This street u2013 that owes its name to the event that occurred on July 25, 1797, that is to say the rejection of the attack and attempted invasion, carried out by Admiral Horacio Nelson on the capital of Tenerife, - is the main axis in the urban network of the Barrio de los Hoteles-Pino de Oro. The avenue, known at that time as Gran V a, is part of the Ensanche Plan of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, made by the architect Manuel de C mara in 1888. It was designed with the purpose of unifying the three urban spaces such as the Weyler Square, of a military and administrative nature, the Plaza de Veinticinco de Julio (residential) and the square of the Paseo de Los Coches (now Rambla de Santa Cruz), residential area and recreation. So in 1903, the town hall commission approved the extension of this street to Robayna Street. This project, however, starts from the ideals for the social and urban organization of Santa Cruz, described by Patricio Est vanez since 1881, where he already projected the image of a great avenue for the city, alluding to the great avenues of the main cities of the pen nsula. In 1924, traffic was opened linking General Weyler Square with the Paseo de los Coches (Rambla de Santa Cruz), incorporating a roundabout or square through which to cross the future streets of Viera and Clavijo, General O u2019Donnell and Costa Grijalva Along the way there are emblematic buildings such as, the Plaza de 25 de Julio, popularly known as Plaza de Los Patos, the Mansion Mart Dehesa, the Church of San J ...
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