In the Historical Centre of Mexico City, the Post
Office Palace (Palacio de Correos) is one the most brilliant examples of the eclectic
architecture of the first years of the 20th Century in the city. It is a great place to buy your stamps for postcards back home.
The
history of this emblematic building began at the end of the 19th century when
Porfirio Diaz, the president of Mexico at that time entrusted the project
of a new post office building to the Italian architect Adamo Boari and to the
Mexican engineer Gonzalo Garita y Frontera. The architect designed two
glass covered courtyards, one for the administration offices, and other for the
reception and delivering of packages. For the construction was used a Chicago
type laying foundations which consists of steel beams on which the upper
metallic structure stands.
The construction of the building began on September
14th 1902 and it took five
years to be completed in 1907.
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