Hamburg hotels collection

Tapered to a prow where two streets meet, the Chilehaus pushes its dark brick into the Kontorhaus quarter; the merchant who had it built owed his fortune to Chilean saltpetre. Next to it, the Speicherstadt lines up brick warehouses under green copper roofs, above canals the Elbe tide fills and empties. Beneath the river, the old tunnel still lowers pedestrians and cyclists in lift cages built for cars. In autumn, the man the city calls the swan father gathers the Alster's swans by boat and takes them to winter on a pond in Eppendorf.