Avenida Bispo Medeiros

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Avenida Bispo Medeiros
Street in Dili
Avenida Bispo Medeiros
The Mercado Municipal at the beginning of Av. Bispo Medeiros
Basic data
place Dili
District Balide , Santa Cruz , Caicoli and Mascarenhas
Connecting roads Avenida Xavier do Amaral (in the north), Rua Lahane (in the south)
Cross streets Rua do Mercado Municipal, Rua 12 de Novembro, Avenida de Balide, Rua Dom José Reibeiro
Buildings Mercado Municipal , Central Post Office, Defensoria Pública , Church of Balide
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , private traffic , public transport

The Avenida Bispo Medeiros is one of the main streets in the center of the East Timorese capital Dili .

designation

Avenida Bispo Medeiros after 1900

The Avenida is named after the Roman Catholic Bishop António Joaquim de Medeiros (1846–1897), who promoted the proselytization of Portuguese Timor in the 19th century. From 1877 he was Superior of the Church and Vicar General and from 1884 Bishop of Macau . He died in Portuguese Timor in 1897.

course

Road map

The Avenida forms the border between the administrative offices of Vera Cruz in the west, with the Sucos Caicoli and Mascarenhas , and Nain Feto in the east, with the Suco Santa Cruz . The southern part leads through the Balide district .

Originally, Avenida Bispo Medeiros reached as far as the Bay of Dili , but in 2015 the northern part was renamed Avenida Xavier do Amaral .

Avenida Bispo Medeiros now begins at the roundabout at the Mercado Municipal , which is now the Dili exhibition center. Avenida Liberdade de Imprensa comes from the east and Rua de Caicoli from the west . Where the Rua do Mercado Municipal branches off to the west, on the east side is the Dilis central post office , built in 2010 with Korean help, and next to it the headquarters of the military police . Opposite is the Indonesian Cultural Center ( Pusat Budaya Indonesia ). On the west side is the Universidade de Díli (UNDIL) and the Korean School (Escola Lian Korea) , where several hundred East Timorese guest workers receive language lessons for their future work in South Korea . After the junction with Avenida de Balide (west) and Rua 12 de Novembro , Avenida Bispo Medeiros crosses the Balide district, past the Church of the Conception of Mary in Balide, the Colégio de São José and the São Luís primary school (Escola Primaria Katolica Balide) . From Rua Dom José Reibeiro , Rua Lahane leads south to the district of the same name .

gallery

  • Market on Av. Bispo Medeiros

  • Indonesian cultural center in Dili

  • Central Post Office in Dili

  • The church of Balide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacqueline Aquino Siapno: Representations of Southeast Asians in Korean cinema and other media , Paper presented to conference on Southeast Asian Studies, SIEAS, Sogang University, March 2011 , accessed on November 20, 2016.
  2. ↑ Dilis city map

Coordinates: 8 ° 33 ′ 38 "  S , 125 ° 34 ′ 47.3"  E