A long staircase

When suddenly breaks into your home elevator during the ascent, which only thoughts come to mind. One of them became a mystery, but what looks like the world's longest staircase and where it is located. The answer is a little bit surprised.

The fact that the longest staircase in the world is a ladder funicular Niesenbahn, allowing to climb to the top of Mount Niesen, in the Swiss Alps.






Funicular first started work more than a hundred years ago. To be precise, in 1910.



The length of the line is exactly 3500 meters. On this length is 11674 steps. That's just for tourists climbing is possible here only once a year. At all other times, the steps have the right to go up and down only workers engaged in repairing the cable car line. Himself funicular runs from April to November. Cabs depart every half hour interval from 8:00 to 17:00.