Hamburg

💡 About Hamburg

Hamburg, Germany's second-largest city and its greatest port, is a wealthy, water-laced metropolis where the River Elbe meets a network of canals crossed by more bridges than Venice and Amsterdam combined. For centuries it was a proud free city of the Hanseatic League.

The historic Speicherstadt, the world's largest warehouse district, rises from the water on timber piles, and the futuristic Elbphilharmonie concert hall — a glittering glass wave atop an old brick warehouse — has become the city's soaring new landmark.

Hamburg is famous for its maritime heritage, its vast harbour and the legendary nightlife of the Reeperbahn, where the Beatles honed their sound in the early 1960s. Green, elegant and open to the world, it is one of Germany's most liveable cities.

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