Gondola · Badia, Italy
Piz la Ila
Piz la Ila is a gondola near Badia, Italy. It climbs 649 m over 1.75 km, from 1,424 m to 2,073 m above sea level. Between its 3 pylons, the cable runs up to about 124 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
89/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Piz la Ila is scarier than 89% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 43 of 301 in Italy.
- Highest above the ground: about 124 m, higher than the Statue of Liberty (93 m), 449 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 1.18 km.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 26°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 1.02 km of the 1.75 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Piz la Ila is near Badia, Italy, at 1,424 m above sea level (46.58095° N, 11.90107° E). From there it runs 1.75 km up to the top station at 2,073 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 2,200 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 15 people
Nearby lines
- Ferata Gran Risa funicular · 0.9 km away · rises 21 m
- Piz Sorega gondola · 2.4 km away · rises 455 m
- Col Alto gondola · 3.1 km away · rises 419 m
- Col Pradat gondola · 3.8 km away · rises 315 m
- Borest gondola · 4.1 km away · rises 58 m
- La Crusc 1 gondola · 4.3 km away · rises 492 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.