The town, which has just under 60,000 inhabitants, is considered the center of the so-called "Renaissance of the Weser", an artistic movement of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that welcomed Italian ways and developed above all in public buildings and in the residences of the princes.
Hameln also owes its notoriety to the story of the mouse hunter that would take place in this city, told in the tale of The Pied Piper of Hamelin
