Glória Funicular
Funicular climbing steeply to the Bairro Alto viewpoint, in service since eighteen eighty-five.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Glória Funicular in Lisbon centers on the evening of September third, twenty twenty-five, when brakeman André Marques was descending the steep Calçada da Glória on a packed car during an ordinary Wednesday rush hour. It sets that evening against the funicular's full history, inaugurated in eighteen eighty-five and running for one hundred forty years, carrying three million passengers a year up the hill. Stand at the foot of the hill, where the yellow cars once queued, before you listen.
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