From the 1860s, further town planning created many of the wide avenues and apartment blocks still seen today.

Turning a corner, we found ourselves on a wide, busy avenue.

The red Ford drove on at high speed down the wide avenue.

The street was once a wide avenue, much of which has been converted into parking space.

When at length it did, he started slowly across the wide avenue.

They moved along what had obviously once been a wide, tree-shaded avenue.

Down the wide empty avenue came a little group of men at a walking pace.

Where the wide avenue and the square used to be was now a gigantic crater.

At the next intersection, they turned right into a wider avenue.

He was nearly across the wide avenue when the impossible happened.