Funicular route
Schlossbergbahn Graz
Graz → Schlossberg · Austria
Schlossbergbahn Graz in pictures
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- Distance
- 0.21 km
- Fastest time
- 2 min
- Operator
- Holding Graz
- Train
- Funicular
- Countries
- Austria
- In service since
- 1894
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Up the Schlossberg through the trees since 1894, from the Mur embankment to the clock tower above Graz’s red roofs.
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