Held every year, the Museum Embankment Festival is one of the top events in Frankfurt's festival calendar. Concentrated around the Eiserner Steg footbridge, the festivities stretch for eight kilometres on both side of the River Main, and if you think it's just about museums, get ready for a big surprise ...

Frankfurt's biggest festival
10 museums on the "Schaumainkai" museum embankment hold special events and one-off exhibitions, while visitors are also treated to a packed programme of cultural events, with everything from stage productions and performances to cabaret and live music. It's also well worth catching the spectacular dragon boat race.

Goethe House, birthplace of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, provides a fascinating insight into upper-middle class life in the mid-18th century. Of all Frankfurt's buildings, St. Paul's Church has perhaps played the greatest historical role: this is where Germany's first freely elected parliament met in 1848. Römerberg square and the old town hall, known as the "Römer", are the very heart of the old quarter.

Frankfurt's museums along "museum embankment" have a variety of exhibitions. There is culture for every age, from pop music events to classical opera to modern theatre performances.