In only one hundred days after the Trebevic cable car reopening, the number of visitors who rode the cable car from the Sarajevo centre to the Trebevic mountain reached nearly 400,000, Sarajevo Mayor Abdulah Skaka said on Thursday.
Skaka announced the new projects, which will be implemented this year and will enrich the tourism offer of the Bosnian capital. One of them is 800-metres ski slope down the Trebevic Mountain.
“We plan to build a perfect ski slope of some 800 metres. We can expect its presentation in September,” said the mayor, adding. “Together with the Sarajevo Canton and other competent institutions we plan to construct the bicycle trails and the running trails too, all that with an aim of returning Trebevic to the citizens of Sarajevo.”
The legendary Trebevic cable car, one of the symbols of Sarajevo, reopened on April 6, on the Bosnian capital's birthday after being destroyed in the 1992-95 war and the lengthy restoration project.
The first passenger on the restored Trebevic cable car were the Dutch-Swiss nuclear physicist and philanthropist Edmond Offerman and his wife Maja, a native of Sarajevo. Offerman had donated 3.8 million Swiss francs for the project to help rebuild the service he first rode when he visited the city and enjoyed its scenic vistas in the early 1990s.
“Some 200 official media outlets carried the information on the Trebevic cable car reopening,” said Skaka, adding that the exact number of 393,694 cable car rides were registered by now and that of over 200,000 sold tickets more than 40,000 were bought by foreign tourists.
A restaurant near the famous Trebevic viewpoint will also be constructed in the near future, the mayor said.
“This indeed is a symbol that was returned to Sarajevans to use it,” he concluded.
