Cable car · Selva, Italy
Piz Sella
Piz Sella is a cable car near Selva, Italy. It climbs 444 m over 1.61 km, from 1,786 m to 2,229 m above sea level. Between its 1 pylon, the cable runs up to about 103 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
83/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Piz Sella is scarier than 83% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 63 of 301 in Italy.
- Highest above the ground: about 103 m, higher than the Statue of Liberty (93 m), 1.08 km after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 1.22 km.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 16°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 985 m of the 1.61 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Piz Sella is near Selva, Italy, at 1,786 m above sea level (46.53370° N, 11.77198° E). From there it runs 1.61 km up to the top station at 2,229 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 1,200 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 100 people
- Ride time
- about 3 min
Nearby lines
- Piz Seteur 2 gondola · 0.8 km away · rises 104 m
- Ciampinoi gondola · 1.4 km away · rises 684 m
- Furcela de Saslonch - Langkofelschartenbahn - Forcella del Sassolungo gondola · 2.6 km away · rises 525 m
- Saslong gondola · 2.6 km away · rises 538 m
- Dantercepies I gondola · 2.7 km away · rises 516 m
- Dantercepies II gondola · 3.5 km away · rises 121 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.