Grenoble cable car

The Grenoble Cable Car is the world’s first urban cable car. Very quickly, like the Eiffel Tower in Paris, it became the symbol of Grenoble, which remains to this day.

At the beginning of the XX century, the authorities of Grenoble thought about how to facilitate access to the Bastille and at the same time provide the capital of the French Alps with a tourist highlight. Thus was born the idea of building a cable car, which forever changed the face of Grenoble. On September 29, 1934, a loud buzzer announced the start of the suspension road.

The first passenger cabins were quite traditional: large “cars” that could accommodate up to 21 passengers. But in 1976, they were replaced by engineer Danny Kressel small six-seater spherical cubicles made of plexiglass, which very soon dubbed bubbles and space eggs.