Katun (roller coaster)
Katun is an inverted roller coaster at the Mirabilandia amusement park, Savio, outside Ravenna, Italy. It is the longest inverted roller coaster in Europe. The coaster has six inversions, a track length of 3,937 feet, a top speed of 65 mph, and a height of 164 feet, making it the fourth tallest complete circuit inverted coaster in the world.
Ride experience
The arrangement of the track is comparable to Raptor at Cedar Point, but with larger elements. After departing the station, the train turns left on a carousel onto the 164-foot lift hill. The train swings to the left after rising the top of the lift hill and descends 147 feet into a vertical loop. The train continues to travel upwards and downwards into a highly banked speed curve to the right, which is followed by a zero-g roll. Immediately as the train exits the bend, it passes through a cobra roll, then an immense upward helix to the right, and finally the mid-course brake run. Following that, the train plunges into a corkscrew that travels into a tunnel after completing the mid-course brake run. After traversing a low to the ground helix and another corkscrew, the train leaves the tunnel and comes to a halt on its final brake run.Ride elements
- Vertical loop
- Zero G roll
- Cobra roll
- Two corkscrews after the block brake
Theme
Katun has an ancient Mayan ruin theme. The two "Stargates" that riders travel through are immediately after they exit the station and right before they approach their final brake run.A "Katun" is 7200 days, which is slightly less than 20 years in the Maya calendar.