Avenida Bucareli
Street in Mexico City, Mexico
Avenida Bucareli, often referred to as "Bucareli Street", is a main avenue and eje vial (arterial road) in Mexico City. It divides the Historic center on the east from Colonia Juárez on the west. It is named after the viceroy of New Spain, Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa, who commissioned it. Built in the late 18th century and called Paseo Nuevo, it was once a wide boulevard lined with more than 1000 ash trees. In the 19th century the walking paths on either side were built upon and the avenue acquired its current width. It originally had three plazas, each with a fountain. Only one fountain survives, though it was moved to Plaza Loreto.[1]
Points of interest
- Paseo de la Reforma, Bucareli's northern end, the Glorieta del Caballito, where the Equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain once stood
- Excélsior (1923) and El Universal newspaper buildings
- Café La Habana, opened in 1954
- Reloj Chino (Chinese clock)
- Edificio Gaona (1922)
- Secretariat of the Interior
- Edificio Vizcaya at #128
- Conjunto Mascota, workers' apartments along interior streets, developed by the founder of El Buen Tono cigarette company, and constructed by Miguel Ángel de Quevedo.
- Mercado Juárez, the local market for Colonia Juárez
- Avenida Chapultepec, southern end of Bucareli
References
External links
- Avenida Bucareli, Ciudad de México en el tiempo (Mexico City through the ages), television program
- "Bucareli, antiguos esplendores en la calle de las ratas" (Bucareli, old splendor in the street of rats), El Correo
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and immediate vicinity
- Administrative buildings
- Metropolitan Cathedral
- Nacional Monte de Piedad
- National Palace
- Old Portal de Mercaderes
- Templo Mayor
- Church of Jesus Nazareno
- Church of San Felipe Neri "La Profesa"
- Church of San Hipólito
- Church of Santa Inés
- Convent of La Merced
- Convent of San Francisco
- Convent of Santa Inés
- Corpus Christi Church
- Historic Synagogue Justo Sierra 71
- Iglesia de San Bernardo
- La Enseñanza Church
- La Santísima Church
- Nuestra Señora de Loreto Church
- Regina Coeli Convent Church
- Royal Convent of Jesús María and Our Lady of Mercy
- Santa Teresa la Antigua
- Santa Veracruz Monastery
- Santo Domingo
- Templo Expiatorio Nacional de San Felipe de Jesús
- Valvanera Cathedral
- Caricature Museum
- Casa Talavera Cultural Center
- Centro Cultural de España
- Colegio de San Ildefonso
- Franz Mayer Museum
- House of the First Print Shop in the Americas
- Interactive Museum of Economics
- José Luis Cuevas Museum
- Museo de Arte Popular
- Museo de Charrería
- Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público
- Museo del Estanquillo
- Museo Mural Diego Rivera
- Museo Nacional de Arte
- Museo Nacional de la Estampa
- Museo Nacional de las Culturas
- Museum of Light
- Museum of Mexico City
- Palace of the Inquisition
- Palacio de Minería
- San Pedro y San Pablo College