The new Vatican mobile post office in St. Peter’s Square was inaugurated today. The work was commissioned by Poste Italiane, which donated the new post office to the Governorate. The new office opens its doors a few days before the start of the 2025 Jubilee and will be at the service of citizens, pilgrims and visitors who will arrive in Rome on the occasion of the Holy Year that will open on 24 December.
The inauguration
The ribbon was cut by Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, President of the Governorate of Vatican City State; the General Manager of Poste Italiane, Giuseppe Lasco; Sr. Raffaella Petrini, Secretary General of the Governorate, and the lawyer Giuseppe Puglisi-Alibrandi, Deputy Secretary General, the engineer Salvatore Farina, Director of the Directorate of Infrastructures and Services, the engineer Antonino Intersimone, Director of the Directorate of Telecommunications and Information Systems, the engineer Luigi Salimbeni, Deputy Director of the same Directorate, and Fr. Felice Bruno, F.D.P., Head of the Office of the Poste e Filatelia Service.
Spirit of service
“The new post office was built in St. Peter’s Square, a gem of art and a universal symbol of Christianity. It is the expression of Poste Italiane’s traditional spirit of service and confirms the Group’s sense of closeness and attention to the whole community, both on the occasion of events of exceptional importance, such as the Holy Year, and in everyday life – commented the General Manager of Poste Italiane, Giuseppe Lasco -. We are really proud to have made available to tourists and the entire Christian community a work that testifies to the heartfelt participation of Poste Italiane in an event of great significance for humanity such as the Jubilee”.
The Structure
In addition to traditional postal services, the Vatican mobile post office offers a space dedicated to philately, with exclusive products from Poste Italiane and Poste Vaticane. Completely free of architectural barriers, the structure is accessible to all. The office, located in the Charlemagne Wing of the colonnade, has the shape of a 16-sided polygon with glass walls and stands out for the functional distribution of spaces and for the comfort ensured to the public who can have a comfortable central area for waiting, and to the operators arranged on three workstations. The choice of materials with low environmental impact, mainly wood and glass, expresses respect for the solemnity of the place and for the principles of lightness and environmental sustainability that are typical of Poste Italiane. The project is by AMDL CIRCLE and Michele De Lucchi.
In the heart of the Square
The work, carried out in just two months, has a circular window, and also offers those in the office a full view of the square, the churchyard, the basilica and the colonnade: the stop in the post office therefore becomes an opportunity to fully appreciate the majesty, beauty and spirituality of the place, also offering everyone an experience of artistic and religious contemplation.
