The rack-and-pinion railway that once labored up the ferociously steep hill closed in the 1930s, but the railway station is still here, its arches visible over the perfectly clipped public gardens Jardim do Monte (established 1894).
The railway station is still here, even though the rack-and-pinion railway that once labored up the ferociously steep hill closed in the 1930s.
The public gardens Jardim do Monte are not being trimmed at all.