Estación Pío Nono Funicular Santiago by Turistik

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.