Ancient dock

Via del Marinaio (previously “del Fornello”, due to the presence of a community boiler for boiling fishing nets, today Casabella Restaurant) leads to the western front towards the coast between Stresa and Baveno, which is more protected from the wind and wave motion, and where an ancient arched dock built with massive boulders – which is today in a serious state of decay and surmounted by an abandoned concrete and iron pier once used by Navigazione Lago Maggiore – protected a harbor for the burchielli, presumably in line with the original western entries to the church.