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Alter Botanischer Garten Review
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Alter Botanischer Garten
Old Botanical Garden
Gardens / Arboretums,
Maxvorstadt
Fodor's Review:
Munich's first botanical garden began as the site of a huge glass palace, built in 1853 for Germany's first industrial exhibition. In 1931 it shared the fate of a similarly palatial glass exhibition hall, London's Crystal Palace, when its garden burned to the ground; six years later it was redesigned as a public park. Two features from the 1930s remain: a small, square exhibition hall, still used for art shows, and the 1933 Neptune Fountain, an enormous work in the heavy, monumental style of the prewar years. At the international electricity exhibition of 1882, the world's first high-tension electrical cable was run from the park to a Bavarian village 48 km (30 mi) away.
INFO
- Address: Entrance at Lenbachpl., Maxvorstadt, Munich
- Metro: Karlspl. (U-bahn and S-bahn)
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