The idea of building the Rio de Janeiro Sugar Loaf cable cars came from a well-known Brazilian engineer called Augusto Ferreira Ramos in 1908 during the Brazil National Exhibition that took place right next to Sugar Loaf. The exhibition attendees were quite intrigued and impressed by the monumental rock and wished they could go up there. At that time the only way to reach Sugar Loaf summit was by rock-climbing.
Ramos had the idea of connecting Urca and Sugar Loaf hills with a cable car system similar to the ones that had been recently installed in Europe. Combining his desire and entrepreneurial vein with his engineering background, the Rio de Janeiro Sugar Loaf cable car lines came into being.
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