Elevators

Connected Sites: 22

Sites (or significant elements thereof) where an elevator is currently used to transport visitors vertically (ie excluding funiculars and cable cars).

Connected Sites

  • Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.59
    120
    10
    To descend the "Big Pit"
  • Bellinzone
    Bellinzone
    Switzerland
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.07
    191
    6
    To Castelgrande
  • Venice and its Lagoon
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.52
    610
    19
    Campanile
  • Salvador de Bahia
    Inscribed: 1985
    3.35
    73
    4
    Elevador Lacerda (Lacerda Elevator): Inaugurated in 1873
  • Vizcaya Bridge
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.89
    189
    10
    "There are two new visitors lifts installed in the 50 meter high pillars of the bridge that allow walking over the bridge's platform, from where there is a view of the port and the Abra bay." (Wiki)
  • Champagne
    Inscribed: 2015
    3.16
    220
    9
    Elevator in the caves of the Maison Pol Roger (Nomination file, Tome III, p. 105) - The elevator in the Château Perrier was installed in 1877 and was one of the first private elevators in France.
    See fr.wikipedia.org
  • Abbey of St Gall
    Abbey of St Gall
    Switzerland
    Inscribed: 1983
    3.16
    233
    6
    To the monastic library which is located on the third floor of the building
  • Carlsbad Caverns
    Carlsbad Caverns
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.47
    117
    11
    To get to the Big Room without walking too far
  • Wulingyuan
    Inscribed: 1992
    4.03
    56
    5
    World's tallest full-exposure outdoor elevator with biggest carrying capacity
  • Works of Antoni Gaudí
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.11
    552
    18
    Pedrera (to Gaudi's chimnies)
  • Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
    Inscribed: 1978
    3.73
    336
    18
    Used to bring tourists back to the surface after going underground by stairs
  • Vienna
    Vienna
    Austria
    Inscribed: 2001
    4.02
    591
    20
    Haas House
  • Valparaiso
    Inscribed: 2003
    3.12
    159
    12
    Ascensor Polanco
  • Valletta
    Inscribed: 1980
    3.76
    383
    10
    Barakka Lift
  • Statue of Liberty
    Statue of Liberty
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 1984
    3.30
    515
    19
    Available to the top of the pedestal
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine
    Inscribed: 1991
    4.19
    680
    20
    Eiffel Tower
  • Nice
    Nice
    France
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.78
    353
    5
    An elevator has been installed in the 1930s to go from the Terrasses des Ponchettes to the Colline du Château. (Nomination file, p. 62)
  • Heritage of Mercury
    Heritage of Mercury
    Slovenia, Spain
    Inscribed: 2012
    2.65
    152
    8
    Almaden
  • Graz
    Graz
    Austria
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.97
    255
    10
    Schlossberglifte
    See www.gvb.at
  • City of Luxembourg
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.17
    440
    12
    To get between the Grund and the historic centre
  • Belfries
    Belfries
    Belgium, France
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.95
    442
    17
    There is an elevator for tourists in the belfry of the Church of Saint-Éloi in Dunkerque and in the belfries of Arras and Lille. (Nomination file, p. 35, 38, 63)
  • Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.56
    169
    6
    In the Wedding Tower
    See de.wikipedia.org