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Half The City In Ruins:
It owes its regularity to the Marquis of Pombal, who drastically remade its design after the ghastly earthquake of 1755 that killed 40,000 citizens, left half the city in ruins and cost, in money, about $100,000,000. Continuing north, still in the Lower City, the stroller veers slightly west to enter the Praga dos Restauradores (a sort of Place de la Concorde) and then the broad Avenida da Liberdade. The Palacio Foz, home of the National Secretariat of Information (SNI), of which the Tourist Department is a part, is situated here and is a sight in itself, a pink palace of wonderfully gracious design.Corinth. The acropolis (Acrocorinth) of the city is 1,857 feet (566 meters) high. Ruins near the Acrocorinth include a temple of Apollo, a theater, stoas, an odeum hewn out of rock, the spring of Pirene, and part of the road to Lechaeum. Delphi. Impressive ruins include the Temple of Apollo, the theater and stadium, a tholos or round building, the reconstructed treasury of Athens, and treasuries of several other city-states. Mt. Parnassus looms 8,062 feet (2,457 meters) over Delphi; it and neighboring Mt. Helicon were the home of the Muses.
The present urban area was created in 1937, when the former Prussian towns of Harburg, Wandsbek, and Altona were incorporated into the city, thus bringing the whole harbor area under a single administration. In 1943-1944 during World War II, relentless air raids laid half the city in ruins, destroyed three quarters of the port installations, and cost the lives of 55,000 people. However, the city government triumphantly overcame the enormous problems of economic and physical reconstruction after the war. The lost dwellings were more than replaced, a vigorous attack was made on the remaining slums, and new urban highways and subway extensions were built to combat congestion. Hamburg's present provisions for social welfare and education are models of their kind. Population: (1968 est.) 1,826,400.
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