Val Gardena, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site as well as a spectacular ski valley at the heart of the Italian Dolomites, will see a new funicular railway open this winter when its season begins on December 4th.
The Rasciesa funicular railway replaces the old chair lift on Rasciesa Alp above Ortisei. The higher the cable car rises the more spectacular the view and at the top there’s a breathtaking panorama encompasses almost the entire South Tyrol, the stunning Dolomites peaks, and mountains as far as Trentino, Lombardy and Austria.
The funicular will provide an alternative route from Ortisei to the Seceda gondola and the Gardena ski carousel, the Sella Massif, Sassolungo and the entire Dolomiti Superski area. Val Gardena itself has 83 lifts and 175km pistes, 95% of which benefit from snow-making facilities, providing more than 1200km of slopes including 115km of cross country skiing. From Val Gardena, access the world’s lagest ski-network covered by a single lift pass – the Dolomiti Superski – to enjoy 1220km of pistes of which 500km are inter-connected in the Sella region served by 450 lifts carrying 620,000 skiers per hour. The world famous Sella Ronda, accessible to intermediate skiers, is a spectacular linked circuit of the Sella (3151m) offering 26km and some 4500 vertical metres of skiing.