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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Elevador do Bom jesus

Yesterday we posted about the inclined lift at Kaprun in Austria. A reader pointed me to the funicular lift of Bom Jesus do Monte, in the city of Braga in Portugal. It's over 100 years old.
The lift was built in 1882 by Niklaus Riggenbach and is the oldest funicular in the world moving by water counterbalancing, loading water into the car at the top of the hill, which weighs it down so it descends to the bottom, at the same time drawing the lighter, drained car up the hill, where the process starts all over again.

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