Avenida Juárez

19°26′07″N 99°08′52″W / 19.435174°N 99.147678°W / 19.435174; -99.147678

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 (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.