The Oropa cable car is one of the first examples of ski lifts built in Italy. In 1926 it integrated a set of installations at the service of tourism destined for the Sanctuary of Oropa, including the section of the Biella-Oropa tramway. It is located within the Special Nature Reserve of the Sacro Monte di Oropa, behind the New Basilica of the Sanctuary of Oropa and leads from a downstream altitude of 1335 meters to an upstream altitude of 1900 meters. The Oropa cable cars have always been a reference point for mountain tourism in the Biella area, a means of transport that protects the nature of the entire valley and allows for the development of a sustainable tourism movement, mainly linked to the outdoors. The cableway transport of the Oropa cableways is sustainable: it is in fact an ecological mode of transport, which allows anyone to have easy access to a unique mountain environment.
The Foundation organizes awareness-raising activities such as plogging, an event that invites citizens to take care of the environment by eliminating the waste found in the areas around the waterways, to prevent it from being transported to the plains.
