Postal Palace

Description

The Postal Palace Office is one of the "must see" places in Mexico City. It is close to the Latin american Tower and the Palacio de Bellas Artes, so you can travel by Metro (for $ 5 Mexican pesos fee) and visit those three places in a single day! The Postal Office has a unique style, a Spanish Renaissance, or Rococo, style, with a little bit of Gothic influence too. When you will see the building it will remind you about European architecture because it has marble ornaments and cantera stone.

The outside is beautifully decorated with stone windows and decorative iron pieces; some parts are made of solid gold! The building also has a Naval History Museum and old elevators which out of service, but are still preserved for aesthetic purposes. On Christmas, you can see tons of kids going to the Postal Office to deliver their cards to "Santa Claus", it is a beautiful tradition. The entrance is totally free. Make sure you observe that the buildings nearby are not perfectly straight; most are kind of lopsided, because of the unstable cimentations of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan.