Paseo Montejo
The Paseo Montejo is a street in Mérida , the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán . It runs parallel to streets number 56 and 58 and is therefore called calle 56A . The Paseo Montejo was intended to be reminiscent of the Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City and the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris , as the city planners wanted , and is a splendid boulevard characterized by trees and spacious villas.
The street has three lanes in both directions, with the middle and left lanes being lanes and the right lane being used for parking. In the middle of the street there is a narrow median with a lawn. On both sides of the road there are spacious pedestrian paths with rows of trees on both sides of the path.
The course of the road
The Paseo Montejo runs from north to south. It begins immediately south of the Monument for the Fatherland at the intersection with Avenida Campo Deportivo and ends between calle 47 and calle 49. North of the Monument for the Fatherland, the far less splendid Prolongación Montejo forms the continuation of Paseo Montejo.
history
The first section of the boulevard named in honor of the city founder Francisco de Montejo y León (1502-1565) was inaugurated in 1904. In 1906 the first monument was erected in honor of the Yucatec writer Justo Sierra O'Reilly (1814–1861), which at the time still marked the northern end of the street.
The road was expanded to its current length in 1926 when it was extended by 371 meters in a northerly direction. The expansion took place up to the roundabout that has since been considered the beginning of Paseo Montejo and in the middle of 1956 the monument for the fatherland designed by the Colombian sculptor Rómulo Rozo was erected.
From there, the road was further expanded in a northerly direction in 1979 as Prolongación Montejo . Since a further extension of this street, which was made in 1993, the entire distance of the Paseo Montejo and "its" Prolongación measures a total of 5,438 meters.