2 Best Sights in Altstadt, Frankfurt

Grosse Bockenheimer Strasse is the proper name of this pedestrian street, nicknamed \"Pig-Out Alley\" because of its amazing choice of restaurants and cafés, wine merchants and late night music clubs, offering everything from crumbly cheeses and smoked fish to vintage wines and chocolate creams. Check the side streets for additional cafés and restaurants, between Börsenstraße and Opernplatz.

Three individual patrician buildings make up the Römer, Frankfurt's town hall. The mercantile-minded Frankfurt burghers used the complex for political and ceremonial purposes and for trade fairs and other commercial ventures. Its gabled facade with an ornate balcony is widely recognized as the city's official emblem. The most important events to take place here were the festivities celebrating the coronations of the Holy Roman emperors. The first was in 1562 in the glittering Kaisersaal (Imperial Hall), the last in 1792 to celebrate the election of the emperor Francis II, who would later be forced by Napoléon to abdicate. Unless official business is being conducted, you can see the impressive, full-length 19th-century portraits of the 52 emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, which line the walls of the reconstructed banquet hall, but you have to arrange a tour through a private local operator.