A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees, or in parts of North America, any urban highway.
Boulevards were originally circumferential roads following the line of former city walls.
In North American usage, boulevards may be wide, multi-lane thoroughfares divided with only a central median.
The word boulevard is borrowed from French. In French, it originally meant the flat surface of a rampart, and later a promenade taking the place of a demolished fortification. It is a borrowing from the Dutch word bolwerk 'bulwark'.[1]
Keshavarz Boulevard of Tehran in mid 1970s
Roxas Boulevard in Manila
Boulevard Haussmann in Paris
Combino Supra at the Grand Boulevard in Budapest
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Boulevard in Florence
Avinguda Diagonal in Barcelona
Clean Ponds in the wide median green of Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow
Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma
Queens Boulevard in New York City
Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia
