Mannerheimintie

Mannerheimintie (Swedish: Mannerheimvägen), named after the Finnish military leader and statesman Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, is the main street and boulevard of Helsinki, Finland.

It was originally named Heikinkatu (Swedish: Henriksgatan), after Robert Henrik Rehbinder on the first part up to the current Kiasma Art museum and Turuntie after that, but was renamed after the Winter War.

The change of name was also a reference to Mannerheim's victory parade along the road during the Finnish Civil War (1918), after German forces, allied with Mannerheim's Finnish forces, had retaken the city.

[1] The street begins at Erottaja in the city centre, near the Swedish Theatre and continues in a northernly direction past the Stockmann department store.

(Geographically, the highway only ends in central Tampere, as a small street called Kalevan Puistotie.)