The Madero Street pedestrian corridor is one of the oldest streets in Mexico City, built shortly after the Conquest. It is the busiest street in all of Mexico and is the busiest pedestrian street in all of Latin America, more than 350,000 people pass through it every day.
This street is better known as Madero Pedestrian Corridor, is the busiest in Mexico City and the entire country.
In past centuries it received different names, such as Calle de San Francisco and Calle de Plateros. It has been called Francisco I. Madero since 1914.
The one who gave it its definitive name was Pancho Villa himself. He placed a plaque on the marble of the La Mexicana building (where the Zara store is now), on the corner of Isabel la Católica.
In addition, it is one of the roads with more memories because, being a direct route to the capital's Zócalo, it has been strategic in several moments of the country's history.
Its original name was "1st Street of San Francisco." because this street was the site of the Franciscan convent that was once the largest in the Americas, and whose church can still be seen a few steps from the Torre Latinoamericana.
Madero Street also came to have the names of La Profesa by the temple that is also located on this street and Plateros by the viceregal decree that established that the Silver merchants should establish themselves on this street.
It was in August 2009 when it was conditioned in this way.
At first it was only closed on weekends to prevent cars from passing through.
However, during 2010, the street underwent a complete transformation. Since October of that year, the passage of cars was eliminated to make it 100% pedestrian.
It is 700 meters long and its ends are located between Eje Central Lazaro Cardenas and Plaza de la Constitucion.
The Gante Pedestrian Corridor, the Motolinia Pedestrian Corridor, Bolivar Street, Isabel la Católica Street and La Palma Street cross the Madero corridor.
On the morning of December 8, 1914, Pancho Villa brought a musical band to liven up the corner of Plateros and San José el Real (today Isabel La Católica).
Then he climbed a ladder and nailed a plaque in the white marble. It bore the name of Francisco I. Madero and he placed it as a tribute to the president who had been assassinated.
It is said that he threatened everyone, because whoever dared to remove it would be shot. We do not know if it was because of the threat or why, but the population quickly became fond of that name and that is how it was baptized.
Address: Av Francisco I. Madero 5, Centro Histórico de la Cdad. de México, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06000 Centro, CDMX
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