The Strangest Elevator In Italy: the Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto, Genoa
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- 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.)
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The coolest thing about Genoa's subway system is that you don't have to go down any steps. You just walk straight into the hill, and you're in the tunnel
true, but for S. Agostino station only. On the opposite the Brin station is up on an iron bridge upside the roads. The same (only) line is alltogether "underground, upground and overground"
"Surely that's dangerous, and I say that wearing a red shirt" brilliant.
that's Tom for you red shirts and witty quirks.... shit I rymed
+A Very Good Man i dont get it
+Alex Harris Minor characters in Star Trek wearing red uniforms are considered prone to death
I'm glad I'm not the only one that laughed at this.
@@devastator5042 No you didn't.
Less a lift that goes sideways, and more a tram that drives onto an elevator. cleaver work around.
+Kerbal Rocketry Yes, very cleaver, I'd sure like to meat the person who came up with the idea.
Jaco Blades
oh damn I really butchered my spelling there.
*****
Don't worry, we all make misteaks.
Was gonna make a joke relating Kerbals and botched spelling; but I don't wanna argue sim antics.
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Brilliant 😂
It seems rather odd to build such an elevator just so the people storming your castle don't tire themselves out.
+Michael Sommers Well, the Italians are known for being accommodating.
+Cherry.Bakewell yeah, so accommodating that almost no subway station in Rome has any escalators or lifts. Had to pull my heavy luggage through several terminals.
It isn't just for the castle itself
Can't have all the "new Europeans " walking around using thier feet like suckers....
Gosh... you think it was built only to reach the castle... ... Have you ever been there, took the elevator? That elevator prevents people living in the nearby from climbing across a hill, skipping a long walk or traffic. In a vertical city such engineering works are normal. As in Lisbon. Why no complaint about the portuguese? Haha
Reminds me of the beginning of Half Life
+grande1899 *Ha*, just said the same thing to my husband!
+grande1899 "The Real Black Mesa Elevator" would have been a hell of a clickbait title, but I think it'd have just made a lot of people angry. (Also, it would have needed me to know something about video games to spot the reference...!)
+Tom Scott You're never too old to start playing some video games Tom. Who knows, you might like it.
***** Or just go full clickbait and title it "Half Life 3 release date announced!"
Or Half Life 4 episode 3 part 4 3/5 season pass 2, download link below
I’m from Genoa and this video made unreasonably happy for some reason. I love our weird elevators so much
You know you live in a strange city when Tom Scott comes to visit it to make a video about an elevator! It's a pity that I didn't know you were in town, otherwise i would have come to say hello! Hope you enjoyed your visit!
+Tom Scott
@@MrRaffo99 Anche io sono genovese e il video l'ho visto solo ora, mannaggia ahah
+1 for 'Red shirt'
yes
+Phil Peace -12 for not making a half-life reference, though.
+jcmccrae no this is the real world. only movies and books count there. you should know that jcmccrae :D
+Phil Peace and an extra thumb up because no Red-shirts were harmed in producing this film ^^
***** Star Trek.
"Good morning and welcome to the Black Mesa Transit System..."
"...This automated train is provided for the security and convenience of employees of the Black Mesa Research Facility personnel. Please feel free to move about the train or simply sit back and enjoy the ride."
starts having nam style flashbacks
The time is 8:47 AM.
I guess you could say they really thought... outside the box!
Ba dum tssss
+David Ward No, you go inside the box.
+David Ward the orange box?
If only that elevator could talk; oh, the storeys it could tell!
These videos make me want to travel the world. 🙂
Do it, I travel a lot, there's nothing like it. Get out there and see the world while you can.
@@shaunpierce4174 There's still a pandemic on Shaun
Europe is stunning and FULL of amazing places. I particularly love gorgeous Spain and Italy because of the very interesting and far reaching history + I can speak the languages. The best thing of it all is (was) that you could simply hop into your car and go anywhere and use your phone for free, free medical care etc. Now it really is travelling the world. Sad.
Lift vs elevator, love how he just abandons all local terms and just uses them interchangeably
+midgetwars1 IKR
+midgetwars1 I thought it was only something non-native speakers did. I'm neither British nor American and I frequently find myself alternating between "movie" and "film", sometimes even in the same sentence.
he replyed to a comment earlyer saying it was purly to annoy people like you.
Caleb Hubbard Who said I was annoyed. Read what I wrote.
+midgetwars1 To give you some insight (assuming you've none): I'm English, and I use a lot of American English and British English phrases interchangeably; they're just perfect synonyms to me, and allow me to speak with more variety.
Been on this last year on a day trip to Genoa. Really fantastic, and the merger/transfer point between horizontal to vertical is amazing engineering! Worth seeking out, and the castle district at the top is fun to walk around in. Also, make sure to see the Maritime Museum....state of the art museum about the ship building history of the city. On the top floor is an area dedicated to the Italian emigrants to North and South America with immersive experiences and computer databases to see if your family went thru Genoa.
I was in Rome last year and the house I stayed in had this really cool old elevator. It had tiny little wooden doors, and all these little levers and latches and catches, and those metal retracting gates outside the doors.
I spent a lot of time just going up and down in it, and felt like I was in a 1950s spy movie or something. It was all clangy and mechanical, and you could see all the pulleys and wires around it. It looked to be a few hundred years old, but it was in great condition.
Really fun!
I'm from Genoa and i love this video. I take this elevator quite often ahaha
Belin
I’ve moved here to Genoa about 6 months ago and I still haven’t gone there, I know the entrance is at Balbi (I think) but I’m way too lazy to go
Semmu de zena
Belin, sti foresti
@@thef1dude501 Oh come on, just try it. And while you're in Castello de Albertis, walk over to Castelletto - you won't regret it.
Black Mesa Transit System anyone?
+Fluffy Destroyer yup
Made me think of it as well indeed :D
The Aperture Science way of transport is much faster... :P
+Fluffy Destroyer im playing half-life 2 right now. is that close enough to be an amazing coincidence? :D
+Fluffy Destroyer Yes. Definitely. Was thinking about it the whole time xD
The name is:
Ascsensore - Lift (Elevator for y’all americans)
Castello D’Albertis - The name of the Castle in the mountain
Montegalletto - The name of the mountain
Just a note people, the lift isn’t just for the castle. The castle just so happens to be at the top of this mountain. It’s mainly used for access to this part of the city in Catelletto that are more difficult to get to by bus. There are several other lifts nearby
Very uplifting video. Sorry that was bad on so many levels.
One does wonder why engineering marvels like these never get featured on cable news...
+Peatry Mckendrick I once farted in an elevator, which was bad on _every_ level...
How could I live this many decades and have never heard that one before. Wow. I am stunned...Thanks
@@PowerChannel88 for some reason. I read that in an English accent which made the joke much better
trance*
Black Mesa's sure had their budget cut.
Yeah, this reminded me of Half-Life as well ;)
Nah, this is just an older compound. They let you tour the decommissioned compound to bring in extra funds.
it's the Willy wonka elevator!
The Wonkavator!
up and out!
No Thyssenkrupp is making the wonkavator
No, it can't even go sideways or slantways let alone squareways or longways.
More like the lift from the Ministry of Magic from Harry Potter.
I'm italian and i didn't know about this, but it is amazing! :D
+Antonello Contini gli italiani sanno solo lamentarsi!
+Antonello Contini la maggioranza degli italiani che vanno a genova passano tutto il giorno in coda all'acquario, forse anche i caruggi ma poi poc'altro anche se la città è piena di piccole sorprese come questa!
Antonello Contini Non sapevo nemmeno io di quest'ascensore... e vivo a Genova 😂
@@intersezioni Verissimo
I am elevator and i didn't know about this
thank you so much for actually putting in a time lapse
Necessity is the mother of invention. Laziness is its drunk uncle.
Yep.
the elevator gets in another elevator to take him up
"brilliant piece of engineering"
+sergio hidalgo c2.com/cgi/wiki?OneMoreLevelOfIndirection
+sergio hidalgo He probably calls it that because this thing is so old...
I don't understand why they don't left it with a crane tho... Especially if it's a crane with a static grabber, where the only moving parts are bolts that lock sideways motion. That ought to be much lighter than driving this thing onto a lift...
On the other hand, I don't know if the suspension of the lower cart could survive being lifted, or if the lower cart would have to be separated from the capsule.
The Great Steve The weight still creates a lot of stress on the pulley system.
Um yeah... am I the only person who thinks the most "brilliant" thing would have been to just have people get out of one and get into the other? It's like inventing a special astronaut pen that writes in space, despite pencils already existing.
ᒍᗩᗰᕮᔕ ᑭᗩᗯᔕOᑎ I guess you've never met a lazy person....
I've been following this guy for years and I found out just now that he's been in my city! Hope you enjoyed your stay on Genoa
Pure io ahah
Tom, there is an even weirder one in Berlin. It's a lift that goes up, sideways, and then down again, across some public transit rails. It's located at Betriebsbahnhof Rummelsburg, have a Google maps link: www.google.de/maps/place/52%C2%B029'37.2%22N+13%C2%B029'53.8%22E/@52.4936559,13.4977069,148m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d52.493655!4d13.498284
+Noah Hellman Well, that's on my list for next time I visit Berlin! I suspect I can only get away with one "odd lift" video a year though. :)
+Tom Scott No, we'll allow you three "odd lift" videos per year...
