Srđ

This guide to Srđ above Dubrovnik asks how many times you can build the same machine on one bare limestone ridge, and the honest answer is twice. It opens in 1969 with the first cable car ever raised on the Adriatic coast, hauled up a mountain with no road, and follows it through two decades of popularity before war reached the mountain and left the line wrecked beyond running. Look for the lower station at the base, where later builders could still piece together the original tower and column from the wreckage.