Magna Plaza
Neo-Gothic former post office turned shopping mall, with soaring galleries, a glass dome, and pear-crowned towers.
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This guide to Magna Plaza in Amsterdam begins in February 1991, when builders working in the city's old main post office, just behind the Royal Palace, opened up a beam. It covers the architect Cornelis Peters, who designed the building in the 1890s, and why Amsterdammers nicknamed it Pear Castle. You'll also hear how the postal service came to sell it in 1987. Start outside, looking up at the towers and dormers.
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