Travel guide – Hamburg + Plan | Petit Futé (French)
More vast metropolis of Germany after Berlin, more powerful economically than the capital, the city – state of Hamburg produces a very singular face for a German city. More Nordic than Germanic, Hanseatic and Continental, the “Gold on the World” distills the improbable species of its neighbors: an air of London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam flears at the four corners of its alleys. It is not in an anchored museum decor that we navigate, but according to a moving, sulphurous and busy agglomeration. This modern city lives more than it is seen, it storms, is falling, agitates, hummed through its red neighborhood or port. Bourgeois and lascivious, hospitable and recluse at the same time, Hamburg maintains a mutine multiplicity around a truculent identity to discover without delay … 
