to reenact a 1568 ducal wedding, and barrel-makers dancing what's known as the Schafflertanz. You'll hear the legend behind that coopers' dance, involving a supposed plague in 1517, and what the actual documentary record from Munich's magistrate shows instead. Stay through to the end for the small golden rooster that closes the show.