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After the trip to Genoa, I went to Rimini, on the other side of Italy, and visited the Italia in Miniatura theme park because it has a monorail. A simple loop around the park, with one station about as far from the entrance as it’s possible to get, it was a fun way to view the detailed scale models of famous Italian buildings below. But one thing caught my attention: a claim that this was Italy’s first electric monorail. Now, while the park was opened in 1970, the monorail wasn’t added until 2001 or so. This claim is somewhat dubious, when you consider that, not too far away, the Mirabilandia theme park had an electric monorail that operated between 1992 and 2019. Another theme park, Gardaland, has had an electric monorail since 1990.
So, what was the first electric monorail in Italy?
Well, Expo ’61 had an ALWEG monorail that was essentially the same as the one in Seattle.
The Turin monorail. Jean-Henri Manara, Wikimedia Commons, License CC BY-SA 2.0One of the stations still exists, but my trip to Genoa reminded me that this isn’t the first electric monorail in Italy by a long way.

The “Italian Colonial International Exhibition of Marine and Marine Hygiene” in 1914 had a quite impressive monorail, known as the “Telfer”, running along the seafront. A poster from the time describes it as a “Ferrovia Elletrica”, so definitely electric! After the exhibition closed, the monorail remained in use for a few years moving coal and goods around.
During my visit, a friend and I tried to trace the route, and see if anything remained. Unfortunately, the way was blocked by a small military base, but we did find the spot where a large arch had been smashed into a building to allow the monorail to go through the Stella Battery.

Roger Farnworth has written an excellent, copiously illustrated, article about the Telfer, so I will simply refer you there: Genoa – a Telfer
And that is, probably, the first electric monorail in Italy. The only earlier monorail I know about is a steam-powered, cable-hauled one that went up Mount Vesuvius.

#1910s #1960s #2000s #genoa #italy #monorail #rimini #steampunk #Turin

After the trip to Genoa, I went to Rimini, on the other side of Italy, and visited the Italia in Miniatura theme park because it has a monorail. A simple loop around the park, with one station about as far from the entrance as it’s possible to get, it was a fun way to view the detailed scale models of famous Italian buildings below. But one thing caught my attention: a claim that this was Italy’s first electric monorail. Now, while the park was opened in 1970, the monorail wasn’t added until 2001 or so. This claim is somewhat dubious, when you consider that, not too far away, the Mirabilandia theme park had an electric monorail that operated between 1992 and 2019. Another theme park, Gardaland, has had an electric monorail since 1990.
So, what was the first electric monorail in Italy?
Well, Expo ’61 had an ALWEG monorail that was essentially the same as the one in Seattle.
The Turin monorail. Jean-Henri Manara, Wikimedia Commons, License CC BY-SA 2.0One of the stations still exists, but my trip to Genoa reminded me that this isn’t the first electric monorail in Italy by a long way.

The “Italian Colonial International Exhibition of Marine and Marine Hygiene” in 1914 had a quite impressive monorail, known as the “Telfer”, running along the seafront. A poster from the time describes it as a “Ferrovia Elletrica”, so definitely electric! After the exhibition closed, the monorail remained in use for a few years moving coal and goods around.
During my visit, a friend and I tried to trace the route, and see if anything remained. Unfortunately, the way was blocked by a small military base, but we did find the spot where a large arch had been smashed into a building to allow the monorail to go through the Stella Battery.

Roger Farnworth has written an excellent, copiously illustrated, article about the Telfer, so I will simply refer you there: Genoa – a Telfer
And that is, probably, the first electric monorail in Italy. The only earlier monorail I know about is a steam-powered, cable-hauled one that went up Mount Vesuvius.

#1910s #1960s #2000s #genoa #italy #monorail #rimini #steampunk #Turin
«Grassroots unions across #Italy called for 24-hour #GeneralStrike in #solidarity w/ the people of #Gaza on Monday, citing reasons that included “inertia of #Italian & #EU govs” 2 address the #HumanitarianCrisis in the territory
From #Milan to #Palermo, Italians poured on 2 streets in @ least 75 municipalities across the country. In #Genoa & #Livorno, dockworkers blocked ports, citing concerns Italy was being used as a staging post for the transfer of arms to #Israel»
“As the Sumud Flotilla sails through the Mediterranean, Israel’s stance has been swift, threatening to label its crew, from more than 44 countries, as terrorists and to arrest and imprison them…Italian dockworkers in the port of Genoa have warned that if they lose contact with the flotilla for even 20 minutes, they will block the departure of 14,000 containers of merchandise to Israel.”
#flotilla #genoa
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/09/04/sumud-flotilla-heads-to-gaza-to-break-the-blockade-and-stop-the-genocide/
“As the Sumud Flotilla sails through the Mediterranean, Israel’s stance has been swift, threatening to label its crew, from more than 44 countries, as terrorists and to arrest and imprison them…Italian dockworkers in the port of Genoa have warned that if they lose contact with the flotilla for even 20 minutes, they will block the departure of 14,000 containers of merchandise to Israel.”
#flotilla #genoa
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/09/04/sumud-flotilla-heads-to-gaza-to-break-the-blockade-and-stop-the-genocide/
Els estibadors de #Genoa han advertit que, si res els passa a la #flotilla, els contenidors procedents d'#Israel quedaran sense descarregar dels vaixells, no sols a Gènova, a tot el món, i tenen l'organització per fer-ho.
Així sí, combinant mesures de pressió, se'n poden sortir.
Més enllà del conflicte a #Gasa, ensenyaria el camí per futures accions i formes d'actuar davant la inoperància dels governs.
#SuportMutu
Els estibadors de #Genoa han advertit que, si res els passa a la #flotilla, els contenidors procedents d'#Israel quedaran sense descarregar dels vaixells, no sols a Gènova, a tot el món, i tenen l'organització per fer-ho.
Així sí, combinant mesures de pressió, se'n poden sortir.
Més enllà del conflicte a #Gasa, ensenyaria el camí per futures accions i formes d'actuar davant la inoperància dels governs.
#SuportMutu
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