Ontario
It’s the State with greatest tourist activity, specially
by the quantity of American visitors that receives throughout
the year. It has an explosive nature, with more than 400,000
rivers and lakes. The city of Toronto was populated at
a first moment by the French, although were the English
whom, later, took it as a centre for their commercial
activities.
Most of the interesting places are in the downtown, with
their epicentre in the Yonge street, considered the longest
of the world. If this street divides the city between
east and west, the Bloor street does the same thing from
north to south. The crossing of both streets is the animation
point of the Toronto inhabitants.
To the Northwest of this crossing is the Yorkville district,
former centre of the hippie movement that at the moment
has the greater supply of restaurants, commerce and art
galleries. Other of the main streets of the city is Blay,
where are raised the imposing buildings that lodges the
seats of more important banks and companies of the country;
the buildings that stands out are those of the bank of
Montreal with its 72 plants and white marble facade, and
the Royal Bank Seat, with its two triangular towers and
windows varnished with gold bread. Near it is the Theatre
District, of forced visit considering that Toronto is,
after London and New York, the city of the world with
more theatres.
The zone of the port, where is the great Toronto Queen's
Quay, in the marine stroll Harbour-front Centre, is full
of commercial centres, stores, cinemas, sport facilities
and restaurants. From there departs-15 the boats that
make excursions by the rivers and channels that are in
the environs of the city.
Ottawa is the capital of Canada. Nevertheless, it is not
one of the most important cities of the country and it
is not a very usual tourist destiny either. In spite of
everything, it has places of enormous interest. First
of all is the one formed by the Parliament buildings,
of neogothic style and located in the borders of the Ottawa
river. These are three constructions located in a hill,
of which only two can be visited. One of them is the one
that forms the central structure of the set: the Peace
tower, with 92 meters of height and 53 bronze bells.
In downtown is the walk street called Sparks Street Mall,
flood with coffee stores and terraces, and the seat of
the Confederation. Closely together are the Laurier castle,
the Bytown museum and the Rideau channel, that can be
crossed in tourist boats.
In the State of Ontario is the greater tourist attraction
of all Canada: the Niagara Falls. They are at 131 km of
Toronto and are shared with the United States. In the
Canadian zone there’s a museum where everything
that there is to know on this prodigy of the nature is
explained. The Canadian falls forms a curve called Horseshoe
Falls. The way to see the water jump and appreciate it
in all its greatness is from the Maid of the Mists, the
boat that takes the visitors to the tunnels of Table Rock,
on the bottom of the falls.
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