Ljubljana Castle Funicular
Cable-hauled glass-walled cabin gliding up a hillside from the market square to a medieval fortress.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Ljubljana Castle Funicular starts with a letter the city's mayor, Ivan Hribar, sent to the Austro-Hungarian authorities in the eighteen nineties, and the bargain he promised it would be. It follows the architects, painters and designers who picked up his idea across the twentieth century, including Boris Kobe, a pupil of Jože Plečnik. Best heard at the lower station on Krek Square, watching the cabin come down the hill.
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