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The term rambla is a term that is used to designate those urban spaces that are characterized because they are wide surfaces through which pedestrians can circulate freely due to the lack of automobiles. A boulevard is not a Street or avenue pedestrian, if not that it is a space particularly designed for tourism and that may or may not have stalls and businesses in its surroundings. Some of the best known examples of boulevards are undoubtedly those of the town from Barcelona in Spain, Sea del Plata in Argentina and Montevideo in Uruguay.

A boulevard is one of the most beautiful and attractive urban forms than a city or center urban can have. This is so because the promenade is a wide space in which the circulation free from pedestrians without access to different types of cars. As one of its main purposes is precisely to provide more spectacularity and beauty to the urban layout, the promenade usually contains several elements decorative as well as functional: headlights, seats and benches, bicycle paths, flowerbeds and numerous trees of various kinds that give it color and freshness.

Ramblas can be an intermediate space between two streets (which would be the central space of a large avenue) with vehicular traffic on both sides and with businesses along its length. In addition, the boulevards can be interrupted at the beginning of the transversal streets, allowing the access of motorized vehicles there. These are some of the features from the rambla of Barcelona. However, the boulevards of the coastal cities of Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata or Montevideo are located along the River Or the coast, following its irregular shape. These generally do not have businesses around them but are surrounded by natural elements.