Skyway Monte Bianco is a cable car in the Italian Alps , linking the town of Courmayeur with Pointe Helbronner on the southern side of the Mont Blanc massif . Taking over three years to construct, it opened in 2015 at a cost of 110 million euros, and is considered to be the world's most expensive cable car installation.
17-563: From the cablecar base station at Entrèves (at an altitude of 1,300 meters above sea level), the Skyway Monte Bianco rises to a mid-way station at Pavillon Du Mont-Frety at an altitude of 2,173 meters. It takes six minutes to reach this point, during which time the 80-person cabin makes one complete rotation, giving visitors all-round views into the Aosta valley and along both Val Veny and Val Ferret , as well as improved access to
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51-651: A location in Aosta Valley is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vald%C3%B4tain Valdôtain ( [valdotɛ̃] ; local dialect: Valdotèn , Valdŏtèn , Valdouhtan ) is a dialect of Arpitan ( Franco-Provençal ) spoken in the Aosta Valley in Italy , and the common language of the Aosta Valley. It is commonly known as patois or patoué . It is not an official language,
68-568: A main language for a majority of the population, with significant multilingualism. It has been said that in the Aosta Valley there are as many forms of patois as there are bell towers, in reference to the high linguistic diversity in the region within the Valdôtain varieties of Franco-Provençal. However, they can be broadly classified into two main branches: those of the Upper Valley ( French : haute Vallée , Italian : alta valle ) to
85-649: A network of trails. Visitors can continue upwards via a second cable car which also slowly revolves, and takes ten minutes to reach Pointe Helbronner (known as the Eagles Nest ) at an altitude of 3,466 meters. Tourist facilities and scenic viewpoints provide close views of Mont Blanc, Aiguille d'Entrèves and the Vallée Blanche , but also views further out towards the Matterhorn , Monte Rosa and Gran Paradiso . A tunnel and lift system provide access from
102-855: The City';) has often been considered 'neutral', especially for the local-language media. Several subdialects of Valdôtain exist that exhibit unique features in terms of phonetics and vocabulary. Valdôtain has been the subject of detailed study at the Bureau régional pour l'ethnologie et la linguistique (BREL) in Aosta as well as in the Centre d'études francoprovençales in Saint-Nicolas . The main modern singers and songwriters in Valdôtain are: The traditional Aostan songs in Valdôtain and in French form
119-763: The Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif and a link via the Vallée Blanche Aerial Tramway to the Aiguille du Midi , from where a separate cable car descends to the town of Chamonix in France . The half-way station of the Pavillon contains a restaurant and conference centre, plus one of the highest botanical gardens in the region, containing some 900 alpine plant species, as well as access to
136-573: The cable car terminus to the Torino Hut , a high-altitude mountain refuge offering accommodation both to tourists and to climbers intending to access the mountaineering routes of the range. The Skyway Monte Bianco was designed by architect, Carlo Rossi, took four years to construct, and involved complete rebuilding of the Point Helbronner terminus at a cost of 110 million euros. The cable cars were manufactured by Doppelmayr Cable Car and
153-502: The core of the activity of the band Trouveur valdotèn . Here is a selection of some of the most important poets in Valdôtain: Cllier et seren lo ten apré la piôdze Cé bé soleil que torne égueeyìno la Val I sorton le feumélle ch'achèté su la lôye In precassèn de queut tant bien que mal[...] Esplojon de meuseucca Feusette de joèce Tsarriemèn de note que chorton Su lé, iou lé clliotse dzalaouse Le vardon
170-480: The high alpine environment. In 2016, Skyway Monte Bianco was used as the setting for an action-adventure sequence in the major comedy spy movie Kingsman: The Golden Circle . Entr%C3%A8ves Entrèves ( Valdôtain : Euntréve or Éntréve ) is a frazione (French: hameau) of Courmayeur in the Aosta Valley region of Italy . 45°49′N 6°58′E / 45.817°N 6.967°E / 45.817; 6.967 This article on
187-507: The new cable car included an agreement to remove the old cable car infrastructure. The full cost of the development, when all the associated infrastructure is included, was 138 million euros, making it the world's most expensive cable car installation at the time of its opening in 2015. The cableway opened in 23 June 2015, and was much celebrated by the Italians, but ignored by the French. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi officially opened
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#1732765148922204-417: The new cable car system, and was presented with a golden ice axe by regional president, Augusto Rollandin on their arrival at the summit station on Pointe Helbronner. A corresponding, but much older cable car on the northern side of the Mont Blanc massif, which ascends from Chamonix to the Aiguille du Midi , attracts around 500,000 people per annum, with an annual turnover of 16 million euros. Previously
221-471: The older Funivia Monte Bianco attracted 100,000 visitors per annum, but the new Skyway Monte Bianco was forecast to attract some 300,000 visitors per year. Concerns were expressed by environmental organisations, both before and after the Skyway's construction. These centred around the 'disproportionate scale' and very high impact of the development on the mountain environment, as well as the commoditisation of
238-485: The structural integrity of the mountain, explosives were not used during the tunnel's construction. Instead, a series of small holes were drilled, each 40 cm diameter, using a technique known as raise boring . The tunnel and vertical shaft together provide firm anchorage to the cable car equipment, each cable of which has to be capable of carrying loads of over 100 tons. The base of the vertical shaft also houses water tanks for fire-fighting purposes. Permission to construct
255-584: The top station was engineered so as to minimise energy consumption, and includes solar panels and highly efficient insulation in order to bring it close to a zero-energy building . The horizontal tunnel and vertical well which now give access to Pointe Helbronner, the Torino Hut and the Vallee Blanche, also serve to anchor the cable car station into the rock. The vertical lift shaft is a 5 metre wide well, approximately 70 m in depth. To avoid damage to
272-482: The two regional official languages being French and Italian, though it is officially recognized . The Aosta Valley represents the only region of the Franco-Provençal area where this language is still widely spoken natively among all age ranges of the population, with a 2001 survey reporting almost 58% of the population know Franco-Provençal. A further 2003 study confirmed the status of Franco-Provençal as
289-677: The west and of the Lower Valley ( French : basse Vallée , Italian : bassa valle ) to the east of the city of Aosta . Valdôtain varieties from the Upper Valley tend to be more innovative and have more affinity with from varieties spoken in Savoy and in Valais , across the national borders; meanwhile, those from the Lower Valley tend to be more conservative, with influence from Piedmontese . The urban variety of Aosta itself ( Arpitan : patoué de la Veulla , lit. 'Patois of
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