Palazzo delle Poste, Palermo

The Palazzo delle Poste or Palazzo Postale is a monumental government building, executed in the stripped classicism architectural style of the 1920s, originally intended as the mail and telegraph center, located on Via Roma #320, in the quarter of Castellamare in Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy.

The modern building is bordered on the north by the church of the Sant'Ignazio all'Olivella and the adjacent Regional Archeologic Museum, while Piazza San Domenico is a few blocks to the south.

Construction was begun on the structure in 1929 and the building was inaugurated in 1934 with the Italian government's communications minister Umberto Puppini in attendance.

Most striking perhaps is the conference room, with works by the Futurist painter Benedetta Cappa,[5] Called Sintesi delle Comunicazioni (Synthesis of Communication) the five murals which measure 6½ ft (2 m) by 10 ft (3.05 m), were painted by Cappa in 1933 and 1934 in tempera and encaustic (a wax process) on canvas and depict land, sea, air, and telegraphic and radio communications.

[6] As well as trying to convey the complexity of the Futurist vision, which sought to break free of the burden of history and propel Italy into the future, at the same time they were designed to invoke resonances with the frescoes of ancient Pompeii.