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Santorini Cable Car

Santorini Cable Car

Cable car in Greece


The Santorini Cable Car connects the port with the town of Thera in Santorini island in Greece. It was constructed as a donation of the “Loula & Evangelos Nomikos Foundation”.[1] The cable car, technically a pulsed Gondola lift, was built by Doppelmayr, has a capacity of 1,200 people per hour (600 per hour in each direction). The journey takes 3 minutes.[2]

Santorini Cable Car

The cable car enables visitors arriving by ship to ascend the cliffs easily and quickly.[3] Each car carries six passengers.


References

  1. "Santorini cable car". Santorini.com. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
  2. The New York Times Magazine. October 1990. p. 61. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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