Hai Bà Trưng Street, Ho Chi Minh City
street in Ho Chi Minh City
Hai Bà Trưng Street (Vietnamese: Đường Hai Bà Trưng) is a major thoroughfare in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Crosses the city formers central districts are District 1 and District 3, now are ward of Xuân Hòa, Tân Định, Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City. It is one of the busiest and oldest streets in Ho Chi Minh City.
Location
Hai Bà Trưng Street has a length about 2.97 km, starts at Mê Linh Square next to Saigon River in the southeast and to Kiệu Bridge crosses over Nhiêu Lộc–Thị Nghè Canal in the northwest, intersects with other bustling streets in downtown are: Đông Du, Lê Thánh Tôn, Lý Tự Trọng, Lê Duẩn Boulevard, Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Điện Biên Phủ and Võ Thị Sáu.
History
This road dates back to before the French colonial period, when it ran through the center of former thành Bát Quái (Citadel of Eight Trigrams), the first version of the Citadel of Saigon. After invading Saigon, the French authorities named it Route N° 14, then renamed Rue Impériale in 1865, and again Rue Nationale in 1870. In 1901, Paul Blanchy, the mayor of Saigon then, passed away, and a year later, the government decided to rename Rue Nationale to Rue Paul Blanchy. According to some reports from 1904, this was the first road in Saigon to be paved with asphalt concrete. The paved section 1.337 m long, 6 m wide, from Boulevard Norodom (now is Lê Duẩn Boulevard) to Rue Marché (now is Trần Quốc Toản Street), the asphalt was imported from France.
In 1952, the government of State of Vietnam rename the section of the road from Boulevard Norodom to Kiệu Bridge as Rue Trưng Nữ Vương, while the half still keep Rue Paul Blanchy.
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