The Casa de los Azulejos or Palacio de los Condes del Valle de Orizaba is an 18th-century Baroque palace in Mexico City, built by the Count of the Valle de Orizaba family. The building is distinguished by its facade, which is covered on three sides by blue and white colonial Talavera tiles from Puebla state. The palace remained in private hands until near the end of the 19th century. It changed hands several times before being bought by the Sanborns brothers who expanded their soda fountain/drugstore business into one of the best-recognized restaurant chains in Mexico. The house today serves as their flagship restaurant.
View of the Casa de los Azulejos from 5 de Mayo Street
Casa de los Azulejos depicted in a painting of 1858 during the Reform War.
Part of the facade, with azulejos
The peacock mural side of the courtyard.
Francisco I. Madero Avenue, commonly known as simply Madero Street, is a geographically and historically significant pedestrian street of Mexico City and a major thoroughfare of the historic city center. It has an east–west orientation from Zócalo to the Eje Central. From that point the street is called Avenida Juárez and becomes accessible to one-way traffic from one of the city's main boulevards, the Paseo de la Reforma.
Calle Madero; The Torre Latinoamericana in the background
Modern street sign and plaque with the former name of the section, Calle de Plateros.
Commemorative sculpture of Pancho Villa placing the sign that renamed the street on December 8, 1914.
Francisco I. Madero Avenue