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Avenida Juárez

Historic center of Mexico CityStreets in Mexico City
Alameda Central
Alameda Central

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 ReformaDuring 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.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.

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Avenida Juárez
Ciclovía Juárez, Mexico City

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Puerta 1808
Puerta 1808

Puerta 1808 (Spanish for "Gateway") is an outdoor carbon steel sculpture by Manuel Felguérez installed in Mexico City, Mexico. It was inaugurated on 20 October 2007 by Marcelo Ebrard, the head of government, and was placed in the corner of Paseo de la Reforma and Avenida Juárez, in Cuauhtémoc. It is a 15 meters (49 feet) high sculpture that lies on a 2 meters (6 ft 7 in) high plinth. The number in its name represents the year 1808 referencing the country's pre-independence events of 1810. Despite its name, it is an abstract sculpture that is not a traditional gateway-shaped figure. Felguérez said it represents one symbolically as it is the starting point to the historic center of Mexico City. He also dedicated it to Francisco Primo de Verdad y Ramos, a New Spain lawyer imprisoned by the Spanish authorities for his independentist advocacy and who died in a prison in 1808. Puerta 1808 was created specifically for the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the country's independence.Álvaro Medina, from the Durban Segnini Gallery, described the sculpture as a "structure composed of a pair of triangles, the trunk of a cone divided vertically, a pair of cantilevered arched beams, a tubular linear beam and a few tensors".: 10 Later in his life, Felguérez said about Puerta 1808: "It is a living sculpture: it changes its look in every demonstration; it is colored with the slogans of the nonconformists in turn. And this, far from bothering me or being a grievance for the sculpture, gives it dynamism and validity that will only be exhausted when we live in a fair country and when all social demands have been satisfied. That is to say, never".