Mountain route
Bom Jesus do Monte Funicular
Braga → Bom Jesus do Monte · Portugal
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Bom Jesus do Monte Funicular in pictures
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- Distance
- 0.27 km
- Fastest time
- 3 min
- Average speed
- 5 km/h
- Operator
- Irmandade do Bom Jesus do Monte
- Train
- Original 1882 Riggenbach water-ballast cars
- Countries
- Portugal
- In service since
- 1882
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The world’s oldest water-balance funicular in continuous service (1882), climbing beside the baroque stairway of UNESCO-listed Bom Jesus do Monte.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11280574 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 1 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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