Estación Pío Nono Funicular Santiago by Turistik
Neo-medieval castle station of stone, gateway to a century-old funicular and its hilltop cafes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the funicular station on Cerro San Cristóbal in Santiago opens on a Saturday evening in April 1925, when Chilean president Arturo Alessandri and fifty formally dressed guests rode the cable cars uphill to a party in a purpose-built dining hall. It traces the three years Italian engineer Ernesto Bosso spent designing the funicular, and the neo-medieval castle station Chilean architect Luciano Kulczewski built at its base. You'll ride the same steep track today, close to five hundred meters, as Santiago spreads out below.
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