Theatine Church
Yellow Rococo-fronted Baroque church with a soaring dome, built in thanks for a long-awaited heir.
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This guide to the Theatine Church in Munich opens with Electress Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, married at fourteen and waiting twelve years through a string of losses for an heir who would live. It follows the vow she made when her son Max Emanuel was finally born in 1662, the Roman architect she brought to Munich to build something nothing like Bavaria, and the church's strange near-century spent half-finished after her death. Stand back and take in the full seventy-one-meter dome as you listen, before stepping down into the crypt.
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