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FEATURED ATTRACTIONS
Basilica of Notre Dame is among the most magnificent
of French-Canadian Churches and is one of the largest
churches in North America. Stained-glass windows
depict religious scenes and the history of the original
parish.
Ile Notre-Dame was the site of Expo 67. The island’s
floral park features rose bushes and annuals. It
includes water-related recreational facilities
in summer and cross-country ski trails and ice-skating
areas in winter. Ile Ste-Helene is
in the middle of the St. Lawrence River. In the
center of the island is Parc Helene-de-Champlain,
a landscaped area with picnic facilities; on
the east end is the amusement park La Ronde.
Montreal
Planetarium features lectures in French
and English, combined with audiovisual presentations,
explore various aspects of astronomy.
Mont-Royal Park is on the summit of Mont-Royal.
The lighted cross at the top commemorates Maisonneuve’s
promise to erect a cross if the colony were spared
during the flood of Dec. 25, 1642. It was first erected
in January 1643. The park offers a panorama of Montreal
and the St. Lawrence River against the backdrop of
New York’s Adirondacks.
Old Montreal is
a 94-acre historic area. Government offices, courthouses,
shipping interests and
the financial district occupy the site of Ville-Marie,
the original settlement. The Old City is best
seen
by walking along Notre-Dame, Bonsecours and
St. Paul.
Olympic Park was
host to the 1976 Summer Olympics and is home to
Montreal’s
National League baseball team, the Expos. A major
highlight of
the park is
the 575-ft. Olympic Tower. An observatory
at the top of the tower offers 50-mile views of
the
Montreal
environs. It is reached by a funicular that
takes visitors to the top via a cable system
along the
side of the building.
St. Joseph’s Oratory
is one of the world’s
largest basilicas and one of the city’s
most important religious shrines. It was
begun in 1924
and completed in 1967. Quebec City Featured Attractions
Le Chateau Frontenac was
built in 1893 in the medieval French style, with
numerous turrets and
verdigris copper roofs. The hotel is an example
of 19th- century Canadian Railway architecture.
The painted ceilings and handsome metalwork of
the banisters in the lobby recall its lavish past.
The Citadel Constructed 1820-52 on the site of
17th –century French defenses, the Citadel
is the official residence of the governor-general
of Canada and remains the largest fortification
in North America garrisoned by regular troops.
Dufferin Terrace next
to le Chateau Frontenac, offers a spectacular view
of Old Lower Town and
the St. Lawrence. An 1898 monument to Samuel
de Champlain is at the north end of the terrace.
From
here one can descend the 180 feet to Place-Royale,
the center of Old Lower Town, via a stairway
of 161 steps or by shuttle service.
Montmorency Falls Park is
at the confluence of the Montmorency and St. Lawrence
rivers. On the
promontory, the park offers a spectacular view
of the 270-ft. falls, the St. Lawrence and the
south shore of Quebec; the falls are 98-ft. higher
than Niagara Falls.
National Battlefields
Park encompasses the Plains of Abraham, where the
armies of Gen. James Wolfe
and the Marquis of Montcalm fought in 1759.
The battle ended with the defeat of Montcalm’s
French forces, the deaths of both generals
and the fall of Quebec.
Parliament Buildings are
surrounded by monument-studded grounds. The 1886
main building, constructed
in French Renaissance style, has niches in
the façade
containing statues of historical figures.
Place-Royale center of Lower Town, was the 1608 site of
Samuel de Champlain’s abitation,
the beginning of French colonization in America.
Despite a ruinous fire in 1682 and numerous
attacks by the British, who finally captured
the city in
1759, the area has been preserved virtually
as it was during the 18th-century; most of
the restored
houses have their original walls.
Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre On
the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre
is
the site
of a shrine that annually attracts more than
a million pilgrims and visitors. Soon after
the first
chapel was built in 1658, miraculous cures
were reported by those who visited the shrine.
* Basilica of Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre was erected
in 1923. It contains the Miraculous Statue
of Ste-Anne
and relics of the saint, including her wrist
bone. The basilica’s architecture has Gothic and
Romanesque features. |
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