It constitutes the continuation of the Sant'Anna funicular, linking Corso Magenta with via Antonio Crocco.

[1] The elevator can be reached from Corso Magenta through a pedestrian tunnel, from which it also possible to reach a small private elevator connecting the tunnel to the Antica Farmacia Sant'Anna, the ancient and still operating pharmacy of the Sant'Anna Convent.

In 2007, it underwent a complete maintenance review and the substitution of the old cars with modern ones.

[1] The construction of the elevator started in 1929 and was commissioned to Officine Meccaniche Stigler [it] by Istituto Edile Immobiliare Genovese, the land developer which had undertaken the urbanization of via Antonio Crocco and salita Santa Maria della Sanità.

In 1966 the accountability passed to the Municipal transport company AMT Genova, which renovated the elevator in 1982, 1989 and 2007.