International City of Frankfurt. The world is at home in Frankfurt: people from around 177 nations live in Germany's most international metropolis and have made it their home.

Frankfurt – the financial centre, the European city, the traffic hub, the smallest metropolis in the world. When you think of the city on the Main, you think of the Frankfurt Airport, the Paulskirche and Goethe, the Stock Exchange, the Book Fair and the skyline.

After the end of the Holy Roman Empire, Frankfurt joined the Confederation of the Rhine and under the First Prince Karl Theodor of Dalberg, became the capital of a short-lived (1810-1813) grand duchy of Frankfurt. In 1815, Frankfurt became …

The old town of Frankfurt am Main was destroyed in a bombing raid in March 1944. 75 years later the old town quarter has now been recreated: consisting of 35 buildings, it includes 15 faithful reconstructions of the original structures and 20 new buildings …

For more than 6 centuries, Frankfurt’s destiny has been directed from the patrician houses on the Römerberg. Like most of her predecessors, the municipal leader lives above the Schwanenhalle, with a view of St. Paul’s Church.

Since 1972, the Old Town of Frankfurt’s oldest district has been an officially preserved site of historic interest, and offers picturesque buildings such as the Bolongaro Palace (Bolongaro-Palast), the City Fortifications, the Main gate, the Customs Tower and the Old Town Hall.

Der Kaiserdom St. Bartholomäus © Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Photo: Stefan Maurer. Strictly speaking, it is not a cathedral at all, since it was never a bishop’s church. Nonetheless, the Gothic St. Bartholomew’s Cathedral is one of the few to receive the …

Frankfurt central station is the most important rail transport hub in Germany. Every day, more than 1,100 trains connect the city with many national and international destinations and around 700 suburban railway trains take passengers to stations within Frankfurt and the surrounding area.

Those who set out on a discovery tour of Frankfurt can easily reach many of the sites on foot or by bus and train. Many attractions are not very far from one another in the city centre, as our virtual city tour shows.

Not even tourists and those new to Frankfurt can fail to miss the starting point of our historic stroll through the city: With its 95 m high tower rising over Frankfurt city centre, the Cathedral (Dom) can be seen from afar.