Cable car · Vigo di Fassa, Italy
Vigo - Catinaccio
Vigo - Catinaccio is a cable car near Vigo di Fassa, Italy. It climbs 569 m over 1.41 km, from 1,423 m to 1,992 m above sea level. With no pylon on the way, the cable runs up to about 160 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
93/100 · Very scary
By the numbers, Vigo - Catinaccio is scarier than 93% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 29 of 301 in Italy.
- Highest above the ground: about 160 m, higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza (139 m), 840 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 1.41 km.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 22°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 1.02 km of the 1.41 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Vigo - Catinaccio is near Vigo di Fassa, Italy, at 1,423 m above sea level (46.42127° N, 11.67120° E). From there it runs 1.41 km up to the top station at 1,992 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 1,300 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 100 people
- Ride time
- about 3 min
Nearby lines
- Pozza - Buffaure gondola · 3.4 km away · rises 719 m
- König Laurin II - Re Laurino II gondola · 5.0 km away · rises 320 m
- Franzin gondola · 5.7 km away · rises 195 m
- Hubertus gondola · 5.8 km away · rises 125 m
- König Laurin I - Re Laurino I gondola · 5.8 km away · rises 253 m
- Ronchi - Valbona gondola · 7.4 km away · rises 447 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.