Munich’s masterstroke is adjacency: the English Garden’s southern meadows begin 400 meters from the Residenz, which means the entire Altstadt has a forest-scale cooling reservoir next door. The Eisbach stream pulls cold alpine water through the park, and the beer gardens — Chinese Tower, Seehaus — sit under horse-chestnut canopies planted two centuries ago precisely to keep the beer cellars cool.
These picks run the garden’s shaded southern paths and the Altstadt connectors. The chestnuts are the point: Bavaria’s shade infrastructure predates the term.