Frankfurt is a modern city thanks to it’s sky scrapers. It’s skyline is definatley what impresses the eye at first sight, however it’s charm is deeper then that. If offers headquarter basis to many European companies and it also considered one of the largest financial centers in Europe. This dynamic modern metropolis imposes a definite contrast to the city’s older and more historical buildings, such as: The Old Opera House, the Hauptwache which is a former prison and Baroque guardhouse, the Kaiserdom (Imperial Cathedral) and the Goethe House which is the birthplace of Germany’s greatest poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.