On the way back from Danemark we stopped one night in Bremen, Germany. A beautiful city of half a million people, with a rich history as a bustling centre of trade during the time of the Hanseatic League.
We took a hotel in the city centre and delayed our departure home by a few hours, so we can visit a few historical landmarks of "Hansestadt Bremen". You can see how proud the locals are of the Hanseatic legacy by the fact that even today, car plates are not marked "BR" but rather "HB" (similarly, cars from Hamburg, another big "Hansestadt" or "City of the Hanseatic league", are not "H" nor "HA" but "HH")
The Townhall, one of the oldest surviving town halls of Europe, standing since 1405
Me with the statue of Roland the hero, daring from around the same epoch, so more than 600 years old
The statue of the "Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten", a several-centuries old fairy tale, very well known in all the German-speaking space.
Böttcherstrasse, a beautiful street from the Middle Ages, restored about one century ago by a rich local merchant, linking the marketplace (where the Townhall sits) with the river, the trade on which was the city's source of prosperity.
And the Weser river itself, which became too silted up to allow heavy ships to reach the city of Bremen and led to the establishment in the modern era of a new harbor-town, Bremerhaven, about 70 km down the river at its estuary.
I hope you enjoyed the story of the 5500 steps I walked today in Bremen.
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