Avenues and Alleyways

Inviting me in like Alice down the rabbit hole. Is 'The Mad Hatter' waiting to greet me?

An avenue is traditionally a straight path or road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side, which is used, as its Latin source venire (to come) indicates, to emphasise the 'coming to', or arrival at a landscape or architectural feature. 

In most cases, the trees planted in an avenue will be all of the same species so as to give uniform appearance along the full length of the avenue.

The French term allée is used for avenues planted in parks and landscape gardens, as well as bouelvards such as the Grande Allée in Quebec city, Canada, and Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin.

These photographs are a far cry from the leafy Parisian boulevards that take the design concept to another level, but hey, from ever acorn...