Aurora Boulevard is a four-to-ten lane major thoroughfare in
Quezon City
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and
San Juan in
Metro Manila
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, Philippines. It was named after
Doña
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Aurora Quezon
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, the consort of
Commonwealth
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President
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Manuel Luis Quezon
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. It is one of the major roads in the commercial district of
Araneta City
Araneta City (stylized in all lowercase), formerly and still commonly known as Araneta Center, is a Transit-oriented development, transit oriented, commercial Mixed-use development, mixed-use development in Quezon City, Philippines. Situated i ...
in
Cubao
Quezon City (, ; fil, Lungsod Quezon ), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read in Filipino as Kyusi), is the List of cities in the Philippines, most populous city in the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a populatio ...
.
Line 2 follows the alignment of the boulevard.
Route description
Aurora Boulevard is divided into two routes, the Araneta Avenue to EDSA, and EDSA to
Katipunan Avenue
Katipunan Avenue ( fil, Abenida Katipunan) is a major avenue in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It runs in a north–south direction from the University of the Philippines Diliman, intersecting with Tandang Sora Avenue at its northernmost ...
(
C-5). Most of the road is a 4-lane
dual carriageway
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, with
Line 2 having five stations above ground, while one (
Katipunan station
Katipunan station is an underground Manila Light Rail Transit (LRT) station situated on Line 2. It is the only underground station in the entire line. The station is located in Loyola Heights in Quezon City and is named because of its location ...
) is located underground.
Aurora Boulevard starts as a physical extension of
Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard
Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard, also known simply as Magsaysay Boulevard and formerly as Santa Mesa Boulevard, is the principal artery of Santa Mesa in Manila, Philippines. It is a six-lane divided roadway that travels east–west from Gregorio Aran ...
past
Araneta Avenue near the
Manila
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-
Quezon City
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boundary. It then enters
San Juan before crossing Ermitaño Creek near
Broadway Centrum
Broadway Centrum was a television studio complex located in the New Manila district of Quezon City at Aurora Boulevard cor. Broadway (formerly Doña Juana Rodriguez) Avenue, Quezon City. It is currently owned by the Empire East Land Holdings, a ...
to return to Quezon City, this time at the
New Manila
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district. It then intersects
Gilmore Avenue
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,
Balete Drive
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, and E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenue, before it meets EDSA.
Past EDSA, it passes near the
Araneta City
Araneta City (stylized in all lowercase), formerly and still commonly known as Araneta Center, is a Transit-oriented development, transit oriented, commercial Mixed-use development, mixed-use development in Quezon City, Philippines. Situated i ...
in Cubao. The road continues eastward through
barangays
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Silangan, Quirino 3-A and Duyan-Duyan, until it ends at
Katipunan Avenue
Katipunan Avenue ( fil, Abenida Katipunan) is a major avenue in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It runs in a north–south direction from the University of the Philippines Diliman, intersecting with Tandang Sora Avenue at its northernmost ...
(
C-5) near the Quezon City-
Marikina
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It is loca ...
boundary. It continues eastward to
Rizal
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province as
Marcos Highway.
History
A road from
Katipunan Avenue
Katipunan Avenue ( fil, Abenida Katipunan) is a major avenue in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It runs in a north–south direction from the University of the Philippines Diliman, intersecting with Tandang Sora Avenue at its northernmost ...
to
EDSA
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(Epifanio de los Santos Avenue), called Calle Quezon, was built in 1900. The section from
EDSA
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to
Gilmore Avenue
Gilmore Avenue is a main road and suburban distributor in Kwinana south of Perth, and runs through or alongside the suburbs of Medina, Orelia, Calista and Leda, linking them to the Kwinana Freeway via Thomas Road and also to Kwinana Hub S ...
had been renamed San Juan Road, classified as Highway 53, and was also known as Calle Morales. The portion from Gilmore Avenue to
Dewey Boulevard, named Marikina-Ermita Avenue in 1955, was later reclaimed as
Legarda Street
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,
Recto Avenue
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, and Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard. As the road was constructed as an extension of
Santa Mesa Boulevard (now Magsaysay Boulevard), it was also called the Santa Mesa Boulevard Extension Road.
The highway was then renamed Aurora Boulevard in 1963 to honor former
First Lady
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Aurora Quezon
Aurora Antonia Quezon ( Aragón y Molina; February 19, 1888 – April 28, 1949) was the wife of Philippine President Manuel Luis Quezon and the First Lady of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. Although she is recognized as the second First Lady ...
, the assassinated consort of President
Manuel L. Quezon
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, (; 19 August 1878 – 1 August 1944), also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier and politician who served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 until his de ...
.
Magnolia Ice Cream House ice cream parlor and factory, was located at the corner of Aurora Boulevard and Doña Hemady Street (now occupied by
Robinsons Magnolia
Robinsons Magnolia is a shopping mall owned and operated by Robinsons Malls. The mall opened on August 13, 2012. It is the 32nd mall opened by Robinsons and the company’s third mall in Quezon City. It has a gross floor area of . Robinsons Magno ...
).
Official website - Robinsons Magnolia
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Intersections
References
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Streets in Metro Manila