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If you look at a map of Karlsruhe you will see that there are streets radiating out from the Palace in all directions. Actually the back ones radiate out through the woods and the front ones through the city.
It was all planned this way by the Margrave Karl Wilhelm of Baden-Durlach (1679 - 1738), who claimed to have had a vision in a dream that showed him how his new palace and city should be laid out. Originally his palace was smaller and was mainly intended as a weekend and holiday retreat for the Margrave (to get away from his virtuous wife), hence the name Karlsruhe, which means roughly Charlie's rest and relaxation place.
The big European VirtualTourist meeting EuroMeet 2008 was held in Karlsruhe from May 30th to June 1st, 2008. I have posted a General Tip and a Travelogue about this event, and if you click here you can find a list of links leading to hundreds of photos by other VT members who attended the meeting.
While I was at EuroMeet 2008 I traveled around Karlsruhe on the new CallBikes provided for spontaneous short-term rentals by the German Railways (DB). These bikes are a great addition to the Karlsruhe transit system, even though you have to have a cell phone to use them. See my new transportation tip for details of how it works and how the Karlsruhe "flex" system of bike rentals differs from the "fix" system found in Stuttgart, Paris and a number of other European cities.
Updates: Following the 6th Annual International VT Glühwein Meeting in December 2009 I have added four new tips to this page, at the beginning of the categories General Tips, Restaurants and Transportation.
The most recent opera performance I've seen here at the State Theater in Karlsruhe was their new production of Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito (1842-1918).
Mefistofele is an opera that is rarely performed in Germany, but it happens that both Frankfurt and Karlsruhe mounted new productions of it in the same season, and it was really interesting to see them both within a few days of each other.
Boito is best known as the librettist (text writer) of Giuseppe Verdi's last two operas, Otello and Falstaff. These are widely regarded as the greatest opera libretti ever written.
During this period of the 1880s and early 90s, Boito deliberately put his own career as a composer on hold to write these texts and persuade the over-seventy-year-old Verdi to come out of retirement just two more times to compose these two magnificent operas.
Boito wrote both the words and the music to Mefistofele, which is based on parts of Goethe's Faust. It's a huge opera, and it's the only one he ever really finished as a composer. Many musicians have their reservations about it, but as a naive audience member I consider it Grand Opera and well worth a trip to Karlsruhe or Frankfurt or wherever.
(The Amsterdam Opera did a production of Mefistofele in October 2004, and it has also been performed in Chicago and San Francisco in recent years. Two new productions took place in Kaiserslautern and Liège in June 2007. I have found a really good recording of it, by the way.)
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Fascinating travel pages of the city. CallBikes rental system certainly sounds interesting. Impressive cycling infrastructure with red cycling lanes at intersections certainly looks great to us. Also great photos from VT meetings. ~ho & pang
Great & detailed transportation tips to get/around Karlsruhe! Thanks for visiting my Angermuende page.
nice, the bstate art gallery seems to have some interetsing paintings.
fabulous page!!
2-Thumbsup 4 ur Karlsruhe page, and thx 4 visiting my Ams page. Dont wanna sound condescending but if I have z chance to accidentally bump in any VTer - u top the list, and u know why? No, that's not a question, it's a statement - u know why.
A very interesting page. Loved reading about the "Tulip girls" and I thought the 'call bikes' were a great idea!
Great updates from our latest Glühwein Meeting here. Well done. Karlsruhe really seems to be a very popular place for all sorts of VT meetings.
an interesting page and great updates again from the Glühwein-meeting , thanks for sharing, Don !
I enjoyed your latest updates though they just made me wish even more that I could have made the 6th Gluehwein meeting!
Great updates on your Karlsruhe page! That illuminated Christmas Tree came out wonderfully!
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