There are ratings of the most lighted as well as the most expensive streets. However, they are not recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. Despite this, the longest street in the world is marked there. It is located in Canada and is the main thoroughfare of the city of Toronto.
Length
Young Street, and this is the name of the longest street in the world, has a rather impressive length. Its length is 1896 kilometers. This distance is greater than the distance between Yekaterinburg and Moscow.
Exceeds the length of this unusual street and the length of Ukraine from its western to eastern borders.
Location
The longest street in the world originates from the center of Toronto, from the seafront promenade located near Lake Ontario. Young Street seems to cut the city into two. It leaves the center towards the north and goes around two lakes - Cochrane and Simko. Then the street makes a smooth U-turn and ends at the very border with the Canadian state of Minnesota.
History of occurrence
Initially, various parts of Young Street were Indians' trails. This road was used by troops and discoverers from Europe. A little later, the British bought a thousand square kilometers of land in these places. And in 1793 the street was given a name. Governor John Simcoe, who was a British citizen, named her in honor of George Young. He ordered to clear the street and make the area passable. His order was carried out by the owners of land adjacent to this territory. And already from 1816 on this road there was a constant roar from carriages, crews and carts. By the mid-nineteenth century, the longest street in the world (Young Street) had become rightfully central in the city of Toronto.
Present day
Central Toronto Street never ceases to amaze with its diversity. There are skyscrapers on it, which are adjacent to the classical buildings. Next to them are Victorian mansions.
Within the city, a subway runs along Young Street. Crowds of tourists walk along the wide sidewalks of the street. Every day on Young Street, life is in full swing. On the street there are a large number of cafes and restaurants, bars and clubs, as well as shops and boutiques.
Pedestrian street
The capital of Denmark, a bird's eye view, pleases the eye with a colorful panorama of steeples and copper roofs, as well as branched streets, sidewalks and carriageways of which are covered with paving stones. There is a special attraction in this city. This is the longest pedestrian street. Streget, and this is what it is called, is known to all residents of Copenhagen. This huge pedestrian zone stretched from the eastern part of the city to the western. It consists of five different streets, the intersection of which is located in the center of Streget. In addition, this street is the oldest pedestrian zone. It was officially opened in 1962. Today it is a favorite place that guests of the city certainly visit.
Streget stretched for two kilometers. Almost all the sights of Copenhagen are concentrated on it . These include magnificent old buildings, and beautiful wide squares, and the labyrinths of small streets.
In the center of this unique street is Amagertorv Square. They created it in 1993. At its center was built the Stork Fountain, which by tradition is the meeting place for many residents of the Danish capital. A peculiar annual ritual with the participation of graduates of the obstetric specialty of medical schools takes place in this place. Graduates students dance perky dances around the fountain.
The street intersects in one of its parts with the Latin Quarter. At this place is the Round Tower. It is a university library and a large laboratory. In the same building is the world famous Guinness World Records Museum. Nearby, guests and residents of the capital can visit museums of music, history and erotica.
Sights of our country
What is the longest street in Russia? Few know about it. It is located in Volgograd. Its name is Second Longitudinal. This street is so long that for convenience it was divided into sixteen avenues and individual streets.
The length of the Second Longitudinal is a little over fifty kilometers. This is the length of the entire Volgograd.
Metropolitan streets
The largest and most populous city in Russia is Moscow. Its area exceeds one thousand square kilometers. Only in the period after the revolution of 1917 , the capital grew almost six times. The total length of all the streets of the city is about five thousand kilometers. Every year this figure is increasing more and more.
The longest street in Moscow is Profsoyuznaya. Its length is ten kilometers. Profsoyuznaya Street is located between Ho Chi Minh Square and the Moscow Ring Road. It was built in 1955. Its former name is 4th Cheremushkinskaya. It was renamed Profsoyuznaya Street in 1958. It passes through the territory of the Moscow South-Western Administrative District. At the same time, the street crosses such areas as Yasenevo and Cheryomushki, Teply Stan and Obruchevsky, Konkovo and Akademichesky.