Cable car · Birkhadem, Algeria
Téléphérique Palais de la Culture
Téléphérique Palais de la Culture is a cable car near Birkhadem, Algeria. It climbs 93 m over 393 m, from 22 m to 115 m above sea level. Between its 1 pylon, the cable runs up to about 41 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
23/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, Téléphérique Palais de la Culture is scarier than 23% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 13 of 22 in Algeria.
- Highest above the ground: about 41 m, as high as a 14-storey building, 193 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 282 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 17°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Téléphérique Palais de la Culture is near Birkhadem, Algeria, at 22 m above sea level (36.74202° N, 3.08318° E). From there it runs 393 m up to the top station at 115 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 1,155 people per hour
- Ride time
- about 2 min
Nearby lines
- Téléphérique Mémorial cable car · 1.0 km away · rises 86 m
- Téléphérique El Madania cable car · 1.7 km away · rises 101 m
- Télécabine Oued Korriche gondola · 6.5 km away · rises 308 m
- Télécabine Z'ghara gondola · 7.2 km away · rises 93 m
- Téléphérique Notre Dame d'Afrique cable car · 7.7 km away · rises 94 m
- Télécabine Blida gondola · 36.3 km away · rises 732 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.