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Palazzo delle Poste – Trieste

Poste Italiane, Piazza Vittorio Veneto, Trieste, TS, Italia

Palazzo delle Poste – Trieste

Poste Italiane, Piazza Vittorio Veneto, Trieste, TS, Italia

Description

Work on the new Palazzo delle Poste in Trieste by architect Friedrich Setz of Vienna’s Imperial Ministry of Commerce began in October 1890 and was concluded in 4 years. It is today the only remaining example of Middle European architecture among the monumental Post Office buildings.
Present-day piazza Vittorio Veneto was once the site of the customs offices, the salt works and the sea. To provide the building with solid, secure foundations, 5,000 wooden posts were pegged, and a “uniformly level base” was placed upon them. Friedrich Setz was inspired by Vienna’s Justizpalast, this seems almost a perfect copy.
Typical of Austrian buildings of the time, it has an eclectic neo-Renaissance style. The central hall on the ground floor, with monumental staircase at the back, features a glass roof “with steel girders and the transparent part in crystal”. To the right of the spacious atrium is the Museo Postale e Telegrafico della Mitteleuropa, which conserves artefacts and images documenting the evolution of the postal service from the mid-1800s to the present-day. These include a reproduction of a late 1800s Post Office with furnishings and equipment belonging to the Royal Hungarian Post.
The building has been restored several times. The most significant of these restorations took place after WWII to repair serious bomb damage; other important interventions took place in 2008 and 2009.
There are two cherubs on the tympanums of the side entrances in via Milano and via Galatti: one, an angel, plays a trumpet and holds the postman’s whip while the other wears an Austro-Hungarian postman’s cap and carries a half open post bag, immortalised as he delivers two letters. Time has preserved him as he was.

Data sheet

Water
Yes
Electricity
Yes
Access
Tarmac road
Print sheet

Contacts

Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission
Piazza Duca degli Abruzzi 3 — 34132 Trieste
Phone: +39 040 3720142
Email: filmcommission@promoturismo.fvg.it

Film commission

Incentives available for this location

All fundings for this location
Region Friuli Venezia Giulia
Facilities Friuli-Venezia Giulia
National
Tax Credits for Videogame Production Companies — Law n° 220/2016 (art. 15)
National
Automatic contributions - Law no. 220/2016
National
Tax Credits for Production Companies — Law n° 220/2016 (art. 15)
National
Tax Credits for Distribution Companies — Law n° 220/2016 (art. 16)
National
Tax Credits for attracting investments in film and audiovisual products to Italy — Law n° 220/2016 (article 19)
National
Selective contributions for writing of screenplays — Law n° 220/2016
National
Selective contributions for development — Law n° 220/2016
National
Selective contributions for production — Law n° 220/2016
National
Call relative to selective grants for the production of feature-length films of special artistic quality - Articles 26 and 27 of Law No. 220 (2016) - 2024
National
Film Distribution Fund
National
International Exporters Fund – Funds for Internationalisation
National
Fund for the development of film co-productions between Italy and the Baltic States
National
Selective contributions for film with a minority co-production or participation in international partnership - Year 2024
Transnational
TV and Online Content - CREA-MEDIA-2025
Transnational
Films on the Move - CREA-MEDIA-2024
Transnational
Media 360° — CREA-MEDIA-2025
Transnational
Video Games and Immersive Content Development - CREA-MEDIA-2024
Transnational
European Slate Development — CREA-MEDIA-2025

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Some works made in this location

All works
The Red Door
Tv series - 3 seasons - 32 episodes
Directed by: Carmine Elia

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