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List of parks and gardens in the German city of Hamburg. Hamburg is one of Europe's greenest metropolises, with parks and gardens alone making up eight percent of the city's land area, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in addition to even larger percentages for nature reserves and agricultural land areas.
Hamburg (/ ˈ h æ m b ɜːr ɡ /; [7] German: [ˈhambʊʁk] ⓘ, [8] locally also [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç] ⓘ; Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhambɔːç] ⓘ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, [9] [a] is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 6th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million.
1. Cologne, Germany. If Europe is on your list of places to travel in December, Sula highly recommends booking a plane ticket to Cologne, Germany—especially if you’re interested in ...
In 1863, the elder Hagenbeck began collecting exotic animals that came through Hamburg's port. By the 1870s, the trade had proved more lucrative than his fish shop, and Hagenbeck had become one of the most prominent exotic animal traders in all of Europe. [2] In 1874, the younger Hagenbeck traveled around the world collecting animals.
Don't miss Christkindelsmärikat at Place Broglie, the oldest of the markets, founded in 1570. Sip mulled wine while savoring traditional Alsatian gingerbread, sausages, baguette flambée (wood ...
Oh, December. The glacial last month of the year stirs visions of snow-covered hills, wooden toboggans, hot cocoa with mini marshmallows and ripping open presents while fluffy powder falls outside.
On 30 December 1920 the society was liquidated and on 21 January 1921 the zoo closed. A new group of investors, the Hamburg Zoological Garden Corporation, took over the zoo, and rebuilt it to a massive collection, including 882 species and subspecies, but following the 1929 stock market crash, the zoo headed again toward bankruptcy. An attempt ...
If you visit a supermarket, your kids may be surprised to learn that in many European countries, customers are expected to bag their own groceries and a coin is required to borrow a shopping cart. 14.