Dogana Veneta

The Dogana building is next to the small church of S. Nicolò near the harbor

Dogana Veneta was already in the tenth century with the port used for the docking of goods, in the fourteenth century as a shelter for ships and as an arsenal, the port was then smaller input and there were two towers from which went the walls of protection of the port that went to join the castle. In the seventeenth century the port was expanded and the building was used as a customs control of goods in transit between Lombardy, Trentino and the Republic of Venice, giving Lazise a remarkable prosperity, the ships had to pass next to the large porch before having access to the port. Following the freight traffic on the lake fell because of the plague of 1630, the fall of the Venetian Republic, the advent of the French and the building was initially used for cotton spinning factory, then beam house and ultimately to conference room. And representative building for the community.