What was the thinking behind using models for the funicular that runs up to the hotel—and for the first shots of the hotel itself?
These were the days before the funicular from Stresa, when one trudged up a rude path through the chestnuts and walnuts.
They start along the terrace toward the station of the funicular railway.
Now the first excitement of my own life was on such a rail, which seemed a funicular made for my special benefit.
Can't you get aboard the funicular yourself and start your journey?
This is the origin of the names “link-polygon” and “funicular” (cf. 2).
The case of the funicular polygon will be of use to us later.
"It must be jolly to run the funicular up Parnassus," said Sylvia to this young man.
They insisted on bringing us down early for the funicular, and here are your bags.
From the river a funicular leads up to the broad terraces in front of the Pavilion.
1660s, from Latin funiculus, diminutive of funis "a cord, rope."
