Frankfurt travel guides & articles
All 20 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Frankfurt — newest first.
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The Multi-Day Car Factory Route from Munich to Frankfurt
What you see inside Germany's working car plants on a private multi-day run from Munich to Frankfurt: door prices, age limits, closed days and whether the packaged version earns its money.
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Standing 200 Metres Above Frankfurt on the Main Tower Deck
What you can see from the open 56th-floor platform, what a ticket costs, when to go, and the walking loop that turns a lift ride into a half day.
Frankfurt's Spring Fair Is Centuries Older Than Oktoberfest
The Dippemess has been trading on Frankfurt ground since the 1300s, which makes the city's beer tents the late arrival. This guide covers both, plus the cider houses that outlived them all.
Chasing a PB on Frankfurt's Flat October Marathon Course
Frankfurt's marathon climbs less than 28 metres in 42 kilometres and finishes on a red carpet indoors. Here is how to run the city in the week around it.
Frankfurt on an Eintracht Matchday
Tickets three weeks out, cider in Sachsenhausen, an eagle over the pitch and the cheaper football most visitors never find. This is how to follow Eintracht through Frankfurt properly.
Advent on the Römerberg and Frankfurt's Apple Wine Trail
How to fit Frankfurt's Christmas markets and the Sachsenhausen cider houses into one evening, with the prices, the opening dates and which rooms will actually seat a group.
Walking Frankfurt for the First Time in Early Autumn
A first trip built around the river, the wine market and the taverns, plus the closures, cash-only counters and opening days that catch people out.
Fifteen Asian Kitchens Worth a Tram Ride in Frankfurt
Vietnamese, Korean barbecue, kushiyaki, Sichuan hotpot and one all-day vegetarian room, with what each charges, when it shuts and which ones can seat a group.
Two Days in Frankfurt Without Missing the City
A walkable two-day route through the old town, the museum bank, the market hall and the apple wine taverns, with the opening hours and door realities that decide whether it works.
Three day trips from Frankfurt that only need a train ticket
Mainz, Heidelberg and the Rhine gorge are all close enough to walk out of the station and start the day. What each one costs, what is shut in 2026, and how the walking works.
How Frankfurt Invented the Fitted Kitchen
The kitchen in your flat was designed here in 1926 for workers' housing. Where to find the original, the estates it was built for, and the modernism that came with it.
Walking Frankfurt's Skyline From MainTor to the Kaiserdom
A stop-by-stop walking route through Frankfurt's real skyscraper cluster, from a reopened bank compound to the deck that finally looks down instead of up.
Walking the Frankfurt School, From Bockenheim to Westend
A walk through Frankfurt's Bockenheim and Westend districts, tracing where the Frankfurt School's theory was written, exiled, and rebuilt — from the Institute's current offices to the ground beneath the IG Farben Building.
In Adorno's Footsteps Through Frankfurt
A walkable route through the Institute, the monument, the old university and the café where the Frankfurt School actually did its thinking.
The Main's Changing Face: From Industrial Waterway to Leisure Spine
A walk along Frankfurt's Main embankment, from the Eiserner Steg to a Höchst beach garden built inside a former river-traffic control post, tracing exactly how a working cargo river became the city's leisure spine.
Seven Herbs and a Hard-Boiled Egg: Frankfurt's Grüne Soße Season
A season-by-season guide to Frankfurt's cold green herb sauce, from the Sachsenhausen taverns that defend their own version to the Oberrad market stalls the seven herbs actually come from.
Apfelwein and the Bembel: Frankfurt's Other Exchange Rate
Skip the towers by the river for an evening and learn the cloudy, sharp cider that Frankfurt reckons by the jug — with the taverns worth walking to and how to get a table for six.
The Museum Riverbank: Frankfurt's Städel and the Galleries Along the Main
A calm, walkable guide to Frankfurt's Museumsufer — from the Städel's 700 years of painting to the old-town kunsthalles across the water, with the honest door and group notes.
Frankfurt's Green Escape: The Parks, Forests and River Meadows Inside the City
Frankfurt hides more lawns, forest trails and river meadows behind its glass towers than any banking skyline should — here's how to walk them, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
The Bembel and the Boardroom: Frankfurt's Cider Houses Where the City Really Drinks
A calm, street-level walk through Frankfurt's Apfelwein taverns — where bankers, students and grandmothers share the same cloudy glass and the same long bench.