"Schanze" might not be as iconic as the neighborhooding Sankt Pauli but it boasts the true essence of Hamburg. Portuguese pastalarias share their walls with alternative music records shops, in front of a boho-chic cafe filled with hipsters next to a squatters graffiti and dirt covered old building. This is a relatively small grid of a couple of crowded streets, and if you venture past them you'll find yourself surrounded by industrial warehouses on one side, and by architecturally beautiful residential areas on the other side. Gentrification here is in every corner, yet although the area's popularity is not new, the atmosphere still holds to its past and in general hamburgers of all kind seem to fight back any renovative intrusion.
One can tell Hamburg is no Berlin.
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