Palacio Postal

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  • Address
    Tacuba 1, Centro Histórico
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  • Phone
    5521 1408
  • Transport
    underground rail: Bellas Artes

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Lonely Planet review

More than just Mexico City's central post office, this early-20th-century palace is an architectural stunner. Across Eje Central from the Palacio de Bellas Artes, it was designed in Italian renaissance style by that structure's original architect, Adamo Boari. The beige stone facade features baroque columns and carved filigree around the windows; inside, the bronze railings on the monumental staircase were cast in Florence.

Philatelists can ogle the rare Mexican stamps in the first-floor postal museum, while even noncollectors might enjoy the mural depicting a Tarascan farmer, that's a mosaic of more than 48,234 stamps postmarked between 1890 and 1934.