Francisco I. Madero Avenue
| Calle Madero (Madero street) | |
Calle Madero; The Torre Latinoamericana in the background
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| Former name(s) | Calle de La Profesa, Calle de San Francisco, Paseo de Plateros |
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| Namesake | Francisco I. Madero |
| Type | Pedestrian |
| Length | 700 m (2,300 ft) |
| Location |
Historic center of Mexico City  MEX
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| Postal code | 06000 |
| Nearest metro station | Bellas Artes, Zócalo |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: 19°26′01″N 99°08′14″W / 19.433617°N 99.137296°W |
| East end | Zócalo (Constitution Square) |
| West end | Eje Central |
| Construction | |
| Inauguration | 1862 |
Francisco I. Madero Avenue, commonly known as simply Madero street is a geographically and historically significant pedestrian street of Mexico City and a major thoroughfare of the historic city center. It has an East-West orientation from Zócalo to the Eje Central. From that point the street is called Avenida Juárez and becomes accessible to one-way traffic from one of the city's main boulevards, the Paseo de la Reforma.
It was named in honour of one of the most important figures in the Mexican Revolution - Francisco I. Madero, a leader of the Anti-Re-election Movement and who was briefly President of Mexico before his assassination in 1914.
This street has always been one of the most popular and busiest roads since colonial times and was designed by Spaniard Alonso Garcia Bravo. It was one of the first streets to be drawn of the new Spanish city on the ruins of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.
In the nineteenth century, Madero was already one of the most popular and crowded streets of the capital. In many buildings concurred popular sites like the Casa de los Azulejos, home of the famous Jockey Club or imported products stores, some of which exist until today as the "Pastelería El Globo" (El Globo Pastry) and "Sombreros Tardán" (Tardán Hats). Another famous store was "Droguería Plateros" (Plateros Drugstore) at 9 Second Street of Plateros. In its upper part, Ferdinand Bon Benard and Gabriel Veyre, dealers of Lumiere Brothers, gave on August 14, 1896 the first cinema show in Mexico.
There are chronicles about the popularity of the Madero street as a social point of meeting written by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Guillermo Prieto, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Luis G. Urbina, among others.
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