Posillipo cableway, Aerial lift in Fuorigrotta and Posillipo, Naples, Italy.
The Posillipo cableway was an aerial lift running 1,629 m between Fuorigrotta and Posillipo, with 945 m of climb and a 104 m difference in height. Designed by Giulio De Luca and built by Ceretti e Tanfani, it had two 20-person cabins and three steel pylons, still standing. The lower station was a square reinforced-concrete building on viale Kennedy; the upper station stood at the end of via Manzoni.
The cableway was inaugurated on 9 May 1940, alongside the Mostra delle Terre d'Oltremare, but public service lasted only until 10 June 1940. German troops occupying Naples in 1943 almost completely destroyed the line. Rebuilding began in 1950 and the new inauguration took place on 8 June 1952; service was suspended on 2 February 1961. The upper station was later rented to the restaurant "Gulliver", which failed in the 1990s, while the lower station became a gardening centre.
Locals nicknamed the surviving pylons "cristi" because their shape recalls a Christian cross. The lower station on Viale Kennedy later became a gardening centre, and one of the two cabins, badly deteriorated, can still be seen inside. The upper station was rented to the "Gulliver" restaurant until its bankruptcy in the 1990s.
The lower station on viale Kennedy in Fuorigrotta became a garden centre, and one of the two cabins is still visible inside, badly deteriorated. The upper station at the end of via Manzoni was rented to the "Gulliver" restaurant before it failed in the 1990s. The three support pylons remain standing and can be seen from the street.
The three giant pylons that carried the cableway still stand and are nicknamed "cristi" by locals because their shape recalls a Christian cross. One of the two cabins, badly deteriorated, can still be seen inside the lower station at Viale Kennedy in Fuorigrotta.
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