Bulevardi

Bulevardi is part of a culturally and historically significant avenue axis continuing via Erottaja and the Esplanadi park to the Market Square.

[1]: 79  The street has been designated as a nationally significant urban environment,[2] surrounded by architecturally valuable buildings.

[1]: 97 Bulevardi was founded in the 19th century to ease the traffic between Hietalahti and the South Harbour.

[1]: 29  The architect Carl Ludvig Engel bought two lots on the street, erected his house of residence there and founded a garden.

[1]: 53 The motor traffic part of the street is paved with a nearly perfectly preserved Belgian block pavement from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Personal car traffic on Bulevardi was forbidden from 1973 to 1989, when the street was part of a transit mall experiment.

Personal car traffic was allowed again when it turned out that the police did not have enough resources to enforce the ban.

Bulevardi in August 2020.
Bulevardi in 2019. In the middle is the famous Café Ekberg .
Bulevardi in the early 20th century.
A Valmet Nr II tram on Bulevardi in summer 2019.
The house at the corner of Bulevardi and Erottajankatu (Bulevardi 2–4), serving as the premises of the hotel Klaus K .