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Palazzo delle Poste (Naples Post Office)
The building was constructed on the site where the San Giuseppe-Carità quarter once stood, demolished in the 1930s.

On the top floor of the building is the main headquarters of the Tucci newspaper archive, dedicated to Vincenzo Tucci, a journalist at Il Mattino (a Naples daily newspaper). The design of the building was launched in 1928 on the initiative of the then Minister of Communications, Costanzo Ciano, through a competition in which famous architects of the time took part. The actual construction was completed between 1933 and 1936, and the official inauguration took place on 30 September of that year, with Minister Antonio Stefano Benni in attendance.
The winning design was that of architect Giuseppe Vaccaro, originally from Bologna, who created a model in a historic and monumental style, similar to that of Marcello Piacentini. During the construction phase, architect Gino Franzi collaborated with Vaccaro to make some changes to the original design, transforming it into an example of rationalist and functional architecture.
During the construction of the building, the two architects had to deal with certain limitations imposed by the urban layout of the area, which greatly influenced their work: as a result, the building's floor plan turned out irregular and its height was determined by the presence of the nearby cloister of Monteoliveto. Furthermore, another architectural constraint was the presence of a Renaissance loggia incorporated into the building itself.
On 7 October 1943, just a few days after the Quattro Giornate di Napoli (Four Days of Naples), the Palazzo delle Comunicazioni was severely damaged by violent explosions in its western section, which caused the deaths of 30 people, injured 84 others, and inflicted extensive material damage. The Nazis, while withdrawing from the city as the Allies advanced from Salerno, had planted explosive devices in the building, intending to detonate them at a later time.
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