Boulevard

For other uses, see Boulevard (disambiguation).
"Blvd" redirects here. For other uses, see BLVD (disambiguation).

Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, United States
The Straße des 17. Juni in Berlin, Germany
Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland
Viali di Circonvallazione in Florence, Italy

A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees, or in parts of North America, any urban highway or wide road in a commercial district.

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.