TEN MIND-BLOWING FACTS

ABOUT HAMBURG

1. Hamburg has more bridges than Venice and Amsterdam combined!

3. The Beatles began their career in Hamburg.

4. This city has more than 40 theatres, 60 museums and 100 music venues.

5. Hamburg’s Miniatur Wunderland is the world’s largest model railway exhibition.

6. In 2011, Hamburg was voted the greenest city of Europe. It has 29 nature reserves!

7. Inaugurated in 1897, the city’s town hall or Rathaus has 647 rooms!

8. Tierpark Hagenbeck was the first zoo in the world that had no barred cages.

9. Hamburg is home to more millionaires and billionaires than any other city in Germany!

10. Nearly 25,000 people work in the renewable energy sector in Hamburg.