Tree avenues
The French term ‘allée’ is used in many parts of Europe when referring to tree-lined ‘ways of passage’ in parks and gardens, in towns or in the country. In the context of landscapes, ‘avenue’ has the same meaning in English. ‘Avenues’ (or ‘tree avenues’) are thus ‘ways of passage’—paths, streets, and roads, but also canals—lined with rows of regularly spaced trees.
Avenues (in this sense) constitute an important cultural, natural, and landscape heritage in France, Europe, and beyond.
To know more about tree avenues, go to the "Quiz" and to the "Tree avenues and road safety" pages.
Our objectives
♦ To foster knowledge about the cultural, natural, and landscape heritage that avenues represent ♦ Through information and education, to raise the awareness of the general public and professionals about the values of avenues ♦ To showcase the heritage of tree avenues and associated best practice ♦ To promote the economic activities and jobs avenues create ♦ To protect and renew existing avenues, and to develop new ones ♦ To support initiatives and protagonists helping to preserve tree avenues ♦
Our actions
ALLÉES-AVENUES /allées d'avenir/ (avenues of the future) acts at a local, a national and an international level. All actions, which are of different natures, will contribute to the future project of a European cultural route.
Actions of scientific nature:
Actions of technical nature:
- National meetings
- ‘Mémento’ (a guidebook in French about the protection of tree avenues)
- a Collaborative platform open to participants of the national meetings
Actions of artistic nature:
- Artistic Observatory
- Exhibition of the Observatory's artworks
Advocacy actions:
- ‘Carcassonne Declaration’
- Support for external actors
- Publications
