Castel San Pietro

This guide to Castel San Pietro in Verona rides the cliffside funicular built in 1939 for students at the Fine Arts Academy housed in the old fortress above, and tracks its strange interruptions: shutting down during the war, then briefly taken over in 1975 by an experimental theatre troupe staging plays on its abandoned tracks. You'll hear how the line was eventually cleared and rebuilt into the funicular carrying you up today. Notice the rails still bolted straight into the rock as you climb.