+QuantumFluxable I was going to ask what the strangest elevator in the world is (since this is just the strangest in Italy), so thank you for answering my question
+Tom Scott Just find a third unusual lift system. That'll keep it odd :P
I always wonder how I manage to live in Berlin and always have people talking about things they've seen in Berlin that I've never even heard of.
0:52 “It’s like a Star Trek turbolift […] I say that wearing a red shirt.” Saying that a split second after I had the same idea in mind is one of the reasons why I watch this channel.
Indeed. I was worried he couldn't make it.
the initial shots of the car in the tunnel reminded me very much of the original half life!
Woah, next time I go to Genova I'll look for this strange elevator! Never been on a funicular or something like that outside of my city (Turin), and this looks very peculiar
Sono genovese e sono stato a Torino la settimana scorsa, devo dire che è molto bella. Monte dei cappuccini ha una vista spettacolare
Nice video! I always took it when I worked in the neighbourhood of Castelletto... but I had never thought that it could be dangerous in any way, not being an engineer is good!!!
Huh. I've been working with a guy from Genoa lately. He barely speaks 5 words of English, I don't speak Italian, and yet he insists on speaking to me in Italian pretty much constantly.
Today he told me "Tu capisce tutti! Tutti!" and I was like "No. No I don't." and he was like "Si! Si! Tu capisce!"
We have fun.
+JustOneAsbesto was I the only one who read it with intonnation, and imagining a man with a moustache, wearing a wife beater, holding 3 fingers together as he speaks, while his left hand is raised on his seat back rest?
Donnie Well, not everyone imagines stereotypes. Frankly, it’s boring to think so.
Yess Donnie you have forgot that after we have a shower using tomato souce instead of soap
I would subscribe to an 'Elevators of the World's channel. It would be .. uplifting.
Ba dum tiss
Something about that idea just brings me down
You should look for 'The Elevator channel' here on TH-cam, then
I thought that 'The Elevator Channel' would just be boring music, but yeah its really about elevators.
eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I rode this today! It was quite fun. And check out the castle too, it's incredibly bizarre but interesting, the private collation of a late 19th-early 20th century explorer.
There's another strange funicular in the region of South Tyrol, it was used to move marble blocks from a quarry to the processing plant below. It had a platform with narrow gauge tracks in order to carry railcars up and down the mountain
Very Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
My cousins actually live in a neighbouring city and I've been there multiple times. I actually screamed Marco when I was there and could hear the ghost of Marco Polo respond with: Polo hashshshshs
Ahah di dove sono? Arenzano?
This elevator has haunted my dreams for many years, and I didn't know it existed until just now.
An elevator that can shift from riding left to right to up and down that’s cool!
You should visit the Opicina Tramway in Trieste, Italy. It's a hybrid tram and funicular.
Roald Dahl Fans: “Hey, I’ve seen this before!”
Genoa: “What do you mean? It’s brand new!”
I'm glad to see we have captions in Spanish, Spanish (Spain), and Spanish (Latin America).
yeah it's a big programmer achievement to allow for all these three languages at once!
Ya gotta account for all those dialects! :P
Just went on this today, very cool! Thanks for the heads up, Tom.
Tom, have you got any list of those amazing places you visit.
I'm hoping to make a trip to Europe, in the next few months.
Thanks! Great video, as always.
I love your videos. Please make more!
Not exactly how the tower of terror works, it doesn't have cable, the vehicle drives itself around.
+Spirit Of The Holidays Yep: I did wonder whether to include that technicality in my script, but decided it was easier to let it pass by :)
+Tom Scott yea lol, I'm just a Disney geek. Love your videos by the way :D
+Tom Scott: It's a pretty good comparison. The concept is the same even if the exact implementation differs slightly. :)
+Spirit Of The Holidays what exactly is the Disney tower of terror?
Because the Tower of Terror I'm familiar with sounds completely different...
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+Jim Cullen: It's a Twilight Zone-themed accelerated drop ride at several Disney parks: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_Tower_of_Terror
“One stormy night long ago, five people stepped through the door of an elevator and into a nightmare. That door is opening once again and this time, it’s opening for you.” _Rod Serling (voiced by Mark Silverman)
I was born and lived in genoa for 20 years and had no idea about this stuff
It is elevator as in Otis Elevator, the inventor of the first elevator that protected you if a cable broke, and Otis was 'sooooooo' North American! Good job Tom! Fascinating vid and thanks for all your work bring us these wonderful nuggets of knowledge!
I enjoy this set of videos a lot.
There are quite a few of these in Genova. The one at Quezzi is part Inclinator.
