Poste Office Palace

During the 30’s, thanks to architect Angiolo Mazzoni, one of those who signed the Manifesto of the Futurist Aerial Architecture, the futurist avant-garde bound to the history of the Central Post Office.

Mazzoni designed and constructed important buildings, including the Central Post Office Building of La Spezia, opened on 12 November, 1933, in the presence of the Ministry of Communications of that time, Costanzo Ciano. The Palazzo delle Poste, which today still keeps its functions as main post office, is a building of great artistic value.

The inside of the building features a contrast between the simplicity of exposed bricks and multicolored marbles (including the Portoro marble, from the Palmaria island). On the side of the building on Via D’Azeglio, close to the stairway leading up to Via XX Settembre, a large rectangular-shaped fountain is placed on the corner with Via del Torretto and used to collect the water from four jets located above. During World War II, the fountain was the entrance of an air-raid shelter tunnel.

The mosaic of communications (land-, air-, and sea-based)
In the inner part of the Tower of the building, there is a mosaic dedicated to (land-, air-, and sea-based) communications by Enrico Prampolini and Fillia (pseudonym for Luigi Colombo) – an extraordinary example of futurist art, made of ceramic mosaic tiles of the Società Ligure Ceramiche Vaccari (literally, Vaccari Ligurian Society of Ceramics).