Atlas Tourist customs booth at Ponte Chiasso

In the 1930s, building began on the customs complex to deal with substantial tourist and commercial flows, this being the main southern gateway from Switzerland. The buildings, completed in several stages, include administrative functions and control of customs.
The two nations are respectively represented by the styles closest to the contemporary architectural currents: from late Larian rationalism, evident in the two wings in brick and travertine framing the central canopy, to the modular grid structure of the Swiss part built in the eighties .