Funicular route
Mendelbahn
Sankt Anton (Kaltern) → Mendel Pass · Italy
- Distance
- 2.37 km
- Fastest time
- 12 min
- Operator
- STA Südtiroler Transportstrukturen
- Train
- Two counterbalanced cars with passing loop
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1903
Page last updated 2026-07-23 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Europe’s longest and steepest funicular at its 1903 opening, still climbing 854 m at up to 64% from South Tyrol’s wine country to the Mendel Pass.
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