Escadas dos Guindais
Two-hundred-ninety-step stone stairway climbing a river cliff beside a medieval fortified wall.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Escadas dos Guindais opens with a funicular car breaking loose on the fifth of June 1893, just after the line opened beside the Dom Luis bridge, and the company's abandoned promise to reopen it. It follows the stone stairway that took over for the next century, cut beside the fourteenth-century Fernandine wall and named for the old winches once used to haul wine casks up from the Ribeira dockside. Listen for how long the stairs kept working after the funicular's failure.
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