dogana
/də(ʊ)ˈɡɑːnə/noun
(In Italy) a custom house.He found himself competing with the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation – which owns the famous museum nearby – to acquire the abandoned Dogana....
- The Dogana at Foggia was intended to regulate the transference of large flocks of sheep from the Abruzzi mountains to set pasture lands on the Adriatic plains.
- Imports by land into Rome were processed through the dogana next to Sant'Eustachio.
Origin
Italian, from Arabic dīwān (compare with divan).