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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 ...
Entrance of Hamburger Dom at night in 2008.. The Hamburger Dom [1] is a large fair held at the Heiligengeistfeld fair ground in central Hamburg, Germany.With three fairs (spring, summer and winter) per year it is the biggest and the longest fair throughout Germany and attracts approximately ten million visitors per year.
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.
The Miniatur Wunderland (German for: "Miniature Wonderland") is, according to Guinness World Records, the largest model railway system in the world. [2] It is located at the historic Speicherstadt in Hamburg and is one of the most popular and most visited sights in Germany.
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 ...
St. Pauli (Sankt Pauli; German: [ˌzaŋkt ˈpaʊli] ⓘ) is a quarter of the city of Hamburg belonging to the centrally located Hamburg-Mitte borough. Situated on the right bank of the Elbe river, the nearby Landungsbrücken is a northern part of the port of Hamburg.
Detail of a 1790s map of Hamburg. The area of today's Altstadt had a minor Bronze Age settlement dating from the 9th or 8th century BC. An Ingaevonian settlement at this location was known by the name "Treva" – a strategic trading node on amber routes during Iron Age and Late Antiquity.