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While Venice and Amsterdam may be the most famous cities for their huge amount of bridges, a lesser-known European city has ...

Hamburg is one of the great “undiscovered” cities in Europe. With its trading heritage and a strong economy, a visit here ...

It’s even believed to have more bridges than those three combined. According to travel experts at Barcelo , the city has more than 2,500 bridges, giving it the nickname “Venice of the North”.

It is estimated that Hamburg has between 2,300 and 2,500 bridges inside its city limits - more than Amsterdam, London and Venice put together, according to the Guinness World Records.

The concrete arch State Street Bridge, over a tributary to the Schuylkill River in Hamburg, was constructed in 1901 and reconstructed in 1923. A $2.3 million PennDOT project replaced the bridge in ...