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a real customs post and anti-smuggling base Smuggling and smugglers have always exercised a certain fascination on the well-behaved middle-class. But it has also involved custom scholars, historians and economists since for decades smuggling has represented a way of making ends meet during hard times, especially in economically impoverished areas. It is therefore right that a museum be dedicated to this topic, in memory of difficult times and conditions, dangers, efforts and the cleverness displayed by both smugglers and border guards, these being specific features of the social relations that existed in Ticino in the last 100 years, until more or less, the early Seventies. The building that houses the Customs Museum is on the opposite side of lake from Lugano, in the area known as Cantine di Gandria are and may be reached by means of a short, suggestive boat trip; in fact, it is built directly on the lake, at the border between Italy and Switzerland, in an inaccessible area covered in thick vegetation. Free admission By boat from Lugano. Stop: Museo doganale or Cantine di Gandria |
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