Besides the caravan route, the goods came into the Lazarettos by sea, generally from Ottoman and Venetian ports in the east of the Mediterranean, as well as Italian ports. The facchini would unload the goods from the ship, transport them to the walls under the Lazarettos, and bring them up the stairs into the courtyards.

The stairs were most likely built at the same time as the Lazarettos. In two and a half centuries, all kinds of goods were transported over them, from delicacies such as Lake Scutari caviar, Cyprus wines, North African dates, to gorgeous, shining Italian fabrics.

A barred wooden gate stood at the top of the steps.

To the right side of the steps was a slaughterhouse, perfectly situated. Across from the slaughterhouse and the western part of the Lazarettos stood Tabor, a place where the caravans stopped, and which received lots of cattle for the needs of the City and its suburbs.