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Palazzo Delle Poste
Palazzo delle Poste may refer to the following buildings: * Palazzo delle Poste, Catania * Palazzo delle Poste, Grosseto *Palazzo delle Poste, Naples The ''Palazzo delle Poste'' (Italian: "Post Office Palace") is located in Piazza Matteotti in central Naples. It is an example of architecture completed during the fascist government of Benito Mussolini. Another such example is the nearby ' ... * Palazzo delle Poste, Palermo See also * * Post Office (other) {{disambiguation Architectural disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Delle Poste, Catania
The Palazzo delle Poste is a notable building, called a palace, but built for and still housing postal offices. It stands on the west corner of Via Etnea, #288, where it intersects with the start of the Giardino Bellini. The postal building is a neo-baroque architecture, baroque creation of the architect Francesco Fichera. Construction began in 1922 and were complete only in 1930. The three facades, along via Etnea, via Angelo Litrico, and via Sant'Euplio are similar. All contain a rusticated ground level set upon a base of dark lava stone. The ground floor is an row of arches, each with a keystone marked by a Grotesque (architecture), grotesque mask. The second floors have convex balconies framed by pilasters surmounted by a tympanum (architecture), tympanum with a broken pediment. Behind the balconies are tall glass doors with delicate frames. The decoration throughout is often playful and imaginative. At the northeast corner, some of the decorations are cornucopias, but others a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Delle Poste, Grosseto
The Palazzo delle Poste () is an administrative building which serves as the Poste Italiane headquarters in Grosseto, Tuscany. It was designed by architect Angiolo Mazzoni and completed in 1932. The building features an exterior in a monumental style, typical of the Fascist architecture, while the interior is characterized by a closer alignment with the modern principles of Italian rationalism. It also houses sculptures by Napoleone Martinuzzi and Domenico Ponzi. Location The building is situated in the suburb of Porta Nuova, outside the city walls, and is bordered by Via Roma and Viale Giacomo Matteotti, overlooking Piazza Fratelli Rosselli, formerly Piazza Umberto I, and commonly known as Piazza della Vasca. It serves as a key visual landmark aligned with Via Fallaci, leading into the historic center. The square features significant architecture from different periods and styles: the neo-classical Palazzo del Governo; Ludovico Quaroni's modern multi-purpose building from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Delle Poste, Naples
The ''Palazzo delle Poste'' (Italian: "Post Office Palace") is located in Piazza Matteotti in central Naples. It is an example of architecture completed during the fascist government of Benito Mussolini. Another such example is the nearby '' Palazzo della Casa del Mutilato'' and the adjacent Palazzo della Questura (Police Headquarters) on via Medina. Just north and across the street on via Monteoliveto is the 16th-century Palazzo Orsini di Gravina. To make way for the building, houses from the ''rione'' of San Giuseppe-Carità were demolished in 1930. Construction began in 1928 under Costanzo Ciano, head of the Ministry of Communications; when finally completed in 1936, it was inaugurated by the minister, Antonio Stefano Benni. The design was by the Bolognese architect Giuseppe Vaccaro, and was influenced by the Rationalist style of Italian architecture promoted by Marcello Piacentini. The architect Gino Franzi modified and completed the final building. The design incor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Delle Poste, Palermo
The Palazzo delle Poste or Palazzo Postale is a monumental government building, executed in the rationalist architectural style of the 1920s, originally intended as the mail and telegraph center, located on Via Roma #320, in the quarter of Castellamare in Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. The modern building is bordered on the north by the church of the Sant'Ignazio all'Olivella and the adjacent Regional Archeologic Museum, while Piazza San Domenico is a few blocks to the south. History The building was designed by the rationalist, and later fascist, government architect Angiolo Mazzoni in the early 1920s. Construction was begun on the structure in 1929 and the building was inaugurated in 1934 with the Italian government's communications minister Umberto Puppini in attendance. The Palermo flood occurred from February 21–23, 1931 while the building was being constructed and during that time a large crane which was being used to erect the post office collapsed onto a neigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post Office (other)
A post office is a facility that is part of a postal network. Post Office may also refer to several national postal services, including: * General Post Office, the former English and British postal service * Post Office Limited, retail post office company in the United Kingdom * United States Post Office Department, the former U.S. postal service * United States Postal Service, the present U.S. postal service * Canada Post, the present Canadian postal service It may also refer to: * St Paul's tube station, originally known as Post Office from its position near the GPO East * Post office (game), a kissing game played by boys and girls * ''The Post Office'' (play), a 1912 play by Rabindranath Tagore * ''Post Office'' (short story), a 1923 short story by Dhumketu * ''Post Office'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Charles Bukowski * The Post Office (painting), an 1819 painting by Edward Villiers Rippingille * "Post Office" (''2 Stupid Dogs''), an episode of ''2 Stupid Dogs'' See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |