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Avenida Corrientes ((英語:Corrientes Avenue)) is one of the principal thoroughfares of the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. The street is intimately tied to the tango and the porteño sense of identity. Like the parallel avenues Santa Fe, Córdoba, and San Juan, it takes its name from one of the Provinces of Argentina. It extends 69 blocks from Eduardo Madero Avenue in the eastern Puerto Madero neighborhood to the West and later to the Northwest, and ends at Federico Lacroze Avenue in the Chacarita neighborhood. Automobile traffic runs from west to east. Line B of the Buenos Aires Metro runs most of its length underneath the street. The ''Asociación Amigos de la Calle Corrientes'' ("Friends of Corrientes Street Association") is a group that collaborates on the urban planning of the street. They have placed commemorative plaques on 40 street corners bearing the distinguished figures from the history of the tango. ==History== It was named Del Sol during the 17th century, San Nicolás from 1738 to 1808, and De Incháurregui from 1808 until 1822, when it received its current name. Never more than a street of average width during the nineteenth century, traffic swelled after the city began its rapid westward expansion, around 1880. Horse-drawn tramways first ran on the avenue in 1887; but, they soon proved inadequate and in 1910, Mayor Joaquín de Anchorena signed a bill authorizing its widening. The plan called for the massive razing of most of the avenue's north-side real estate and, so, met with strenuous opposition from affected landlords, retailers, as well as intellectuals like Roberto Arlt. A coup d'ètat in 1930, however, made way for the plan's implementation, carried out relentlessly until its completion, in 1936. Today, when referring to Corrientes prior to the widening, the term "Narrow Corrientes" (Corrientes Angosta) is used. The newly inaugurated avenue coincided with the construction of the Buenos Aires Obelisk, since then one of the city's most recognizable landmarks, visible for several blocks of the avenue´s downtown stretch. The opening of the Obelisk and surrounding Plaza de la República in 1936 created a roundabout at the 9th of July Avenue intersection. Corrientes, like most major city avenues, was made a one-way thoroughfare by a 1967 municipal ordinance. Growing traffic demands led to the opening of the avenue through the plaza, and around the Obelisk, in 1971.The name "Corrientes Street" (Calle Corrientes) is often still preferred over "Corrientes Avenue" (Avenida Corrientes) specially on the famous centrical stretch. With that name it appears famously in several tango lyrics (see below). The first few blocks (from Leandro N.Alem to Florida Street) encompass Buenos Aires financial district ("La City") forming its Northern boundary, and are bustling with activity during banking hours - traversed after several blocks by popular Florida Street (which forms the district's Western boundary). Further down, for some blocks from 9 de Julio Avenue to Uruguay St. the avenue forms the Southern border of the lawyers' district surrounding the nearby Plaza Lavalle and the Supreme Court. For most of the 20th century "calle Corrientes" was a symbol of night life in Buenos Aires, traditionally nicknamed ("the street that never sleeps", ) In the 10 blocks West of downtown from Maipu St to Callao Avenue it held the largest concentration of theatres and cinemas (together with nearby pedestrian Lavalle Street) leading visitors to dub it the ("Broadway of Buenos Aires" ) (independent theatre in Buenos Aires is called today ("off Corrientes" ) after "off Broadway"). The corridor includes some outstanding examples of Art Deco cinema architecture of the 30s and 40s such as Teatro Gran Rex, Teatro Opera(, Teatro Premier ). With the (largest concentration of bookshops ) (many second hand) Corrientes was during the day a favourite haunt for intellectuals during the 50s, 60s and 70s (specially at celebrated spots such as "Cafe La Paz") while its famous (pizza parlours ) and restaurants (such as ("Los Inmortales", "Guerrin" )) attracted city crowds on Fridays or Saturdays evenings - a night out of "pizza and cinema" (or of theatre going) on Corrientes and neighbouring Lavalle being the standard form of urban weekend entertainment for generations of porteños (as reflected in lyrics such as ("Moscato, pizza y fainá" )). The "Revista porteña" or ("Teatro de revistas" ) (Argentina's centenary culture of theatre revues) with its glittering ''vedettes'' and racy ''capo-cómicos'' (legendary starlets and comedians) is still centered around this stretch of Corrientes - the lure of red carpet opening nights where celebrities can be glimpsed adding to the folklore. At the farther end - the Luna Park is still synonymous with mass sports and entertainment events such as box matches or concerts. Throughout the decades the street has seen its own fauna of urban stereotypes, from the "innocent ''barrio'' girl" corrupted by the "bright city lights" of many a tango lyric in the cabarets and night clubs of the 20s and 30s (cf. "La costurerita que dio aquel mal paso" "The Seamstress who Took the Wrong Turn") to the "valijero" ("peeping tom") lone salesmen or office workers on lunch breach (thus named for their briefcases or "valijas") who sneaked to watch X-rated European movies when they appeared in the 60s and 70s (although more visible on neighbouring Lavalle St) to the "psico-bolche" - artsy students and intellectuals (tipically leftist and/or dabbling in psychology, thus the name) who peopled its bookstores and cafes after the return of democracy in the early 80s. The emergence of video, the Internet, Cineplex and shopping malls conspired to steal much of the former allure of Corrientes, and saw (the closing of several famous cinemas and theatres ). Yet sidewalks were widened and beautified in 2005 to facilitate retail activity along the avenue, which had declined since the 1970s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=La avenida Corrientes pierde un carril )〕 and today Corrientes is once again thriving at night - specially among theatre goers, with several major playhouse renovations and additions. Since the 80s the trend towards world famous Broadway musicals in Spanish coexists with the more traditional or avant-garde serious theatre and the popular Teatro de Revistas. The last blocks of this main stretch, between Avenida Callao and Uruguay Street are converted into an expansive outdoor reading room during Bookstore Night, an annual event inaugurated in 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=La avenida Corrientes, un gran escenario literario )〕 Mayor Mauricio Macri announced in 2010 that the financial district section of Corrientes - between Ninth of July and Avenida Leandro N. Alem, would become a two-way avenue.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Avenida de Mayo y Corrientes serán doble mano antes de fin de año )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Avenida Corrientes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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