The Funivia di Monteviasco (''Monteviasco Ropeway'') is a

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cable car Cable car most commonly refers to the following cable transportation systems: * Aerial lift, such as aerial tramways and gondola lifts, in which the vehicle is suspended in the air from a cable ** Aerial tramway ** Chairlift ** Gondola lift *** Bi ...

connecting ''Ponte di Piero'' and ''Monteviasco'', in the

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Curiglia con Monteviasco Curiglia con Monteviasco is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northwest of Milan and about northwest of Varese Varese ( , , or ; lmo, label= Varesino, Varés ; la, Baretiu ...

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). The cable car was built and inaugurated in 1989 in order to break the isolation of the village of Monteviasco in val Veddasca (a valley near the

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), which is not reached by driveways or railways and was previously accessible only by a couple of steep footpaths. The base station in ''Ponte di Piero'' is at an altitude of 543m, with the top station in ''Monteviasco'' at 943m. The cable car climbs with an ascension of 400m in an overall length of 981m. The cableway features a single car carrying 15 people; the service runs year-round, with different timetables depending from the season. Tickets are sold in both stations; the prices are set by the regional authority of

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, because the cableway is part of the public transport network. Since November 12, 2018 the cableway is out of order, following a fatal accident which caused the death of a maintenance technician.

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Cable cars in Italy 1989 establishments in Italy Transport infrastructure completed in 1989 {{Italy-transport-stub