Oficina de Correos

This guide to the Oficina de Correos in Valencia opens with a decades-old tradition: letters dropped into its magic mailboxes before midnight on January fifth are said to reach the Three Kings. It traces the grand Palacio de Correos y Telegrafos, built between 1915 and 1922 by architect Miguel Angel Navarro Perez, whose facade sculptures represent the five continents and the reach of the postal service. Inside, an Ionic oval hall holds a stained-glass dome of three hundred seventy panels by the Maumejean brothers, each bearing a Spanish province's coat of arms around Valencia's shield. Look up as you enter the hall to take in the full spread of the dome before you focus on any single panel.