Hamburgo

Hamburgo is the second-largest city in the Alemanha and a city-state, with its own government, like Berlim and Bremen. It lies in the north of the country, on the banks of the river Elba, about 100 km from the North Sea, and faces one of the largest ports in Europe. A former member of the Hanseatic League, it still styles itself as Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Cidade Livre e Hanseática de Hamburgo).

The port shapes the itinerary. The red-brick warehouses of the Speicherstadt, built over canals, together with the Kontorhausviertel and the Chilehaus form a UNESCO-listed ensemble. Next to them, the HafenCity is the new neighborhood erected on former port areas, with the Elbphilharmonie at the tip, and from the Landungsbrücken the boats depart that tour docks and shipyards.

In the center, the neo-Renaissance city hall (Rathaus) is a few steps from the Binnenalster, the urban lake surrounded by white façades. Further north, the Außenalster is the place for rowing, sailing and walking. Church towers mark the skyline: the Michel, with an observation deck, and the tower of the former church of St. Nikolai, today a memorial to the victims of the World War II bombings.

Hamburgo also has heavyweight museums, such as the Kunsthalle and the Museu Marítimo Internacional, the world's largest model railway at the Miniatur Wunderland, and neighborhoods with their own character like the Schanzenviertel and Blankenese, the former fishing village with stairways on the banks of the Elba. On early Sunday mornings, the Fischmarkt in Altona keeps a tradition of more than 300 years.

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