Avenue Foch with chestnut trees along its full length. The Avenue was constructed during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, as part of the grand plan for the reconstruction of Paris conducted by Napoleon's Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann. It was designed to connect the Place d'Etoile with another important part of Haussmann's plan, the Bois de Boulogne, the new public park on the west end of the city. The original plan, by Jacques Hittorff, who had designed the Place de la Concorde decades earlier, called for an avenue forty meters wide between the modern Avenue Victor Hugo and the modern
Makhtumkuli Avenue Makhtumkuli Avenue Makhtumkuli Avenue (, ) also spelled as Magtymguly Avenue in English is an avenue in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. It is cobsidered to be the longest and most prominent avenue in the capital When it was originally created, Makhtumkuli Avenue (then Mervsky Prospect) ran through the entire city and then merged with the road leading to Merv. Later during the Soviet period under the Turkmen SSR, the avenue was known as Liberty Avenue, which hosteed military and civilian parades on the occasion of many holidays, with most being held on Revolution Day (November 7), Victory Day (May 9), and International