Torino boasts many historical places, but not everyone knows that, in Via Corte d'Appello 4, there is also a hotel that boasts 300 years of history: the Hotel Dogana Vecchia.
The first information on this lodge date back to 1700. At the time the hotel was called "Osteria della Dogana Nova" and gave hospitality to travellers in transit for business, work, study or cultural events related to the role of Torino as capital of the Duchy of Savoy and of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
The facility hosted many famous personalities. From Napoleon Bonaparte to Giuseppe Verdi, who was staying here when he had to meet members of the Savoy family in the city.
But perhaps its most famous customer is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Together with his father, in 1771, arriving from Milan in the wake of the triumph obtained at the Teatro Ducale with his opera "Mitridate King of Pontus", he was guest of the inn for two weeks.
