🇩🇪 3-Day Hamburg Itinerary

Hamburg, officially the "Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg", boasts 1,200+ years of resilience – surviving WWII bombs and the 1962 flood to become Germany’s second-largest city and "Gateway to the World". 🌊 Day 1: Harbor Magic 🏭 Speicherstadt + Miniatur Wunderland UNESCO-listed red-brick warehouses (once stored coffee/spices) World’s largest model railway with working mini-airport ✈️ 🏢 Kontorhausviertel & Chilehaus Expressionist architecture shaped like a ship’s bow 🚢 🎨 Gängeviertel Artsy alleyways saved by squatters in 2009 🎭 🎵 Elbphilharmonie + HafenCity Glass concert hall (cost €860M vs. €77M budget!) 🌅 Dockland Sunset + Harbor Cruise 🏛️ Day 2: History & Green Oases ⛪ St. Michael’s Church + Rathaus Climb the 132m tower for views City Hall’s 647 rooms outshine Buckingham Palace! 🖼️ Kunsthalle Caspar David Friedrich masterpieces (survived WWII) 🌿 Planten un Blomen Japanese garden + summer light shows 💦🎶 🛍️ Day 3: Local Flavors (Depart by 14:00) 🐟 Fischmarkt (Sundays only!) Since 1703 – fish auctions + dad jokes at dawn 🎤 🚇 Alter Elbtunnel 1911 sub-river tunnel with vintage elevators ✈️ 13:00 Head to airport/station #Hamburg #GermanyTravel #PortCity 🇩🇪⚓