Calle Madero (Madero Street) | |
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 |
Postal code | 06000 |
Nearest metro station | Allende, Bellas Artes, San Juan de Letrán, Zócalo |
Coordinates | 19°26′01″N 99°08′14″W / 19.433617°N 99.137296°W |
East end | Zócalo (Constitution Square) |
West end | Eje Central |
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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 1913.