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.
Originally each block had a different name:
- Calle de la Puente de San Francisco between San Juan de Letrán and López, in front of the Palacio de Bellas Artes
- Calle de Corpus Christi, between López and Nueva
- Calle del Calvario, between Nueva and San Diego
- Calle de Patoni between San Diego and Rosales/Bucareli/Paseo de la Reforma
In the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, the Alameda, Del Prado and Regis hotels collapsed or were torn down.
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
- Palacio de Bellas Artes
- Edificio La Nacional, which houses a Sears department store
- Museo Memoria y Tolerancia
- Secretariat of Foreign Affairs
- Corpus Christi Church
- Hemiciclo de Juárez monument in the Alameda
- Hotel Bamer, built 1953
- Avenida Juárez no. #18, formerly Ignacio Torres Adalid's pulquería serving the pulque drink
Former buildings
- "La Acordada" prison
- Pabellón Español
- Hotel Alameda
- Hotel Del Prado, original home of Diego Rivera's mural Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central
- Hotel Regis, which "brought together the upper echelons of the city" and aimed at being the best hotel in Mexico. Included a theater, restaurants, bars, sauna, pharmacy, swimming pool, billiard halls. Favorite of politicians, artists, journalists, and businessmen. Visited by Venustiano Carranza, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Richard Nixon, Fidel Castro, and Agustín Lara.
- Kiosko Morisco, later moved to the main square of Santa María la Ribera