18 de Julio Avenue

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

Location

The Avenida 18 de Julio ( German avenue of July 18 ), is next to the Bulevar Artigas and the Rambla, not only one of the main streets of the city, but it also forms the central core. Some of the most important and historical buildings in Montevideo have along Avenida 18 de Julio their place just as several important places. Due to the numerous settled in their supermarkets and shops of all kinds, banks, restaurants, galleries and other service providers, it forms the main shopping street of the Uruguayan capital. The approximately three -kilometer road leads west to east direction from the Plaza Independencia by the Centro and Cordón barrios up in the suburb of Tres Cruces, where she meets the leading in South-North direction Bulevar Artigas. Opposite the local confluence with the Bulevar is the Obelisk of Montevideo. In a straight line extending it bends only about easily when reaching the limit of the Cordón barrios in northern direction.

History

The Avenida 18 de Julio was designed as part of the expansion of the town center over the old, located within the city walls formerly existing area of ​​Ciudad Vieja addition, as the central axis of the so-called Ciudad Nueva. Originally, the road led merely to the former Camino de Maldonado. There was at the former Medanos (today Dr. Javier Barrios Amorin ) a fork in those same Camino de Maldonado and today's Avenida Constituyente (then Estanzuela ) instead. Later followed by an extension of Avenida 18 de Julio and the Obelisk, where the so-called Ciudad Novísima began. The street name goes on the date of adoption of the first constitution in the context of the independence of Uruguay on July 18, 1830 back, the so-called Jura de la Constitución ( Constitution oath ) on the Plaza Matriz.

Detailed History

Your starting point in the Plaza Independencia and Palacio Salvo Palacio between Rinaldi Taking the Avenida 18 de Julio runs first through the Barrio Centro. It leads past the Jockey Club, the Sala Brunet, Salón de ExposiciÃ, the Museo de la Fotografia, Palacio Lapido, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Palacio Braceras and the Museo del Gaucho y la Moneda harboring Palacio Uriarte de Heber to four blocks from Plaza Fabini. Is the Monumento El Entrevero On this also called Plaza del Entrevero. From the parallel to 18 de Julio running Colonia and laterally confined by Julio Herrera y Obes the streets and Rio Negro space branches in northeast direction from another major street of Montevideo, the Avenida Libertador. On the south side of Avenida 18 de Julio, opposite Plaza Fabini the Edificio Rex is the Sala Zitarrosa. In the progressive course of the road still leads now to the east and take two more blocks while passing among others, the Edificio del London París, on the Plaza cagancha situated therein. A few hundred meters east of it, such as the Palacio Montero, Palacio Santos, the Edificio Confitería La Americana, the Diario El Día, Cine Trocadero, Edificio Café Montevideo Palacio Díaz passing, the Avenida 18 de Julio bends when there uplifting Palacio Municipal at the branch of the Avenida Constituyente from the northeast direction. Approximately at this kink begins the territory of the Cordón barrios.

At this point, its change of direction the Monumento El Gaucho has its place on the local Plazuela Lorenzo Justiniano Pérez. While close to the change of shape within view of the Avenida 18 de Julio, the Edificio Santiago de Chile together with Palacio Santa Lucía and the Iglesia Evangélica Metodista are, it takes among other things, built on its north side Banco de Crédito, nowadays seat of the Uruguayan Ministry of Social Development ( Ministerio de Desarrollo Social), and both the Edificio Ovalle and the Teatro El Galpón tangent, course on the four blocks from the crotch remote Plaza de los Treinta y Tres. Gone Leading the Edificio del Notariado, at the National Library, the Universidad de la República, Instituto de la Profiláctico sífilis and Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay finally ends at the Obelisk.

Avenida 18 de Julio

Gaucho statue of José Luis Zorrilla de San Martin in the Avenida 18 de Julio