Etna cable car to 2,500 m
Guide
Photo: Dror Feitelson · CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
≈ A$88ViewpointAllow 1.5–2.5 hPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
A cable car from the Rifugio Sapienza up to about 2,500 m, into a landscape of black sand and lava, with walks to recent craters.
A brief history
Lava flows have destroyed the cable car and the huts several times, most recently in 2001 and 2002.
Tips
- Best time
- Morning; take a warm layer
- Cost
- About €50 (check)
- Allow
- 1.5–2.5 h
- Hours
- Runs most days; stops in strong wind or eruptions (check)
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Good to know
- Area
- Rifugio Sapienza: The car park, huts and cable car at 1,900 m.
- Access
- Partly step-free
- Indoors or out
- Outdoors
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