Piazza Minghetti

The area between Piazza Minghetti and Piazza Cavour became strategic for post-unity urban renewal, which provided space for the local and national offices of institutions that were crucial at the time, such as the prestigious buildings of the Bank of Italy, the Cassa di Risparmio and the Post Office.
Piazza Minghetti in particular is the result of the demolition of an entire block in 1893. This clearing operation had also become necessary to create space for Palazzo della Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna that Giuseppe Mengoni, the architect of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan, erected between 1868 and 1877. The square, inaugurated in 1896, was dedicated to the statesman Marco Minghetti.
The north side was initially to be the site for the University's Mineralogy Museum. However, given its strategic position, it was later decided that it should be allocated to the austere Post Office building, whose design began in 1903. The engineer Emilio Saffi (1861-1930) took charge of the work and completed it for the inauguration in 1911.
The building was conceived in a late Renaissance eclectic style, as was often the case at the time for institutional offices.

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