The houses were built one behind the other thus engendering perpendicular streets and allowing to pull the boats in front of the fishermen’s houses.
Over the years the economy of the village has gradually changed and today tourism is the main industry; there are a few professionals in the field but lake fish still forms part of the best traditional dishes.
Lake Garda offers a huge range of fish species. First of all the refined carp (carpione) that was already known during the Middle Ages, although today it is threatened with extinction.
Together with the carp, the main species living and caught in the lake are: trout, lavaret, char, lake sardine, alburnus alborella (also known as àola), eel, tench, chub and pike.