Title: Hamburg
Description: "It is a popular misconceptuion that Hamburg is a coastal city. Despite being Europe's second-biggest port, [the city] lies some 65 miles from the North Sea. Its lomgstanding iamge as a city wityhout cyulture is also something of a myth. When the poet [Heinrich] Heine remarked that in Hamburg "the customs are English", he was referring to its no-nonsense mercantile ethos, which dates back to the era odf the Hanseatic League. Yet even in Heine's day the celebrated philistinism of the city fathers was balanced by a tradition of private philanthropy: Hamburg has long been a city of culture as well as commerce. ..."--Back cover.
Subjects: Buildings, structures, Civilization, Historic sites, Historic buildings, Intellectual life, History, Historic buildings, europe, Hamburg (germany), description and travel, Germany, civilization, Germany, history
Places: Hamburg (Germany), Germany, Hamburg