The Cable car to Monserrate is a tourist aereal tramway that allows to everybody communicate to the Hill of Monserrate.
In February of 1952 they initiated the managements to advance the beginning of a system of complementary transport to the Funicular to mobilize to the travelling ones and the pilgrims to the Hill. He went as well as Louis de Roll in Bern, Switzerland contacted itself to the House, to acquire the Cableway. As of that moment they initiate a series of directed workings, as much to the financing of the project, like a the attainment of the engineering companies that would be in charge of the tasks of construction of the works that were required to install the loading station and entraining stations for passengers. It is as well as it entered operation the Cableway of Monserrate, novel means of transport that uses a cable system through which they advance the cabins: two heads of traction and two of tension, creating a counterbalance that the total synchrony in its mobilization allows him. Its cost was of 635.000 Swiss francs , which at the time was equivalent to 564.000 Colombian pesos, that plus the construction of the stations superior and inferior, it reached the million pesos. Soon, in February of 1955, two engineers for the installation of the machinery of the Cableway, Alfred Bigles and Walter Hofstetter arrive from Switzerland, who initiate the crucial stage in the setting operation of the Cableway that would take operations the 27 of September of the same year.
Capacity : 40 passengers.
Cost : US 5 at day.
US 6.5 at night.
Schedule : Monday to Saturday of 12 of the day to 12 of the night and Sundays and festival of 5:30 of the morning at 6 in the afternoon.
From : MissParticipación
