welcome to Frankfurt! Willkommen!
welcome to Frankfurt this is a city of contrasts old and new situated on the
Main River it has a trading history dating back to the Middle Ages today
we're gonna explore the city during a 24-hour layover let's go check it out
we're in the Frankfurt terminal and we are looking to take the Frankfurt
train to downtown, five Euros. Ee pick up the train right at the airport and had
three stops away to the hauptbahnhof this right here is our hostel - Five
Elements right near the city and the Train the five elements hostel is
centrally located affordable stylish and cozy top floor of five elements hostel
right next door to the hauptbahnhof
there's even a desk in here Frankfurt city card one day pass 10.50 euro
everything in this video is walkable from her hostel including this
pedestrian bridge called holbeinsteg. It is about 47 degrees here and it's April.
So right here is the Städel Museum we're going in there they have Picasso's
and Renaissance paintings it's one of the best museums in town here we cross
the Main River which bisects the city into
there's so many pedestrians in the city it's so cool here's our Museum at the
Städel Museum we view the Picasso printmaking exhibit on display through
June of 2019. This is all museum row right here for a layover this right
here's the pedestrian bridge that connects to the altstadt and then on this
side is the newer part of town beautiful city you can see the old and new Germany
and you can hear the bells from the altstadt we cross the picturesque
eiserner steg footbridge that connects to the old city
there are so many locks here
we are in the main square
What do you have there? I have sour Apple wine, we're here in the main
square in the frame for Old Town I'm gonna take a drink how is it sour good
that's good cuz I got over potato soup with sausage a pretzel sauerkraut
potatoes frankfurter green sauce bring pretty green sauce this is something you
only get here
ç'est bon? tres bien?
right in the altstadt, we came across a brass ensemble playing the song
hallelujah now for a little history of Frankfurt historically Frankfurt was not
famous for its modern skyline, but for its historical city center it was one of
the largest and most beautiful medieval timber-framed old towns. During world war
ii the city was bombed in an air raid in 2000 of the medieval buildings were
destroyed much of what you see today in the city
center is new construction the dawn Romer project is an effort to remake
the old city center the altstadt of Frankfurt into its pre-war architecture
one of the buildings that survived World War two is the old st. Nicholas Church
or in German, "alte nikolaikirche" let's go inside
this is a medieval church dating back to the 13th century known for its harmonic
47 bells
you can see the old and the new buildings side-by-side stopping much of
the newly renovated old town was unveiled in 2018 let's go check it out
god this church is so beautiful church this is called kaiser falls archeology
museum when the bells are ringing
sorry it says here like many German cities
Frankfurt was the target of the ology teaser bombing in World War two on May
18th and 22nd the British Royal Air Force carried out two of the wars most
destructive air raids the cities more than 2,000 half-timbered buildings only
one remains intact one of the highlights of the historical restoration project is
the house of the seven skills or hospice or golden vaanga to recreate this ornate
medieval half-timbered house it took meticulous attention to detail the
details on this building on these half-timbered houses do this when i zoom
in look at all the gold statues bring a little piece of Frankfurt at home
puppet show all these old traditional beer halls here so what I love about
Frankfurt so far first of all it's very walkable the old town is extremely
picturesque the airport is really nice probably one of my favorites in the
world one of the most organized airports and everything here is just beautifully
recreated it's as if nothing happened but the history is extraordinary and
there's so many museums to learn about what happened really weird
the first German Parliament was here
so we've gone from the old town the new town Frankfurt
we found this beautiful peaceful park Frankfurt would be an awesome place to
work just say so our hostel is called five elements it's very close to the
train station everything we saw was walkable from the hostel and our hostel
starts at 45 euros per night it into an interesting section this is apparently
the Turkish section so they have a lot of doner kebab places a lot of curry
Wurst and a lot of Indian food
there are people from all over the world here at this to go anywhere in the world
where would you go and who would you go with oh my gosh so many places - Ethiopia. Tanner
are you listening? Patagonia, Bolivia, but who would you go with
well after going to Tunisia I think it's gonna help to be Arabic Star Wars or
Star Trek? Star Wars! If you could live in any country in the world,
where would it be? Spain
in the morning we grab breakfast at our hostel which came with a full spread of
meats cheeses breads and veggies
information about the five elements hostel is listed in the description
below now time to check out and go to the airport seeking the us9 dream to the
airport it's only about two stops away
and with that we say Peterson to Frankfurt we hope to be back for a more
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