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Romerberg
The district of Romerberg is the Frankfurt's historic centre - as said before, it was rebuilt after the war without paying too much attention to details. Except for a few important buildings. One is the Town Hall and the other is the Gothic church of St. Nicholas. Romerberg has its place in the German history as it was where the National Assembly met in 1848, the year people's revolutions swept across Europe.

Goethe's House
Though Germany's national poet, Goethe, only spent in Frankfurt the first 26 years of his life, his home is open to visitors. Even if it does not have the exquisite collection like the museum in Weimar, it is still interesting to see the very rooms where the young artist lived. By the way, one of Goethe's best poetic feats, "The Sorrows of Young Werther", was written there.

Stadel Gallery
Frankfurt has got a well-deserved reputation of a city where art and artists find a safe haven and welcoming audiences. The Stadel Gallery, apart from displaying the works of renown artists from the past, has also room for some of the creators or the modernity. From Memling and Bosch to Picasso and Kiefer, it's all there. If the talk is about an exhibition of note, then chances are considerable it is being displayed in Frankfurt.

Business District
But the hustle and bustle can be interesting, given that Frankfurt is, after all, the city of finance and business. The city centre boasts some exquisite examples of modern-age glass-and-steel constructions. The most interesting is perhaps the 259-meter high high-rise of the Commerzbank. Equally impressive is the aptly named Main Tower, hosting a rooftop observation platform some 200 meters above the city level. The platform gives a truly spectacular panorama of Frankfurt's skyline.

River Main
Finally, the River Main. It is an attraction in itself, all the more so since the city planners began the implementation of their "back to the river" idea. The utterly interesting Museumsufer, or the museum embankment, offering the city's finest museums is just one example of integrating the river into the city landscape in a way that is more than just bridges and boulevards along the river banks.