Culture & Lifestyle

Letters from Calabria: Café Postino, Almonte

By Tom Carnegie

June 20, 2026

By Élan Magazine | Mississippi Mills

There is a building on Mill Street in Almonte that has always known how to receive people. Built in 1889 as the town's post office, it spent over a century as the place where Almonte sent and received its most important correspondence — news from away, letters from loved ones, the small but significant transactions of a community in conversation with the world. It still does that, in a way. It…