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Mt.
Vesuvius funicular
Only plant in the world climbing up on an active
volcano at that time, transported tourists on
the top of Mt. Vesuvius comfortably sitting,
from 1880 to 1944... |
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Mt.
Vesuvius railway
The need to make Mt. Vesuvius less isolated
induced to build in 1903 a metric gauge
rack-railway Pugliano-Vesuvio... |
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Mt.
Vesuvius chairlift
First twin-seat plant with moving chairs in
Italy, in office from 1953 to 1984, replaced
properly the funicular previously destroyed by
1944 eruption ... |
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Cook
station
It was a building of
exquisite workmanship made out of tufa, bricks and lavic stones, in
service of Vesuvius Railway, which from 1903 to 1955 linked up Pugliano
and... |
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Curios
and other
This section will publish
into digital format booklets, reviews, texts and articles extracted from
vintage books and publica-tions, plus curios about the topic... |
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