
City of Destination
Hamburg, the most populated (Berlin) and today’s greenest city of Europe, lies at the Elbe River, 109 km from the North Sea and 285 km to the northwest of Berlin. It has the almost its 50% area marked with water, woodlands, farmland, and some 1,400 parks and gardens. The color green now becomes the official color. Hamburg has many faces. A walk down the neon-lit Reeperbahn at night will revive old memories of "Sin-City Europe." A ride around Alster Lake in the city center will reveal the elegance of its finest parks and buildings. And a stroll along one of Hamburg's many canals explains why this city has been called the "Venice of the North." It's easy to see why the youthful Beatles fell in love with Hamburg. Germany's second largest city has a magnificent harbors right in its centre and, so the locals like to say, has more in common with canal cities like Amsterdam or Venice. Indeed, Hamburgers will proudly point out that their city has even more bridges than Venice.