This splendid lake is excellent for sailing. A boat tour lets you see the five towers of the main churches of the city in one go and the campanile of the Town Hall. The lovely viewpoints justify the names of the banks, Fernsicht and Schöne Aussi..

The Stintfang offers a good view over the port with its 60 basins and 68 km of quays. The port's reputation is founded on its efficiency, wide range of machines, warehouses and transportation adapted for unloading and storing all sorts of merchandise..

After the Habsburgs joined the German Customs Union, the construction of a free trade zone became necessary. From 1885 an entire district around the Zollkanal was torn down to make way for the Speicherstadt warehouses. Today, the 373 000m2 complex st..

As well as sections on the Middle Ages (see the retable by Maître Bertram ) and the 17C Dutch collection (Rembrandt, Jan Steel), the museum's main attraction is German painting from the 19C. Caspar David Friedrich, Feuerbach, Böcklin and Menzel domi..

This museum (Altonaer Museum in Hamburg - Norddeutsches Landesm) depicts daily life and traditional activities in the lower valley of the Elba and Schleswig-Holstein. Aside from its craft department and art gallery, there is an admirable collection o..

This exceptional zoo has existed since 1907; its old trees, lakes and man-made rocks are a lovely setting for a peaceful stroll. Thousands of animals originally from five continents live here, out in the open, and the population includes many rare sp..

Aside from the models of old Hamburg, the museum also houses a vast department devoted to the port and sailing (more than 100 boat models). It also includes the scale model of the town's rail network and historical fashion accessories, clothes and fu..

This Baroque church dates back to 1762 and is surprising for its size and the amount of light in it. It was built by the architect Sonnin, one of the best representatives of the Baroque tradition in Northern Germany. Its famous tower (Turm der Mich..

This is the world's largest model railway exhibition, spanning over 4 000m 2 . Seven hundred trains run in sets inspired by Scandinavia, the US and the North Sea etc. It is constantly being extended with new sets.

In the middle of the Binnenalster basin, this famous street is the cosmopolitan heart of the city, with its lively terraces on the Alsterpavillon and the boat traffice along the Alster.

Nothing to see in this museum, but plenty to explore: blind guides lead small groups around an ordinary environment, plunged into complete darkness. Smells, sounds, draughts and textures become the only means of getting your bearings! You can also di..

Housed in a 19C neo-Renaissance style palace, the large Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe is home to a superb collection of sculptures, earthenware, furniture, jewellery and musical instruments dating from Antiquity to the present day. Of particular inter..

On the chevet of St Michael's Church, if you enter n°10 on Kayenkamp, you will find some surprising wood and brick maisonnettes built in 1670 as social housing. Now, they are a series of art galleries.

Sankt-Pauli is laid out around Reeperbahn, the main thoroughfare, and is home to the Davidwache , the city's main police station. It had its golden age in the 1960s, when The Beatles played at the Star Club on Große Freiheit . At that time its imag..

The odyssey of The Beatles, from their early days on Hamburg's rock scene to world fame, is retraced in this lively museum. You can record a song in the Abbey Road studios and visit the famous yellow submarine.

The old town stretches from the Nikolaifleet, the basin for river sailing and tugboats (Binnenhafen) and the Zollkanal. Despite the air raids of the Second World War, old Hamburg has not entirely disappeared. Take a stroll through the old town, even ..

This museum housed in a converted red-brick warehouse retraces a century of history in this dockland neighbourhood. Measuring instruments and storage tools, sacks of coffee and other merchandise, photos and layouts illustrating the phases of its deve..

This is where the fire of 1842 started. It is lined with merchants' houses from the 17 and 18C that now house taverns. The warehouses with their restored façades face the Nikolaifleet canal, a picture-postcard view of old Hamburg. The Hohe Brücke b..

The square was redesigned after the fire of 1842. It is dominated by the campanile of the Renaissance Town Hall (1897). The bridge crosses the Alsterfleet, the remains of the canal system in old Hamburg. It is close to the lock that maintains the l..

The church was built (and rebuilt) in the 14 and 15C in the Gothic style. Its bulbous Baroque tower is ornamented with openwork and dominates the old port.