Sierra Tonante

Sierra Tonante
Sierra Tonante
Mirabilandia
Location	Mirabilandia
Coordinates	44°20′10″N 12°15′43″E / 44.33611°N 12.26194°E
Status	Removed
Opening date	1992
Closing date	2007
General statistics
Type	Wood
Manufacturer	S.D.C.
Designer	William Cobb; Werner Stengel; Technopark[disambiguation needed]
Model	'T' shaped exploded twister with helix
Lift/launch system	Chain lift hill
Height	114.10 ft (34.78 m)
Length	3,280.10 ft (999.77 m)
Speed	62.1 mph (99.9 km/h)
Inversions	0
Duration	1:30 min
Capacity	1200 riders per hour
Acceleration	4
	Sierra Tonante at RCDB

Sierra Tonante, (Italian for "Thundering Mountain Range"), was a wooden roller coaster at Mirabilandia, Savio in Emilia-Romagna, Italy that operated between 1992 and 2007. It was designed by William Cobb & Werner Stengel. It was Europe's tallest, fastest and longest duration wooden roller coaster when it first opened in 1992.

Closure

The ride was shut down in 2007 and demolished in 2008. A new Italian government regulation was introduced in 2007 which requires stricter building specification on amusement park rides, including roller coasters. Mirabilandia's administration, after careful consultation with their engineers came to the conclusion that modifying the ride to meet these new regulation guidelines was too costly and that replacing it with a new ride would cost the same and have a greater financial return to the park.^[1] Sierra Tonante was replaced by i-Speed: A launched steel roller coaster manufactured by Intamin AG.

References

^ Canovi, Roberto. "Mirabilandia - 12-02-2008: Mirabilandia: farewell to Sierra Tonante; the reasons of the choice". parksmania.it. Retrieved 2008-06-22.

External links

http://www.mirabilandia.it/attrazioni_sierra_en.htm

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[closure-1] Canovi, Roberto. "Mirabilandia - 12-02-2008: Mirabilandia: farewell to Sierra Tonante; the reasons of the choice". parksmania.it. Retrieved 2008-06-22.

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