Barcelona Central Post Office - Correos telegraph building

About Barcelona Central Post Office - Correos telegraph building

Passeig de Colom is the broad street in front of Port Vell running from the Columbus monument towards Parc de la Ciutadella, has a series of elegant 19th and 20th century buildings.

Notable is the Central Post Office, Correus i Telegrafs, in Plaza d'Antonio López (recently renamed plaça de Correos in 2021) which was designed by Josep Goday i Casals and Jaume Torres i Grau in 1926 and built between 1914 and 1928 following a mixture of Catalan Modernism and Noucentism styles.

The post office overlooks Barcelona Port Vell and has a façade comprising four columns at the top of a staircase to the three entrance doors, above which are 4 statues and a large coat of arms.

The front of the building is Barcelona's main post office with a grand customer hall and lobby for posting letters and parcels. The back of the building is today a large mail sorting office and headquarters building for the Spanish postal service.

The customer hall is naturally illuminated by sunlight filtering through a central glass dome. The ceiling, arches and upper parts of the walls are decorated with classical frescoes by artists Josep Galí, Francesc Labarta, Josep Obiols and Francesc Canyelles. One of the paintings features the Greek god Hermes, son of Zeus and messenger of the Gods.

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