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Naples, Italy

Chiaia Funicular

Naples, Italy

Chiaia Funicular
Photo: Luigi Alberto075 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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The Chiaia Funicular is a funicular railway in Naples, Italy, linking Piazza Vanvitelli at the top of Vomero Hill with the Chiaia district below. Opened in 1889, it is among the oldest funicular railways in the world. Its upper station carries a Latin quotation from Lucretius's *De rerum natura* in gold lettering on a maroon band beneath the frieze, and the building is in the Art Nouveau style.

Movement

Type
funicular, railway line
Place
Naples, Italy

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Location

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