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Hamburg, Germany's second-largest city, developed over centuries into one of Europe's most important ports, and its canals and warehouses from the Hanseatic era still bear witness to a rich mercantile past. This cosmopolitan city blends the historic elegance of the Speicherstadt quarter with the vibrant nightlife of the famous Reeperbahn and the striking modern concert hall of the Elbphilharmonie. Hamburg is the perfect destination for anyone wanting to feel the pulse of a true European metropolis.
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Opened in 2017 after 10 years of construction and a threefold budget overrun — the final cost came to 789 million euros, making it one of the most expensive concert halls ever built. Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron placed the 110-metre glass structure directly on top of a former warehouse ship from 1963, merging brick and glass with no transitional zone between them. Acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota designed the interior of the Grand Hall with 10,000 individual plaster panels of varying curvature — no two are alike.
The largest unified warehouse complex in the world, built between 1883 and 1927 on wooden piles driven into the bed of the Elbe — totalling around 300,000 square metres of storage space. The red brick facades with steel cranes protruding from the upper floors remain fully functional to this day, and the canals running beneath the buildings were used to transport goods directly from ships' holds. In 2015, Speicherstadt was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List together with the neighbouring Kontorhausviertel, as a unique example of industrial-era urban planning.
A Lutheran church dating from 1762, it is one of the most iconic Baroque structures in northern Germany — its predecessor was destroyed by a lightning strike in 1750. The 132-metre tower dominates the Hamburg skyline, and the viewing platform at 106 metres offers a panoramic view of the Elbe harbour and the Alster canals. The clock face on the tower, measuring 8 metres in diameter, is the largest church clock in Hamburg — its numerals are large enough to be read from vessels on the river.
A bread roll with fish — from Matjes herring and regular herring to mackerel and North Sea prawns. Eaten on the go, at the harbour and at the fish market.
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