Albergo Posta

The Albergo Posta is a building by Giuseppe Terragni, the architect of Como's Rationalism.

It stands where Piazza Volta meets Via Garibaldi, in the centre of Como, and is one of the first works Terragni completed in the city, before the Casa del Fascio and the Asilo Sant'Elia. The design dates from 1930 and had to be put to the municipal commissions several times; the building went up in the first half of the 1930s. Restored in 2013, it has been a hotel again since 2014, under the name Posta Design Hotel. The front still carries the words “Albergo Posta” and two lamps designed by Terragni, and the staircase up to the rooms is the original one.