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SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - APRIL 06: A very famous landmark of Bosnia and Herzegovina's capital Sarajevo, the cable car was reopened on April 06, 2018 with a ceremony after a 26-year break.Considered as one of the most important symbols of Sarajevo, the cable car was first opened in 1959, but its rise to international prominence came with the Winter Olympics that Sarajevo hosted in 1984.However, it was destroyed by Serb troops in 1992 at an early phase of the siege of Sarajevo between April 1992 and February 1996, during which almost 14,000 people were killed, nearly 5,500 of them being civilians.Speaking at the reopening ceremony of the cable car, Mayor of Sarajevo Abdulah Skaka said that, with the cable car’s reentering into service, the last destroyed symbol of Sarajevo had now been restored."Today is a great day for Sarajevo," Skaka said.Mustafa Tuna, the mayor of Turkey's capital Ankara, was also present at the ceremony in addition to a number of other officials.Edmond Offerman, a businessperson who donated 3.5 million euros for the project, said that it was with a phone call back in 2008 that the story of the cable car’s reparation began. "I am happy to see that this meaningful project is completed today," Offerman said.The cable car will be operating between the city center and Mount Trebevic, located to the south of the capital.Its station on the mountain was named after the first civilian victim of the city, Ramo Biber, killed in March 1992, guarding the old Trebevic gondola. A monument was erected at the station to honor Biber."He was the guardian of our symbol, and we will be the guardians of his name," reads a plaque on the monument.Biber's sister Fahra Biber recalled that the cable car had never worked again after the day her brother was killed.Rebuilt by the municipality of Sarajevo, the cable car will serve on a 2,100-meter line between the city center and Mount Trebevic. (Footage by Nihad Ibrahimkadic/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)