Parque Juarez

Parque Juarez is an open park in the city of Xalapa, in the territory of Veracruz in eastern Mexico. It was introduced in 1892 and named to pay tribute to Benito Juarez, 20 years after his passing. The recreation center is situated in focal Xalapa with a porch like appearance connecting the Palacio de Gobierno working, over the road from the Palacio Municipal and near the Cathedral. The southern side of the recreation center investigates the valley beneath, offering picturesque perspectives on the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains: Cofre de Perote toward the West and snowcapped Pico de Orizaba toward the South. Since the mid 16th century, the site had been the area of the Monastery of San Francisco.

In 1922, the Junta de Obras Materiales de Jalapa, directed by William K. Boone, proposed, structured and manufactured an incline to make it simpler for vehicles to achieve the focal point of the city from the old train station. In 1930, the rampa del Parque Juarez was renamed Paseo del Ayuntamiento and a while later Paseo de la Constitucion. At about the center of the slope there are four statues that speak to the Cardinal Virtues: Fortitude, Justice, Prudence and Temperance. The initial three were set in 1931; the last one out of 1979. The focal greenhouse of the recreation center highlights gigantic araucaria trees, some of which were brought to Mexico as a present to Porfirio Diaz by the envoy from Chile, some time before the initiation of the recreation center in 1892.