cobblestone street
Old rounded pavement
A cobblestone street is a road paved with rounded stones, typically set in sand or mortar.
Once common in European and colonial American cities, cobblestone streets survive mainly in historic districts, where they're valued for atmosphere despite being rough on vehicles and pedestrians: We wandered the cobblestone streets of the old quarter.
- pavingLaying hard ground cover
- alleyNarrow way between buildings
- lanternEnclosed portable light
- old townCity's preserved original section
- European villageSmall Old World community
cart · horseshoe · uneven · clatter · medieval · Europe · brick · worn · puddle · fog · gas lamp · footsteps · quaint · narrow · archway · marketplace · city center · vintage
- Colonial AmericaGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence
- Old Townmarket square, town square, city gate, main square, city walls
- Old Villagethatched cottage, blacksmith shop, town square, church steeple, timber frame
- ParisEiffel Tower, Louvre, Notre-Dame, Seine, Montmartre
- streetsroad, sidewalk, sidewalks, pavement, alley
- Victorian Englandworkhouse, parlor, drawing room, scullery, manor house
road surface material
cobblestone streetasphalt road
Paved vehicle thoroughfare
blacktop · dirt road · gravel road · superhighway · interstate
cobble, cobbles, cobbled, cobbling, cobblestone, cobblestones, stone, stones, stoned