Things to Do and See in Hamburg, Germany

With a 2007 population of 1,769,000, Hamburg is Germany’s second-largest city and Europe’s second-largest port. Hamburg is a lively city that has worked hard in recent years to bolster its tourist activity and has been quite successful in doing so. Hamburg is the cultural and commercial capital of northern Germany. The city features no less [...]

Berlin attractions: Checkpoint Charlie

One of Berlin’s primary tourist attractions, Checkpoint Charlie represents one of the lat symbols of the Cold War that opposed USA and URSS during the second half of the XX century. It has to be seen as the strongest symbol of the division of Germany and of the political world situation of those years. The [...]