Avenida Juárez

Avenida Juárez is a street in the Historic Center of Mexico City flanking the south side of the centuries-old Alameda Central park.

Avenida Juárez looking west from the Torre Latinoamericana
The Palacio de Bellas Artes which fronts Avenida Juárez
Edificio La Nacional on Avenida Juárez
Complex on Avenida Juárez that includes the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia and a court
what is now Avenida Juárez, around 1880

Originally each block had a different name:

  • Calle de la Puente de San Francisco between San Juan de Letrán (today Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas) and López, in front of the Palacio de Bellas Artes
  • Calle de Corpus Christi, between López and Nueva (today Luis Moya)
  • Calle del Calvario, between Nueva (today Luis Moya) and San Diego (hoy Dr. Mora)
  • Calle de Patoni between San Diego (today Dr. Mora) and Rosales/Bucareli/Paseo de la Reforma

During the 1940s through the 1960s it was one of the city's boulevards, lined with upscale shops and hotels.

In the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, the Alameda, Del Prado and Regis hotels collapsed or were torn down.[1]

The street runs between the intersection of Paseo de la Reforma and Avenida Bucareli, marked by Sebastián's sculpture known as El Caballito, and Eje 1 Central, east of which it becomes Madero Street, the city's busiest pedestrian street.

Buildings and points of interest

Former buildings

Transportation

Metro stations Balderas and Bellas Artes are adjacent to Avenida Juárez, as is the Hidalgo Metrobús (bus rapid transit) station serving lines 3, 4 and 7.

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References
  1. "El famoso Hotel Bamer de avenida Juárez". 7 May 2017.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-03-03. Retrieved 2018-03-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "La Ciudad en el Tiempo: el castillo de la avenida Juárez". 19 November 2017.
  4. "Museo Mural Diego Rivera".
  5. DOCUMENTALES MEXICO DOCUMENTAL (20 December 2017). "Avenida Juarez : (Documental paseos historia curiosidades CALLES AVENIDAS ciudad mexico )" – via YouTube.
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