I've been on the tower of terror, so Thankyou Tom by using that comparison you've ensured I'm never gonna try this elevator!! 🤣🤣
Thanks engineering minds! I'm pretty fascinated by that one that seems to have been designed to resemble a moving set of stairs too.
....and then along comes the TyssenKrupp MULTI
@Tom Scott I’m genovise and I did actually know this! Thanks for making me visit my city with another eye!
E perchè ti sto scrivendo in inglese se siamo entrambi italiani?
That is by far the most interesting elevator system I've seen!
I’ve been dreaming of horizontal lifts for years and now I realise they actually exist!
those are usually called trains ( i know what you actually mean )
Reminds me of Half-Life.
I have to visit this place. The lift is amazing and I have a possibly excessive love of funicular railways. The whole place seems to be absolutely adorable. To me, anyway.
Fascinating! I'm always interested in stuff like this.
Thanks for showing the whole thing.
That is COOL! Years ago, I actually had a dream of an elevator that was capable of going horizontally, too. That was different! I guess I could call this an X-Y elevator, for you are moving in both the X and Y axes.
why do you have my name wtf
@Ng John truly
because our parents where not very original when naming you
@@catnium Our?
Why do you have his name?
Whaaaaat, I've always watched your videos and now TH-cam recommended this one which is the elevator that lead to my home 😅
Where do you learn about these interesting places/structures/ideas, Tom? I envy your life every time I watch one of your vids!
Thanks Tom!
Geweldig ! Lijkt me heel vreemd daarin te zitten.
such a good video. nice work.
AMAZINGLY brilliant use of dual tech
We need these in California and Nevada for mountain ranges.
amazing fade out on end!
Really enjoying this new series Tom - you're really getting to some incredible places! On an unrelated note, I spotted you at "Now Play This" a few weeks ago in London; were you making a video that day or just visiting?
Added to my bucket list
Grazie Luca per i sottotitoli
Divertical Roller Coaster at Mirabilandia haves similar elevator system （but trailed by water during horizon section）
great edit at the end. vertical elevation to sound fade to Amazing Places screen
Would love to see you do a video about Velorails :)
Seeing it stopped before driving onto the elevator points out how important it is that it checks whether the platform is present. I wouldn't want to be in a train that drives itself into an open elevator shaft. I wonder what failsafes it has?
This is just Tom Scott backpacking around the world right?
Nice of him to make some videos while he enjoys himself.
I'm in the north of Italy right now too! I hope I run into Tom Scott! #dreams
just spent the day riding Genoa transport systems it is full of surprises.
I just happened to come across this elevator last autumn. It was amazing! I also tried a few others and some funicilars. They were all free last year. Not sure how it is now..😊
We remind you that from 1 January 2024 the vertical systems (elevators, funiculars and rack railways) are free every day of the week without time limits for all citizens residing in the Metropolitan City of Genoa. In case of control, an identity document certifying residence in one of the municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Genoa must be shown to the verification staff.
Interesting video.
Thanks.
I was going to comment "Tower of Terror, Tom!" but, to my surprise, it was actually cited haha
I salute you Evil_Hasenragout.
I am not German and cam not speak it, but I'm sure you made someone happy with the (probably) free work you put your own time into
the people who made this have a big brain
2:11 Looks like the Ending of Portal 2
Pretty straight foward design actually.
"and I say that wearing a red shirt" haha
"Welcome to back mesa"
I thought of the Tower of Terror before you mentioned it. Cool idea.
Was about to say it looks like a theme park ride, when you mentioned Disney :D
Tom, you need to visit the Dinorwig pumped storage power station AKA 'The Electric Mountain'. I read a story about that, sounds like it would be an interesting place to film one of these.
I'm over 3 years late, but there's a full-on funicular rail line in Haifa, Israel. You should check it out, Tom.
(Not an Israeli citizen, just happen to know about the funicular).
WILLY WONKA WAS REAL!
+Caleb Hubbard
GAH
You got that song stuck in my head again! And it's not even the correct source material!
The elevator's in the sequel!
...willy wonka, willy wonka, the amazing chocleteer. willy wonka, willy wonka, everybody give a cheer.
You'd think they would make the tunnel a little more decorative. A bit of colour at least
Are you kidding? You don't know the Genoese!
This is just like those dreams I had as a kid of elevators going in multiple directions in a single trip
Kinds disappointed you didn't compared it to Thunderbirds. Because that is the first thing that came to my mind when I saw it. Using strange and complicated infrastructure to go from A to B :p
I've seen it in my dreams didn't know these existed
Diesel Ducy is going to love this.
Looks more like something out of Myst than Star Trek, but even so, very cool :)