Once arrived in Frankfurt, a good way to start our tour of the city is with a visit to the "Old City", surrounded by a wall centred in the Römerberg Square, where Charlemagne built the fort which was to give its name to the city.
Around this square are typical German houses built in the 15th century. Near here we can find St Bartholomew's Cathedral, erected between the 13th and 14th centuries and with a tower 95 metres high, which visitors can climb in order to view the whole city from its peak.
The Goethe House-Museum is a must for our tour, with various items from the life and times of the famous German author of legendary works such as "Faust" or "The Sorrows of Young Werther".
The suburb of Sachsenhausen, providing a great opportunity to try cider, is also a place to visit museums such as the Städel, owner of a collection of paintings by artists such as Durero, Van Eyck, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Monet, Van Gogh, Cézanne or Picasso.
And lastly, for a drink in the evening, there is the so-called "Jazz street", which at night has a wide variety of clubs. Another recommended place is the Brotfabrik, holding concerts by ethnic music groups from all around the world.
The Museum of Modern Art is shaped like a piece of cake. Paintings by Lichtenstein, Warhol, Stella or Beuys can be found here in some 5000 square metres of galleries.
The German Architecture Museum is a very well-known museum containing an extensive collection of maps, plans, drawings, sketches and models.
The Communications Museum has a permanent display of a large number of items showing the history of communications.
The Goethe Museum is considered one of the most important tourist attractions in Frankfurt.
Giersch House-Museum of Regional Art is a museum devoted entirely to the history of art in the region of Frankfurt Rin-Maine.
Liebighaus, the sculpture museum, located in an old mansion dating from 1896.
The Stadel Art Institute and Municipal Museum, opened in 1878, was a gift to the city from Johan Friedrich Stadel.
The German Film Museum is an entertaining museum including interactive displays for visitors, aimed at enhancing understanding of certain techniques in the production of the seventh art.
The Museum of World Culture/Gallery 37 also attracts a large number of visitors, and hosts the largest collection of contemporary art from the Third World in its Gallery 37.
The Museum of Applied Arts, known as "The White House of the Main", displays 30,000 items in various departments classified by themes (Europe, Islam, Far East and Book Design).
The Icon Museum, home to around a thousand objects from orthodox culture, taken from countries in the East and the Balkans.
The History Museum has five buildings arranged around a central patio. It was founded in 1878, although the oldest items of furniture date from the 12th century.
The Museum of Pre-history and Early History / Institute for City History host archaeological treasures from the ancient Roman city of Nida.
The Senckenberg Museum of Natural History is the largest science museum in Germany.
The Chaplin Archive is a museum devoted to the legendary film star, where guests can find out all about his life and his films.
The Commerzbank skyscraper is the highest office block in Europe, 259 metres high.
The Romer, formed by three merchant buildings originally intended to host parties for nobility. Later became the site for the City Hall, which is still located here to this day.
The Alte Oper Frankfurt Centre, reconstructed after the 2nd World War, with a renaissance Italian style. The building has the most attractive offers for opera and classical music of the whole city.
The name Frankfurt means "ford of the Franks", a name which comes from the first Germanic tribes to inhabit the country.
For a short time, the city formed part of the Roman Empire, which choose the city as the site for the numerous elections it held. Between the years 1562 and 1792, Frankfurt saw Charlemagne crowned Emperor, and later became the capital of the Germanic Confederation.
On the 10th May 1871 a historical event took place which determined the future of the country, with the signing of the peace treaty for the Franco-Prussian war in Frankfurt, just five years after Prussia had annexed the city. This peace treaty lead to the creation of Germany as a united country.
Frankfurt could not however avoid the Allied bombs which destroyed many German cities during the Second World War, and by the end of the war it was left practically destroyed. It took an impeccable reconstruction work carried out during the post-war years to make Frankfurt the city it is today.