Floating Tram in Wuppertal, Germany and Visit Engels House Museum, Communist Manifesto Creation

 The floating tram is in Wuppertal, Germany, on the north coast of the country.

The name Wuppertal comes from the river Wupper. Tal means dale.

Let's start with where is it. North Germany.

The city has steep streets, green parks including a sculpture park, and several architecturally interesting modern buildings.

Steep Streets

Green Parks - Sculpture

A memorable landmark in the colourful figure of eight, flat roof, junior university building. 

The orange tower.

The Lawrence Church

Church, Germany.

The swimming pool

Swimming pool, Germany.

Ilisenturm

Elisenturm, Wuppertal, Germany.

Engel's House

Photo and caption from Manos in Wikipedia.

A museum you can visit. Very opulent, capitalist looking house. 

Family home, of Friedrich Engels, who jointly with Marx wrote the Communist manifesto in the swan restaurant in Brussels, Belgium.

Another modern building, the New Burgische Synagogue.

The city is twinned with the Shonan monoril in Japan.

Shonan monorail, Japan. 

You can find monorails worldwide, in Singapore, and East London in England. But the suspended monorails look more challenging for the builders - and nervous  passengers!

Pina Bauch Dance Theatre

Pina Bausch was famous for her dance groups which improvised and did unusual theatre. One well-known performance had the dancers with blindfolds. Dancers served tea from trays to the front row of the audience. 

Her groups performed worldwide, including ain the cultural Olympics fbefore the Olypic games. Other danced in a forest of leaves falling about them, or on soil underfoot. After she died, the group continued.

More information from

Useful Websties

Suspended railway in Wuppertal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn?

Visit Engels House in Wuppertal, Germany

https://www.mi-wuppertal.de/en/news/guided-tour-engels-garden#:~:text=After%20the%20guided%20tour%2C%20you,is%20included%20in%20the%20price.

Wikipedia Wuppertal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal

Monorail in Japan

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shonan_Monorail

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