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{{cleanupInfobox Road|marker_image=<table style="background: transparent;"><td>[[Image:Businesssign.png|52px]]<br/>[[Image:US 98.png|52px]]</td><td>[[Image:Fsr291.png|100px]]</td></table>|road_name=Alcaniz Street|name_notes=|type=|route=[[US Highway 98|US 98 BUS]]<br/>[[Florida State Road 291|Florida 291]]|alternate_name=|maint=|length_mi=|length_round=|length_ref=|length_notes=|established=|decommissioned=|direction_a=north|starting_terminus=[[Cervantes Street]] ([[US Highway 90|US 90]]/[[US Highway 98|US 98]])|junction=[[Wright Street]]<br/>[[Gregory Street]]<br/>[[Garden Street]]|direction_b=south|ending_terminus=[[Bayfront Parkway]]|namesake=|map=|mapcode=}}
[[Alcaniz Street]] is a north-south street that in downtown Pensacola. It currently runs from between its northern terminus at [[Cervantes Street]] to its southern terminus at [[Bayfront Parkway]]. It Alcaniz runs one-way (south) southbound between Cervantes and [[WrightStreet]] Streetss, where it becomes two-way, then and widens until [[Garden Street]] (where , at which point several southbound lanes branch off to form the west), and finally westbound span of Garden. Alcaniz Street continues southward through the [[historic district]] to Bayfront Parkway. The road north of from Cervantes northward to East [[36th Street]] was formerly named Alcaniz as well, but was renamed to [[Martin Luther King, Jr. BoulevardDrive]] on [[January 14]], [[2000]], after an effort led by [[Movement for Change]] President [[LeRoy Boyd]] in 1997. The original proposal was to rename the entire street, but there was opposition from changing the name in the historical district. The City Council concurred with keeping the Alcaniz name, splitting the street so it honors both past and recent history.
Some notable landmarks along Alcaniz Street include the [[Crowne Plaza Grand Hotel]], the [[Pensacola Civic Center]] and [[Seville Square]].
The name itself seems to come from Spain. One of the principal cities of Teruel (in the region of [[Aragon]]) is the town of Alcaniz, which may take its name from the plain, Alcaniz, where it is situated. (This is consistent with other Pensacola street names. Another Spanish province is [[Tarragona]] whose capital city, Tarragona, is traditionally where St. Paul founded the Christian church in Spain in A.D. 60. One of the major towns of Tarragona province is [[Reus]].)
==Florida State Road 291 carriage==
Alcaniz Street carries the southbound half of [[Florida State Road 291]] between [[Cervantes Street|Cervantes]] and [[Gregory Street]]s, as well as Florida 291's northbound span for one block, between [[Gregory Street|Gregory]] and [[Wright Street]]s. At [[Wright Street|Wright]], Florida 291 northbound heads east on Wright for one block, then turns north onto [[Davis Street]].
==US 98 Business carriage==
Alcaniz Street carries [[US Highway 98|US 98 Business]] southbound for two blocks, between [[Gregory Street|Gregory]] and [[Garden Street]]s, as well as [[US Highway 98|US 98 Business]] northbound for one block, between [[Garden Street|Garden]] and [[Chase Street]]s.