Frankfurt - THE COMPLETE TRAVELLER'S GUIDE

Frankfurt

THE COMPLETE TRAVELLER'S GUIDE

Frankfurt am Main — Frankfurt-on-the-Main — is one of Europe's most paradoxical and fascinating cities. On the surface it presents itself as Germany's financial powerhouse: the cluster of gleaming skyscrapers that defines the 'Mainhattan' skyline houses the European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, making this mid-sized city of 760,000 one of the world's most important financial centres. Yet step ten minutes from the banking towers and you find yourself in the meticulously reconstructed medieval Römerberg, drinking apple wine (Äppelwoi) from a traditional Bembel jug in a half-timbered tavern that feels entirely unchanged from the 17th century.