Santorini cable car, Aerial tramway in Fira, Greece.

The Santorini cable car is an aerial tramway in Fira, Greece, linking the old port at the base of the caldera cliff to the town center above. The cabins travel along the near-vertical rock face, with open views over the caldera and the sea on one side.

Shipowner Evangelos Nomikos initiated the project through the Loula & Evangelos Nomikos Foundation in 1979; construction ran from 1980 to 1982. It replaced the climb of roughly 600 steps or a mule ride up the caldera cliff. The lift is owned by the Municipality of Thera, and ticket revenue is shared among Santorini's 14 communities, with part allocated to the traditional mule drivers.

The cable car links the old port at the base of the cliff to the town of Fira perched at the top, giving riders a direct view of the steep path below where mule drivers still work today. Both ways of going up and down the cliff exist side by side, and visitors can choose between them.

The cable car can be boarded from the old port at the bottom or from the edge of Fira at the top, and both stations are easy to find on foot. Going early in the morning or later in the afternoon tends to mean shorter lines, especially when cruise ships are in port.

The 1982 system was built by the Austrian firm Doppelmayr to Austrian safety standards, and each of its six-passenger gondolas is rated for a capacity of 1,200 people per hour in both directions combined. The climb it replaces is roughly 600 steps, a walk of one to one and a half hours.