A Sunday in Munich, from the Marienplatz carillon to the Eisbach surfers.

How to get there from Spain. The plan starts in Munich: you arrive the day before. There are direct flights to Franz Josef Strauss airport (MUC) from Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga and other cities; the S-Bahn S1 or S8 drops you in the centre.

A Sunday in Munich is done entirely on foot and costs little: the Marienplatz carillon is free, lunch at the city's most famous beer hall costs what a set menu costs in Spain and the Alte Pinakothek, with Dürer, Rubens and Velázquez, charges €1 on Sundays. The afternoon ends in the English Garden, watching people surf on a canal in the middle of the city.

How you get there from Spain

By air to Munich (MUC): there are direct flights from Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga, Valencia, Seville, Bilbao, Alicante, Palma and the Canary Islands. From the airport, the S-Bahn S1 or S8 drops you at Marienplatz in about 40 minutes; the Airport-City-Day-Ticket costs €17.50 and is valid all day across the whole network. This plan assumes you have already slept in the city: for example at the Hotel Torbräu, five minutes from the first stop.

The day, hour by hour

10:45 · Marienplatz and the Glockenspiel. Stand in front of the New Town Hall tower ten minutes beforehand. At 11:00 the 43 bells ring and the 32 figures move: above, the wedding of William V with its tournament; below, the coopers' dance. Counting the wait, allow half an hour. At 12:00 it is repeated with more people.

12:00 · Lunch at the Hofbräuhaus. Five minutes on foot along Orlandostraße to the Platzl. In the Schwemme, the big ground-floor hall, you sit wherever there is room without booking. Order the roast pork with dark-beer sauce (€18.90) or the knuckle (€22) and a half-litre Hofbräu (€5.80). There is live Bavarian music every day.

14:15 · Alte Pinakothek. Twenty-five minutes' walk north through the museum quarter, or tram 27 or 28 to Pinakotheken. On Sundays admission costs €1 and under-18s do not pay. Allow two and a half hours: Dürer, Rubens's Great Last Judgement, the largest painting in the museum, and the Spanish painting, with El Greco, Velázquez and Murillo's street boys.

17:00 · English Garden and the Eisbach wave. Twenty minutes on foot to the Haus der Kunst. From the Prinzregentenstraße bridge you see the surfers on the Eisbach's standing wave. Afterwards, follow the path through the English Garden to the Chinese Tower, with its Biergarten.

With children

Swap the picture gallery for the Deutsches Museum, on the Isar island, ten minutes from the Hofbräuhaus: aeroplanes, ships and experiments, free for under-6s. The Glockenspiel and the surfers appeal to all ages.