Webster Dictionary (5.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition: Pedestal (noun) the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column. Pedestal (noun)
The Plaza de Cibeles is the busiest district in Madrid because it houses one of the largest and tallest post offices in the world â the Communications Palace. This is the building that carries with it about 3 thousand workers everyday.
Cibeles is surrounded by the grand white wedding cake-like Communications Palace from 1917, Linares Palace from 1900 and now the site of the Casa de America cultural center, the 1777 Buenavista Palace and now Spain's Army Headquarters, and the Bank of Spain, completed in 1891.