Il trasporto a fune a Napoli

Naples represents an interesting case of a city with signi cant morphological complexity. The coastline de nes the boundary of a territory with a highly irregular shape, rising from the narrow strip in front of the sea towards the hills and forming a crown around the city, a sort of "oblique city". For a long time, Naples was a city located on the plateau overlooking the sea, with a few large urban buildings positioned on the hills, such as Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino. When urban development sped up, the urbanization process inevitably expanded to the hillside as well. This process made it necessary to implement a new mobility network. To adapt to the system of hills, the new road network was supplemented by special transportation typologies, known as funiculars, which facilitated the transportation of people from the hilly areas, in particular the Vomero and Posillipo districts, to the historic city. This proved to be a solution to the arduous historical network of roads, which generally consisted of narrow serpentine trails (known as pedamentine) running up slopes that were often very steep. The result was the construction of four funiculars between the late nineteenthcentury and the 1930s, three of which connected the Vomero to the central city, and one linking Mergellina and Posillipo.