Funivia Malcesine

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Funivia Malcesine-Monte Baldo
Mountain station
Location: Malcesine VEN IVeneto  ItalyItaly 
Mountains: Monte Baldo , Alps
Overall length: 4,325 m
Height difference: 1,650 m
110 m 1,760 m
Valley station: 45 ° 45 ′ 58.4 "  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 48.2"  E
Middle station: 45 ° 46 '7.9 "  N , 10 ° 49' 53.3"  E
Mountain station: 45 ° 46 '9.3 "  N , 10 ° 51' 51.4"  E
journey
Duration : 4 ½ minutes (1st part)
8 minutes (2nd part)
Speed : 10 m / s (1st section)
8 m / s (2nd section)
Transport performance : 600 people / h
background
Owner : Azienda Trasporti Funicolari Malcesine Monte Baldo
Verona , Italy
Opening: September 30, 1962
Contact: funiviedelbaldo.it

The Funivia Malcesine-Monte Baldo is a cable car on the Monte Baldo mountain in northern Italy.

The cable car with the valley station in Malcesine was built in 1962 and technically upgraded by Hölzl Seilbahnbau in 2002 , and gondolas rotating through 360 degrees were installed; the first in the world. It has a total length of 4325 meters and overcomes 1650 meters of altitude . The transport capacity is 600 people per hour. The journey time is 15 minutes. A gondola holds 45 people (lower section) or 80 people (upper section).

Middle and mountain station

There is the Malcesine - San Michele section with 1512 meters in length and 463 meters in altitude (lower section) and San Michele - Monte Baldo with 2813 meters in length and 1187 meters in altitude (upper section; the Tratto Spino mountain station is 1760 meters above sea level) .

The track is open 10 months a year. The operator is the Azienda Trasporti Funicolari Malcesine Monte Baldo in Verona, which was founded in 1955. The latter is controlled by a public consortium made up of the municipality of Malcesine, the province of Verona and the Verona Chamber of Commerce.

See also

Web links

Commons : Funivia Malcesine - Monte Baldo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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