Calle de Salvador Novo
The Calle de Salvador Novo is a street in the Barrio de Santa Catarina in the Delegación Coyoacan in Mexico City . It is named after the Mexican writer Salvador Novo (1904–1974).
course
The street begins in the north directly in front of the house number 158 of the multi-lane street Progreso and runs south to Avenida Miguel Ángel de Quevedo . In between, she crosses Avenida Francisco Sosa at the point where the Casa de Alvarado is located. With the exception of the first section, which runs immediately north of Avenida Francisco Sosa, the street is flanked on both sides by mostly high gray stone walls that prevent a view of the properties behind.
Famous residents and special buildings
The official chronicler of Mexico City, Salvador Novo, who wrote two works on the Coyoacán district ( Breve historia de Coyoacán , 1962, and Historia y leyenda de Coyoacán , 1971), lived in a house on the street that is now named after him .
The Romanian King Carol (1893–1953) also lived during his exile in the 1940s with his partner Magda Lupescu (1896–1977) in a house on the corner of today's Salvador Novo street.
The Museo Nacional de la Acuarela "Alfredo Guati Rojo" is located at number 88 in the southern section of the street . A little further south on the opposite side of the street at number 127 is the former estate of the actress Dolores del Río (1905-1983).
Individual evidence
- ^ Salvador Novo (Coordinador): Ciudad de México - V. Sus villas Coyoacan y Churubusco. (Mexico City: Artes de Mexico, 1968), p. 101