Frankfurt is a business center of Europe. I think there's no other place in Europe where are so many business tourists per one local. Even many of locals are just working in Frankfurt, while their families live in other cities!
<p>Frankfurt's downtown can remind an American city with all its skyscrapers, but the historical center undoubtedly points out city's European nature. After the World War II Frankfurt was 90+ % destroyed, but Germans did a great work, rebuilding houses in historical center exactly as they looked like before the war. It is a strange feeling when you go inside a church that looks like XV century, but you see how young its walls are.
<p>Downtown and RÖMER (it is the name for historical center) are so close to each other, that everyone who likes contrasts will love this place! Almost every picture made in the city center provides space for "old" houses and skyscrapers in the background. Banks of the river Main are also very picturesque. But the contrasts between old and new is maybe a biggest impression of the city; almost every photo taken in Frankfurt center is a vivid illustration of this.
<p>On the photo: downtown and bridge named Eiserner Steg, shoot from the left bank of Main near the Dreikönigskirche.
<font color="red">Remark about photos</font>: I finally realized that people have different speed of Internet connections. So I decided to retouch my site, optimizing my pages for better performance on slowest connections. All images on this page, except this postcard at the top, have largest size of 400 pixels, and vary from 25 to 35 kB.
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