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Cable network
Ferrying thousands to the summit of Sugarloaf might seem like a tall order in itself. But Rio’s cable-car team will move mountains for their visitors.
Few attractions evoke the history and atmosphere of a city as precisely as the Sugarloaf cable car in Rio de Janeiro. The bondinho has bolstered the city’s image abroad, appearing in everything from 1979 James Bond film Moonraker to The Simpsons. But for residents, the gondola – which connects the Praia Vermelha beach to the Urca hill and the peak of Sugarloaf mountain, some 396 metres above sea level – symbolises a way of life too. Nestled in the heart of an urban neighbourhood but surrounded by vast swathes of Atlantic forest, it has come to…
