{"id":74606,"date":"2026-05-30T10:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/74606\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:08:55","slug":"swiss-ski-resort-opens-tower-at-3020-metres-above-sea-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/74606\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss ski resort opens tower at 3,020 metres above sea level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f6924c6ef2012553b84459e944ec4202d23ee3ac-91496043.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"tower in ski resort\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                The tower is close to the summit of the Titlis mountain in canton Obwalden.            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        On Friday, the Engelberg ski area in canton Obwalden unveiled the conversion of an antenna tower into a visitor attraction featuring a restaurant and shop. At an altitude of 3,020m, it marks a European record.\n<\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        May 30, 2026 &#8211; 11:23\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/about-us\/swissinfo-ch-newsletter_newsletter-subscription\/42152624?utm_source=multiple&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=highlights-front_en&amp;utm_content=o&amp;utm_term=wpblock_teaser-card-carousel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After three years\u2019 work, the Titlis Tower is the highest habitable tower on the continent. The construction, dating from the 1980s, was previously used as a telecoms transmission tower. It is located close to a glacier and at the top of the highest ski lift in the area, a few hundred metres from the summit of the Titlis mountain.<\/p>\n<p>The tower will charge CHF19 ($24.30) to access a platform that can hold up to 500 people. There are also two glazed luxury containers housing a 125-seat restaurant run by an award-winning chef, and a boutique store for a luxury watch brand. It is also equipped with new staircases and lifts. At a cost of CHF150 million, the whole project was designed by the Herzog &amp; de Meuron architects.<\/p>\n<p>There will not be an inauguration celebration for the tower, out of respect for the victim of a fatal ski lift accident on March 18 in the Engelberg ski area. The tower will be publicly open from Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7c6a52d68971e71f1548fe252c8339144a612fc7-91119242.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"OW: gondola cabin falls in Engelberg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        One dead after gondola cabin plunges in Swiss resort of Engelberg    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Mar 18, 2026                    <\/p>\n<p>                A 61-year-old woman died in a cable car accident in the Engelberg-Titlis ski resort in central Switzerland after a cabin crashed down a snowy mountainside on Wednesday.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/various\/one-dead-after-gondola-cabin-plunges-in-swiss-resort-of-engelberg\/91119330\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: One dead after gondola cabin plunges in Swiss resort of Engelberg<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Titlis skilift company also plans to build a new arrival station by 2029 to replace the existing one at the foot of the tower. <\/p>\n<p>The project has led to an exchange of 1500 m2 of land between cantons Obwalden and Bern. The planned infrastructure will therefore be located solely on Obwalden\u2019s territory.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from French by AI\/dos<\/p>\n<p>                How we work            <\/p>\n<p>We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. A journalist then reviews the translation for clarity and accuracy before publication.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. 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