About
This is one of the busiest funicular lines in a city with four inclined cable railways.
Although it was not the city’s first, or second, or even third cable railway line, the Funicolare Centrale has gone on to become one of the world’s most regularly used and heavily trafficked funiculars. The Funicolare Centrale was opened on October 28, 1928. Two years of construction were required to build the line that facilitated the increasingly heavy traffic between the elevated Piazza Vanvitelli and the lower precincts of central Naples. Preceded by the Chiaia and Montesanto funiculars (as well as the Mount Vesuvius funicular, which was eventually destroyed in 1944), the Funicolare Centrale was immediately popular, saving many thousands of pedestrians a toilsome daily climb.
