Aleksanterinkatu

The Aleksanterinkatu (Swedish: Alexandersgatan, often simply: Aleksi ) is one of the main shopping streets in the city center of Helsinki. It was built like the rest of downtown Carl Ludwig Engel and connects the Senate Square in the west to the Boulevard Mannerheimintie, but also leads eastwards to the sea beach. It was named after the Russian Tsar Alexander I.

Along the road to important economic institutions find such as the headquarters of the Finnish Branch of Nordea Bank, the Finnish World Trade Center and the headquarters of the company Stockmann.

As typical of the Helsinki city center is called to the intensive use of red Finnish granite for paving Aleksanterinkatu and the base of the building. As with some other Helsinki streets also, there are below the Aleksanterinkatu a heating system that keeps clear the road even at temperatures down to -10 ° C of snow and ice. The heat comes from the district heating water flowing off the surrounding buildings.

Traffic

On the road the tram lines run 3, 4 and 7 Otherwise, traffic-calmed her western, more central part and only approved for taxi and delivery traffic. In 2010, a tunnel ( keskustan huoltotunneli ) was completed under the road, to which the residents can build their own terminal, respectively. So to be laid in the tunnel the the whole delivery traffic.