{"id":3862,"date":"2010-12-22T15:17:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T05:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2010-12-22T15:17:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T05:17:42","slug":"koblenz-cable-car-koblenz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/germany\/koblenz-cable-car-koblenz","title":{"rendered":"Koblenz Cable Car or BUGA Cable Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Koblenz <\/strong>has a new cable car \u2013 the longest in Europe outside of the Alps and the first of its kind in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to build a cable car across the Rhine was taken as part of the city&#8217;s planning for the <strong>Bundesgartenschau 2011 (BUGA 2011), <\/strong>the Federal Horticultural Show to be held in Koblenz from April to October 2011.\u00a0 Two million visitors are expected to attend the six-month garden extravaganza and\u00a0 eco-studies showed that the cable car provides a better eco-balance than using buses.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3863\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/travelsignposts.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Koblenz-Rheinseilbahn.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3863\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3863\" title=\"Koblenz-Rheinseilbahn\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Koblenz-Rheinseilbahn.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Koblenz-Rheinseilbahn.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Koblenz-Rheinseilbahn.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Koblenz-Rheinseilbahn.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Koblenz Cable Car \u00a9 Holger Weinandt\/Wiki<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Built at a cost of Euros 12 million, the Koblenz cable car will also be one of the Bundesgartenschau&#8217;s special attractions. The cable car travels across the Rhine from <strong>Deutsches Eck<\/strong> up to <strong>Ehrenbreitstein Fortress<\/strong>, a distance of 850 metres, giving visitors breathtaking aerial views of the Rhine and Moselle.<\/p>\n<p>There are<strong> 18 gondolas<\/strong>, each with a<strong> 35-passenger capacity<\/strong>.\u00a0  And if you&#8217;re not fearful of heights, one of the cabins has a glass floor so you can look down into the Rhine as the cable car takes you across. It is expected that 3,500 passengers can be transported per hour in each direction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booking.com\/searchresults.html?aid=322131;sid=5f73d85eb78810524f230db50dc6aea9;class_interval=1;idf=1;offset=0;score_min=0;si=ai%2Cco%2Cci%2Cre%2Cdi;ss_all=0;city=-1809855;origin=disamb;srhash=2091674538;srpos=1\" target=\"_blank\">To get the best room in the house, book your <strong>Koblenz hotels <\/strong>early.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koblenz has a new cable car \u2013 the longest in Europe outside of the Alps and the first of its kind in Germany. 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