POSTAL PALACE IN MEXICO CITY
Golden jewel of 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 the first years of the XXth Century in the city. The history of this emblematic building began at the end of the XIXth 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 new building must have all the advances of that time that allow to maintain an appropriate service to face the fast growing commerce relations of Mexico with the foreign al also to fulfill the national needs of communication. 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 consisted in a steel beams graticule on wich the uppe...