Spain Avenue (), formerly known as the Avenue of the Exhibition () and then as

Alfonso XIII Alfonso XIII (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena''; French language, French: ''Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon''; 17 May ...

Avenue () until 1931, is an avenue in

Lima Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...

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. It extends from east to west in the districts of Lima and

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along 7 blocks. The tracks of the ''Metropolitano'' extend along its route between Paseo de la República and Alfonso Ugarte Avenue.

History

The avenue's inception began in the early 20th century, as the city of Lima expanded westward. The avenue's 3rd block begins at the site of the former Lima Penitentiary, today the Lima Civic Center. From the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the avenue's intersection with Garcilaso de la Vega was the location of the former U.S. Embassy until its move to Monterrico due to being targeted by the terrorist group

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on several occasions, as well as by the MRTA, who bombed the embassy on February 14, 1990.

Route

It starts at its intersection with the Plaza Grau and the Paseo de la República with a circulating direction from east to west. Between Paseo de la República and Avenida Garcilaso de la Vega, the avenue passes under a bridge, near the

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. The 4th block of the avenue houses the

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-style building of the Provincial Sub-Prefecture of Lima. The intersection with Garcilaso de la Vega is the location of the ''Clínica Internacional'' since the 1990s and of the Casa Matusita, a house known for the popular belief of being of the paranormal type.

References

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