18 de Julio Avenue

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18 de Julio Avenue
coat of arms
Street in Montevideo
Basic data
place Montevideo
District Centro , Cordón
Cross streets u. a. Bulevar Artigas
Places Plaza Independencia , Plaza del Entrevero , Plaza de Cagancha , Plazuela Lorenzo Justiniano Pérez , Plaza de los Treinta y Tres
Buildings Palacio Lapido , Edificio Rex , Palacio Municipal , Universidad de la República , Agencia 19 de Junio
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length 3 km

The Avenida 18 de Julio is a street in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo .

location

Along with Bulevar Artigas and Rambla , Avenida 18 de Julio ( German  Allee des 18. Juli ) is not only one of the city's most important streets, it also forms its central core. Some of the most important and historic buildings in Montevideo are located along Avenida 18 de Julio, as are several important squares. With the numerous supermarkets and shops of all kinds, banks, restaurants, galleries and other service providers located in it, it is the main shopping street of the Uruguayan metropolis. The approximately three kilometer long street leads in a west-east direction from the Plaza Independencia through the Barrios Centro and Cordón to the Tres Cruces district , where it meets the Bulevar Artigas, which runs in a south-north direction. Opposite the confluence there with the Bulevar is the Obelisk of Montevideo . Running in a straight line, it only bends slightly to the north when reaching the border of the Barrios Cordón.

history

The Avenida 18 de Julio was designed as the central axis of the so-called Ciudad Nueva as part of the expansion of the city center beyond the old area of Ciudad Vieja , which was located within the former city wall . Originally, the road only led to what was then the Camino de Maldonado . There, at what was then Médanos (today's Dr. Javier Barrios Amorin ), there was a fork in the Camino de Maldonado and today's Avenida Constituyente (then Estanzuela ). Later, Avenida 18 de Julio was extended to the obelisk, where the so-called Ciudad Novísima began. The name of the street goes back to the day of the adoption of the first constitution as part of Uruguay's independence on July 18, 1830, the so-called Jura de la Constitución ( constitutional oath ) at Plaza Matriz .

Detailed history

Starting at Plaza Independencia between Palacio Salvo and Palacio Rinaldi , Avenida 18 de Julio first runs through the Barrio Centro. It leads past the Jockey Club , the Sala Brunet , Salón de Exposición , the Museo de la Fotografia , the Palacio Lapido , the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo , the Palacio Braceras and the Museo del Gaucho y la Moneda harboring Palacio Uriarte de Heber for four Blocks away from Plaza Fabini . The Monumento El Entrevero is located on this square, also known as Plaza del Entrevero . Another important street of Montevideo, Avenida Libertador, branches off to the northeast from the square, which is bounded by the Colonia, which runs parallel to 18 de Julio and laterally by the streets Julio Herrera y Obes and Rio Negro . Edificio Rex and Sala Zitarrosa are located on the south side of Avenida 18 de Julio opposite Plaza Fabini . As it progresses, the street still continues in an easterly direction and meets the Plaza Cagancha located there , two more blocks, including the Edificio del London París . A few hundred meters east of it, such as the Palacio Montero , the Palacio Santos , the Edificio Confitería La Americana , the Diario El Día , Cine Trocadero , Edificio Café Montevideo and Palacio Díaz passing that bends Avenida 18 de Julio at the rising end there Palacio Municipal on the junction of Avenida Constituyente in a north-easterly direction. The area of ​​the Barrios Cordón begins around this bend.

At this point in its change of direction, the Monumento El Gaucho has its place on the local Plazuela Lorenzo Justiniano Pérez . While the Edificio Santiago de Chile with Palacio Santa Lucía and the Iglesia Evangélica Metodista are close to the change in course within sight of Avenida 18 de Julio , it is now the seat of the Uruguayan Ministry for Social Development , including the Banco de Crédito on its north side (Ministerio de Desarrollo Social) , and affecting both the Edificio Ovalle and the Teatro El Galpón , course on the Plaza de los Treinta y Tres four blocks from the fork . Passing the Edificio del Notariado , the National Library , the Universidad de la República , the Instituto Profiláctico de la Sífilis and the Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay , it finally ends at the obelisk.

  • View from Plaza Independencia into Avenida 18 de Julio

  • 18 de Julio Avenue

  • Gaucho statue by José Luis Zorrilla de San Martin on Avenida 18 de Julio

literature

  • Guía Arquitectónica y Urbanística de Montevideo. 3. Edition. Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo et al., Montevideo et al. 2008, ISBN 978-9974-600-26-3 , pp. 58 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ El Gaucho ( Memento of February 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) at www.montevideo.gub.uy, accessed on February 17, 2012
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