Sierra Tonante, was a wooden roller coaster

Wooden roller coaster

A wooden roller coaster is most often classified as a roller coaster with laminated steel running rails overlaid upon a wooden track. Occasionally, the structure may be made out of a steel lattice or truss, but the ride remains classified as a wooden roller coaster due to the track design...

 at Mirabilandia

Mirabilandia (Italy)

Mirabilandia is an Italian amusement park, located at Savio, frazione of Ravenna, in Emilia-Romagna.It has an area of 30 hectares, with an additional waterworld area of 10 hectares, called Mirabilandia Beach...

, Savio

Savio

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 in Emilia-Romagna

Emilia-Romagna

Emilia–Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. The capital is Bologna; it has an area of and about 4.4 million inhabitants....

, Italy

Italy

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 whih operated between 1992 and 2007. It was design by William Cobb

William Cobb

This article is about the engineer. For other persons by this name, see William Cobb William L. "Bill" Cobb , was an American designer and engineer of roller coasters, as the founder and head of William Cobb & Associates...

 & Werner Stengel

Werner Stengel

Werner Stengel is a German roller coaster designer and engineer. Stengel is the founder of Stengel Engineering, also known as Ingenieur Büro Stengel GmbH ....

. 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. Sierra Tonante was replaced by i-Speed: A launched steel roller coaster

Steel roller coaster

A steel roller coaster is a roller coaster that is defined by having a track made of steel. Steel coasters have earned immense popularity in the past 50 years throughout the world...

 manufactured by Intamin AG.