The origins of Hamburg date back to 808 AD. C., time in which Charlemagne had the Hammaburg castle built to defend himself against the Slavic peoples, from which the area north of the Elbe river was monitored.
On April 10, 2021, from Bogotá, and after being mounted on an Iberia Airbus 320 plane with capacity for 195 passengers, for nine hours of navigation, we crossed eastern Colombia through the Santanderes, part of Venezuela by the lake from Maracaibo, the turbulent space of the Atlantic Ocean, Portugal, and western Spain, to finally reach the Barajas airport in Madrid.
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Thanks to the free Reduced Mobility Assistance service, we were picked up directly from the plane and transferred to the immigration area, where we had no problem entering the air terminal in the Iberian country, three hours later arriving on another plane, a slightly smaller, to our destination: the Helmut Schmidt airport in the port of Hamburg.
Hamburg is a German city-state, located in the north of the country. It has an area of 755 km² and 1,857,727 inhabitants; it is the second most populous city in Germany, after Berlin; the third from Central Europe and the seventh from the European Union. The port is the second largest in Europe, only after the port of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, and one of the twenty largest in the world. Hamburg is 290 kilometers northwest of Berlin.
The port is located on the banks of the Elbe River, which empties into the North Sea, some 100 km away. From its mouth to Hamburg, the river is navigable, even by large ships, which made the city, centuries ago, an important port. It is communicated by different navigable channels for small boats.
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The origins of Hamburg date back to 808 AD. C., time in which Charlemagne had the Hammaburg castle built to defend himself against the Slavic peoples, from which the area north of the Elbe river was guarded, where borough means castle. The term Hamma remains uncertain, although it can mean “forest”, as well as the location of this castle.
During World War II the city was devastated by bombing. The code name for the main Allied attack was Operation Gomorrah (1943-1945), which killed around 40,000 people. This action was carried out from the end of July 1943 by the Royal British Air Force (RAF) and the American Air Forces (USAAF), and at the time it was the largest bombing campaign in the history of air warfare.
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