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Hamburg

Hamburg Metropolitan Region

Harbour, brick and late nights

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About Hamburg

Hamburg is Germany's great port, a rich Hanseatic city built around the river Elbe and the Alster lakes, with more bridges than Venice and Amsterdam combined.

Its red-brick Speicherstadt warehouses and Kontorhaus offices are a UNESCO site, the glass wave of the Elbphilharmonie rises from an old wharf above the harbour, and the Kunsthalle is one of the country's great art museums. At night, St. Pauli and the Reeperbahn take over.

It's grey and windy more often than not and lively all year, with Lübeck and the Baltic within an hour.

Eat a Fischbrötchen at the Landungsbrücken, Labskaus with a fried egg, and a cinnamon Franzbrötchen for breakfast.

Get to Hamburg

Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.

Buses from Hamburg

Day trips from Hamburg

  • Half day

    Lüneburg

    ~30 min train

    A medieval town grown rich on salt, with stepped brick gables, an old harbour crane on the river and streets where houses lean over the ground the salt mines left hollow.

  • Half day

    Lübeck

    ~45 min train

    The 'Queen of the Hanseatic League' on an island ringed by water, a UNESCO site: the twin towers of the Holstentor gate, brick Gothic churches, almshouse courtyards and the marzipan of Niederegger. Its Baltic beach at Travemünde is twenty minutes further.

  • Day trip

    Lüneburger Heide

    ~1 h car

    Rolling heathland that turns purple when the heather flowers in August and September, grazed by horned Heidschnucke sheep, with the car-free village of Wilsede at its heart.

  • Day trip

    Altes Land

    ~1 h ferrybus

    One of Europe's largest orchard regions, along the Elbe just downstream: half-timbered farmhouses with carved gates, dykes to cycle along, and a sea of apple and cherry blossom in late April and May.

  • Day trip

    Schwerin

    ~1 h train

    A fairy-tale palace of towers and golden domes on its own island in a lake, the seat of the state parliament, with a small old town and palace gardens along the water.

About Germany

Alpine ridges to Baltic wind

Reinvented cities in the middle, ski country in the south, an industrial west and a cold, flat north. The trains connect it all and the regional differences run deep.

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