Tom Scott

The Strangest Elevator In Italy: the Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto, Genoa (2016x23)

Air date: May 16, 2016

Continuing the occasional Weird European Infrastructure Tour: an Italian lift that switches direction from horizontal to vertical. And honestly, until someone pointed it out to me, I could not figure out how this could possibly be done safely. In hindsight, it was kind of obvious. (By the way, the Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto is known by a few names: I went by the one that seems most commonly used online by both Italian-speaking and English-speaking folk.)