Montreal
Located in the State of Quebec, it is the second city
in size of Canada and also the second bigger French speaking
city of the world after Paris. It is in an island surrounded
by the St Lawrence and Ottawa rivers and is dominated
by a mountain, Mont-Royal, that rises in the centre of
the large city and lodges a park.
The visit to the city is quite simple, because it’s
distributed by different districts or quartiers. The old
zone is the most attractive. Here is the basilica of Notre
Dame, symbol of the Catholics of this Canadian region.
Closely together it’s the oldest building of the
city: the seminary of St. Surplice, constructed in 1685
and with an outstanding 1710 wood clock. The centre of
old Montreal is the Arms square, in whose centre is the
monument to Samuel de Champlain. The street animation
is in the Jacques Cartier square, paved and full of people
occupying the coffee and restaurants terraces. Here it
is the Nelson column, the oldest monument of the locality,
and the City Council building, as well as the castle of
Ramezay, from 1705. The Mont-Royal, located in the downtown,
has several parks and the Beaver lake, in addition to
one of the most important monuments of Montreal: the Oratoire
of St. Joseph, a 152 ms of height church crowned by a
great green cupola, visible from any point of the city.
The central district of Montreal is the one that lodges
most of restaurants, stores and hotels, in addition to
the Fine Arts Museum and the McGill University. In the
Place des Arts are the Maison Neuve and Port-Royal Theatres,
located one upon the other in a pyramidal shape building.
Montreal also has a modern zone that has grown in the
last decades thanks to the celebration of the 1967 Universal
Exhibition and the 1976 Olympic Games. Among other attractions,
is the city underground, a city under the city with stores,
restaurants and connections to take the public transport.
Here are animated streets, specially in winter, when the
snow and the cold dominates the surface. The subway goes
up to the Notre Dame Island, where it is the amusement
park La Ronde. On the other hand, the Olympic park is
a great sport complex constructed in 1976.
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