Have you seen the notice on the noticeboard?
ba-KE-ka — three syllables; 'c' before 'e' is soft ('ch').
Use this to direct a neighbour's attention to a posted notice in the building — from the administrator, a utility company, or a neighbour. The bacheca (noticeboard) is the primary communication channel in Italian apartment buildings.
La bacheca (noticeboard) in an Italian apartment building's entrance hall is the traditional channel for official and informal communications: assembly notices, administrator updates, utility maintenance announcements, and neighbour-to-neighbour messages. In modern buildings this is being supplemented by building WhatsApp groups, but the bacheca remains the official notice location.
L'amministratore ha messo un avviso in bacheca.
The administrator has put a notice on the noticeboard.
Most formal use case; administrator notices are legally effective from the moment of posting.
C'è un avviso per la chiusura dell'acqua domani.
There is a notice about the water being cut off tomorrow.
Common type of bacheca notice from utilities or maintenance companies.
Posso mettere un annuncio in bacheca?
Can I put a notice on the noticeboard?
Asking permission to post; usually any resident can post but it should be appropriate.
The bacheca condominiale has been supplemented but not replaced by digital communication in Italian buildings. WhatsApp groups (gruppi del condominio) are now extremely common and function as a real-time noticeboard for urgent communications. However, Italian law still requires formal notices (assembly convocations, official warnings) to be physically posted or delivered — a WhatsApp message alone is not legally sufficient for formal condominium communications.