Gängeviertel and Kontor houses, canals, warehouses as well as the cholera and the great fire of 1842 mark Hamburg's path to becoming a metropolis. We tell about life in the former old town, about canal gapers, beer brewers, and pepper sacks, and show the town hall courtyard, the historic port, the church ruin St. Nikolai, Deichstraße with the traditional merchant houses, the magnificent Speicherstadt, and the Hafencity with the Elbphilharmonie.You will also learn about the civic virtues depicted at the town hall, where great monasteries stood in the heart of the city of Hamburg, the significance of the fountain figures in the Börseninnenhof, and how lively it once was around the Old Harbor.Experience the many facets of Hamburg on the city tour from the Town Hall to the Elbphilharmonie: the Binnenalster and Jungfernstieg, the shopping street Neuer Wall, the Mellin Passage, the town hall with the Börseninnenhof and the cholera fountain, typical Kontor houses, Nikolaifleet with the Old Harbor, the historic Deichstraße, the warehouses as well as old and new architectural highlights at harbor basins and canals.