Frankfurt Am Main - brief description and tourist attractions

Frankfurt Am Main - tourist attractions

	Messeturm	The Messeturm (English: Trade Fair Tower) is a skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is the second tallest building in Frankfurt and also the second tallest building in Germany. The Messeturm's ground floor area is just 1,681 m (18,090 sq ft). The Messeturm is directly located near the Fran...
	Mainhattan	Mainhattan is a business and financial district in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Its name comes from the city river which crosses the district, the river Main and is a clear allusion to Manhattan, a business center full of skyscrapers in New York. Nowadays Mainhattan is one of the most important fin...
	Opernturm	The Opernturm (English: Opera Tower) is a skyscraper in the Westend of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. he property is situated opposite Alte Oper on the corner of Bockenheimer Landstraße and Bockenheimer Anlage. The building was designed by Christoph Mäckler. The project developer was Tishman Speyer, a...
	Palmengarten	The Palmengarten is one of two botanical gardens in Frankfurt am Main and the largest garden of its kind in Germany. It is located in the Westend-Süd district. Like many public sites in Frankfurt, it was privately financed and implemented by the architect Heinrich Siesmayer. Work was completed in 1...
	Europaturm	The Europaturm (Tower of Europe) is a 337.5 metre (1,107.3 ft) high telecommunications tower in Frankfurt, Germany. Designed by architect Erwin Heinle, the tower's construction began in 1974. At its completion five years later, it became the tallest free-standing structure in the Federal Republic o...
	Grüneburgpark	The Grüneburgpark is a park in the Westend district of Frankfurt, whose name derives from the "Green castle", which used to stand on the site from the 14 century. In 1789 the banker Peter Heinrich von Bethmann Metzler acquired the property and designed the park. In the following years the great thin...
	Städel	The Städel, officially the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, is an art museum in Frankfurt am Main, with one of the most important collections in Germany. The Städel owns 2,700 paintings (of which 600 are displayed) and a collection of 100,000 drawings and prints as well as 600 scul...
	Eschenheimer Turm	Eschenheimer Turm (Eschenheim Tower) was a city gate part of the late-medieval fortifications of Frankfurt am Main and is a landmark of the city. The tower, which was erected at the beginning of the fifteenth century, is at once the oldest and most unaltered building in the largely reconstructed Fra...
	Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt	The Schirn Kunsthalle is an art gallery in Frankfurt, Germany, located in the old city between the Römer and the Frankfurt Cathedral. The Schirn exhibits both modern and contemporary art. It is the main venue for temporary art exhibitions in Frankfurt. Exhibitions in recent years included retrospect...
	Naturmuseum Senckenberg	The Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt am Main is the second largest museum of natural history in Germany. It is particularly popular with children, who enjoy the extensive collection of dinosaur skeletons: Senckenberg boasts the largest exhibition of large dinosaurs in Europe. One particular trea...