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A tree tunnel is a road, lane or track where the trees on each side form a more or less continuous canopy overhead, giving the effect of a tunnel.
The effect may be achieved in a formal
File:Brijuni 20180401.jpg,
Istria County , Croatia. File:Tree Tunnel 2.jpg, New Orleans street,
November 2000. File:A tree tunnel - geograph.org.uk - 895804.jpg, Rural tree tunnel,
Norfolk, UK. File:Green Mile Tunnel, Rivne.jpg, Tunnel of Love,
Klevan, Ukraine File:Dülmen, Börnste, Waldweg -- 2015 -- 4649.jpg, Börnste hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany File:Srirampuram tree tunnel.jpg, Tree tunnel in Srirampuram village, Rajamahendravaram, Andhra Pradesh, India
A tree tunnel is a road, lane or track where the trees on each side form a more or less continuous canopy overhead, giving the effect of a tunnel.
The effect may be achieved in a formal avenue
Avenue or Avenues may refer to:
Roads
* Avenue (landscape), traditionally a straight path or road with a line of trees, in the shifted sense a tree line itself, or some of boulevards (also without trees)
* Avenue Road, Bangalore
* Avenue Road, Lon ...
lined with trees or in a more rural setting with randomly placed trees on each side of the route.
The British artist David Hockney has painted tree tunnels as a theme, as especially illustrated at a 2012 solo exhibition of his work at the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...
in London, England.
The English landscape artist Nick Schlee
Nick Schlee (born 1931) is a British artist. He mainly produces landscape paintings.
Life and work
Schlee was born in Weybridge, Surrey. In 1947, he won Gold and Silver medals for under 18s from the Royal Drawing Society. He Matriculation, m ...
has used a tree tunnel as subject matter.
Gallery
Brijuni Islands
The Brijuni () or the Brijuni Islands (also known as the Brionian Islands; same as it, Brioni) are a group of fourteen small islands in the Croatian part of the northern Adriatic Sea, separated from the west coast of the Istrian peninsula ...
,Istria County , Croatia. File:Tree Tunnel 2.jpg, New Orleans street,
November 2000. File:A tree tunnel - geograph.org.uk - 895804.jpg, Rural tree tunnel,
Norfolk, UK. File:Green Mile Tunnel, Rivne.jpg, Tunnel of Love,
Klevan, Ukraine File:Dülmen, Börnste, Waldweg -- 2015 -- 4649.jpg, Börnste hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany File:Srirampuram tree tunnel.jpg, Tree tunnel in Srirampuram village, Rajamahendravaram, Andhra Pradesh, India
See also
* Tunnel of Love (railway), Ukraine * Tunnel of Trees, Michigan, USA * Dark Hedges, County Antrim, Northern Ireland *Sunken lane
A sunken lane (also hollow way or holloway) is a road or track that is significantly lower than the land on either side, not formed by the (recent) engineering of a road cutting but possibly of much greater age.
Various mechanisms have been pro ...
* Vault (architecture)
References
{{reflist Trees Tunnels Road infrastructure Types of thoroughfares