Sugar Loaf one of the main tourist attractions of Rio de Janeiro

The Sugar Loaf is one of the main tourist attractions of Rio de Janeiro and receives thousands of tourists daily. To get to the top of the hill of Urca and the hill of Sugar Loaf, currently used cable cars deployed in 1972 idealized by the Italian firm Nardo, and awarded the 4th Mountain Hall in Turin in 1971. The service of the Bondinho has been operating since 1912 The current cable car has the capacity to carry 1360 passengers per hour. From the top of the mountain you can see several points of the city, including Flamengo Park, Cristo Redentor, Santos Dumont Airport, Guanabara Bay, beaches and several other points. Image taken on March 16, 2017, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Luiz Souza/NurPhoto via Getty Images)