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15 charming lanes




Alleys - are usually small narrow streets, usually with beautiful facades and balconies that littered the various flowers and climbing plants. In most cases, their width can walk on them only to pedestrians, and they are a favorite destination of tourists and photographers, as when walking on them can do some amazing photos.

1. A street in the town of Antibes (Antibes), France



Antibes is a resort town in the Alpes Maritimes (Alpes-Maritimes) in south-eastern France. It is located on the Mediterranean Sea, on the French Riviera (Côte d'Azur), between Cannes and Nice. The old town of Antibes has to be one of the most suitable places to stay along the coast of the French Riviera. Along the amazing streets of Antibes (shown in photo) lined art shops and apartment complexes. Walk along it will bring a lot of fun.

2. Street in the city of Jerez de la Frontera (Jerez), Spain



The economy of Jerez has traditionally focused on the wine industry, the city exports sherry worldwide. This is an amazing street in the city of Jerez in the province of Cádiz (Cádiz), Andalusia.


Trees with bare trunks are planted close to the walls, allowing them to form a canopy over the alley.


Street is located in the old part of the city. At the moment it is a pedestrian walkway and a part of a local winery.

3. A street in the municipality of Eguisheim (Eguisheim), France


Eguisheim is a commune in the department of Haut-Rhin (Haut-Rhin) in the region of Alsace (Alsace) in north-eastern France. The village is a member of the "Association of the prettiest villages in France» (Les Plus Beaux Villages de France), as well as a very popular tourist destination.


In Eguisheim pleasant stroll through the narrow streets under the warm lighting, which varies depending on the season and increases the colorful palette of homes shelters on both sides of the streets.

4. A street in the municipality of Alberobello (Alberobello), Italy



Alberobello is a town in the province of Bari (Bari), Region Apulia (Puglia), famous for its collection of trulli (Trulli), traditional stone dwellings built without mortar, which can only be found in the valley Itrii (Itria). Although this region is scattered many trulli of Alberobello can be viewed on the largest collection of original buildings, many of which are still inhabited, and were even listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This is just one of the many streets that are popular for tourist walks in Alberobello.

5. Street on the island of Kunda (Cunda Island), Turkey



This street with houses, the facades are decorated with artistic painting, located on the island of Kunda. It is a small island situated in the north-western Aegean (Aegean Sea) off the coast seaside town of Ayvalik (Ayvalık), which is part of the Turkish province of Balikesir (Balıkesir).

6. Street Venetian canal (Venice Canal), Italy


Venice is one of the most important tourist destinations in the world for her famous art and architecture. On average, about 50,000 tourists visit this city every day. It is considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world. This street is one of the many streets of the Venetian canal, as well as one of the favorite places for walking tourists.

7. A street in the village of Giverny (Giverny), France



Giverny is a village located in the department of Eure (Eure) in the north of France. She is best known as the home of the famous painter Claude Monet (Claude Monet), which then had a house and garden. The narrow street with the photographs shown above, is a real floral park and so on it is very pleasant to walk.

8. Lombard Street (Lombard Street), in San Francisco, USA


The street is famous because of its small portion of which is in the upper part of the district Rushen Hill (Russian Hill), between the streets of Hyde (Hyde) and Leavenworth (Leavenworth). This hill is so steep (27 °), which travel on it is too dangerous for most vehicles, so the period from 1922 to 1923, this part of Lombard Street was transformed into a serpentine road with eight sharp turns.


The winding of the street, whose length is approximately 400 meters, is designed for one-way traffic to the east (down the hill) and is lined with red brick. The speed limit in this part of the street is 8 kilometers per hour.

9. Street Cherry Blossom (Cherry Blossom Street), City of Bonn (Bonn), Germany



Cherry Blossom Street (Heerstrabe) is located in the German city of Bonn. It's a peaceful street, along which landed a number of beautiful cherry trees that are nice to delight the eye during her flowering. Spring can be felt only when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom.


In Bonn on two streets planted with cherry trees, but pedestrians prefer to walk on Heerstrabe. Flowering cherry trees in the average duration of 7 - 10 days, but it is highly dependent on weather conditions.

10. A street in the town of Orvieto (Orvieto), Italy



Orvieto is a city in the province of Terni (Terni), in the south-west region of Umbria (Umbria), Italy situated on the flat top of a large hill of volcanic tuff. View of the city is one of the finest in Europe. The city dominates the near-vertical surfaces of rocks, tuff, and completed by defensive walls built of the same stone called tufa. This beautiful city is full of charming narrow streets, such as the one depicted in the photo above.

11. Acorn Street (Acorn Street), Boston, USA


This famous street is located in the Beacon Hill (Beacon Hill), in the historic area of ​​Boston. About Acorn Street is often spoken of as "the most frequently photographed outside the United States."


It is a narrow lane, paved with cobblestones, which were at home coachmen serving the family in Mount Vernon and mansions on Chestnut Street (Chestnut Street).

12. Fish Alley (Fiskargränd), Visby (Visby), Sweden


Fish Alley is a street in the city of Visby, which is one of the most photographed streets in Sweden. The area where the Fish Alley, since the 1600s called "Fish Square." Fish Alley was used as the name of the street to the 1750s because of her homes located on the fishermen. Among the other plants in the early 1940s, there have been planted climbing roses.


In December 2004, the citizens have put forward a proposal to Fish Alley was renamed Avenue. The man wrote: "there is no fish, but there are at least a thousand roses." The proposal was rejected by the Municipality of Gotland (Municipality of Gotland), who did not see enough reason to change the name.

13. A street in Frigiliana (Frigiliana), Spain



"White Street" in the photo, is located in Frigiliana - small Andalusian town. The city consists of steep cobbled lanes, passing by white houses, Pestryaev colors.

14. Street in the city of Cartagena (Cartagena), Colombia


Lovely street, shown in photo above, is located in the old part of the city of Cartagena. Architecture is one of the main attributes of Cartagena, in many fine colonial buildings and military buildings and a modern tourist infrastructure, which allows guests of the city to appreciate its historical development.

15. Thermopylae Street (Rue Des Thermopyles), Paris, France


Thermopylae Street is so named because it is as narrow as a pass where in 480 BC, was a legendary battle of Thermopylae. Green street paved with cobblestones Thermopylae is a favorite of cats, and located away from the noisy streets of Raymond Losseran (Rue Raymond Losserand) in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Here live a great number of artists and even has a body of self-organizing of the population.


Walking through the picturesque pedestrian street, you can find books or furniture for residents exposed to passers-by in need of them could take them home. Many of the walls are covered with graffiti, including one work by the French graffiti artist Miss Tick (Miss Tic).

                                                 





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