Basilica of Notre-Dame de Montreal
110 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest, MontréalThe towers of the Notre-Dame de Montreal Basilica, executed in the Neo-Gothic style, served as a reference point for Old Montreal. Today, the building of the first third of the 19th century attracts attention with gold-plated sculptures and gold leafed fleur-de-lyz in the interior. Music connoisseurs say that it is here that one of the largest pipe bodies in the world is located.
St. Joseph's Oratorio
3800 Chemin Queen-Mary Montréal, QC H3VOne of the most famous Montreal churches is St. Joseph's Oratorio. Every year it is visited by 2 million people. Some pilgrims claim that God will hear their prayers, if you climb the steps of the oratorio on your knees. The copper dome of the oratorio is the second largest in the world, second only to the dome of St. Peter's.
Old Montreal
St-Antoine St south to the St Lawrence River, 275 Rue Notre-Dame Est, MontrealOld Montreal is one of those areas that always attracts many tourists. This is the historic center of the city, in which there are museums, restaurants, shops. The houses here are mostly built of gray stone, and the streets are narrow cobblestone pavements.
Bernard Avenue
St-Laurent Boulevard West to Outremont Avenue, 1075-1089 Avenue Bernard, MontrealBernard's Avenue is little known among tourists, but local people like it. It's a pretty noisy street - wide, tree-lined, in a truly Montreal style. Here you can relax in a cozy cafe or have a drink in the bar without a tourist chic parade. A mandatory item in the program of visiting the avenue is lunch at the cafe "Romolo" or "La Piazette" - order a roast or mussels, do not regret it!
Avenue Lurie
Parc Avenue east to St-Denis Street, MontrealAvenue Lurie is one of the most fashionable streets of the French-speaking Montreal. It is famous for its classical local architecture: beautiful stone buildings of the area are decorated with a lot of climbing stairs and countless flower pots.
Avenue Monclend
Avenue de Monkland, MontrealAvenue Monclund is one of the largest streets in Montreal, the Mocland Village shopping center: it's a collection of popular shops, trendy restaurants, open cafes and cozy pubs. The most notable places of rest here are the "Monkland" tavern with excellent cuisine and a truly tourist place - the magnificent "Old Fruit Garden" pub.
McGill University Avenue
Avenue McGill College, MontrealThe avenue, named after McGill University, accommodates a significant part of modern Montreal skyscrapers. Here is founded in 1821 on the money of a local merchant in the fur of James McGill, English-language university.
Dare Dare Gallery
Casier postal 320 Succursale C, MontréalAnother gallery - Dare Dare - is dedicated to beginners. The concept of the gallery: to enable young creative people to realize their boldest ideas. You can say that here they represent those works that, perhaps, would not have dared to take other galleries.
Reproduction art gallery
3913-3945 Rue Saint-Denis, MontrealThis gallery shows reproductions of the most famous paintings in the world. They are strikingly similar to the originals, written in oil and represent an amazing collection of masterpieces of world art exhibited in one place and only slightly falling short of a unique collection.
Three Point Gallery
372 Ste-Catherine Street West, MontrealThe Montreal gallery "Three Points" exhibits works of contemporary art only. Most often exhibited here are experimental artists from Quebec. The most notable recent expositions included works by André Jazenski, Jennifer Cowell, Jean-Marie Martin and Mark Sequin.
House of Sir Georges-Etienne Cartier
458 Notre-Dame Street East, MontrealThe house of Sir George-Etienne Cartier - a kind of guide to the XIX century. It is dedicated to the life of the famous Montreal lawyer, the father of the Confederation and the former Prime Minister of Canada. Visitors to the luxuriously restored mansion-museum are greeted by guides in historical costumes, and children are told in fascinating form about the manners of the two-centuries old.
"Golden Square Mile"
Atwater St east to Peel St, Downtown, MontrealThe area "Golden Square Mile" used to be considered the richest not only in the city, but in all of Canada. It is estimated that several hundred families of this region owned seventy percent of the country's wealth. This explains the predominance of large, massive houses - for example, a mansion with 60 rooms on the Avenue de Pena.
Artekste Information Center
460 rue Staint Catherine West, MontrealThe Artexte Information Center is more like a huge library than an exhibition center. Here is the largest catalog of contemporary art in Canada, consisting of a portfolio of 5,000 artists, all periodicals published in the country, CDs, plus a huge collection of catalogs of exhibitions and other books.
Cemetery of Notre-Dame-de-Nege
4601 Cote-des-Neiges Road, MontrealThe cemetery of Notre-Dame de Nise can also be attributed to the sights of Montreal. This is one of the largest cemeteries in North America: writers, politicians and other celebrities are buried here. For example, Kalik Lavally is the author of the anthem of Canada or Georges-Etienne Cartier, one of the fathers of the confederation.
The world of Maurice Richard
2800 Viau Street, MontrealMaurice "Rocket" Richard, the famous native of Montreal, was one of the most iconic hockey players in the history of the game, and his fame goes beyond the limits of the sport. After the end of his sports career, he became an activist of the separatist movement in Quebec and thereby earned the respect of all Canadians. Hundreds of thousands of people came to his funeral.
Montreal Biodome
4777, Avenue Pierre-de Coubertin, MontrealMontreal Biodome is also a scientific center and ecological zoo, combining four ecosystems from the polar environment to the tropical forest. In the Amphitheater, the Environment demonstrates popular science films, lectures on protecting the environment, maintaining the ecosystem and preserving natural beauty.
Montreal Botanical Garden
4101 Sherbrooke East, MontrealThe Montreal Botanical Garden offers a day stroll through Chinese, French and Japanese parks, and visit the desert. There are over 22 thousand plant species and 10 greenhouses, as well as a huge arboretum.
Montreal Olympic Stadium
4141 Pierre-de-Coubertin Avenue, MontrealThe project of the Olympic Stadium in Montreal from Roger Taylibert by local residents was not very warmly received, and now it is listed as one of the most amazing architectural structures of the city. The arena is a huge ball with a decaying roof. From the inclined tower of the stadium you can see the whole city.
Lafontaine Park
Parc Lafontaine, MontrealPark Lafontaine is located on the plateau of Mont Royal and extends approximately 100 acres. Here you can play tennis, ride a bike, sunbathe, have a picnic and just relax under the trees. In the summer there is an open-air theater, and in the winter the reservoir located here turns into a skating rink.
Park Sitt-de-Havre
Pierre-Dupuy Avenue, MontrealThe park of the Seine-de-Havre was defeated in 1984 to preserve the green zone of Montreal. It offers a beautiful view of the city and the coastline. Here you can have a wonderful time, sunbathing or having a fun picnic with friends. There are tables, barbecue and play areas. The history of the St. Lawrence River and the fairway is described in 12 panels.
Until the middle of the 17th century, Montreal was a small Indian settlement at the foot of Mount Hoshelag. For about three hundred years, the terrain remained untouched by the benefits of civilization, until a Christian mission appeared here, and at the same time renamed the nearest mountain in Mont Royal ("Royal Hill"). It received the name and the city located on the St. Lawrence River.
Today, Montreal is one of the world's largest trade centers, an industrial port, a place where the first Canadian banks and trade companies have appeared, where to this day there are numerous festivals. Previously, in different parts of the city, there were diasporas of different countries - hence the emergence of such cozy places as "Little Italy", etc. Now the population of Montreal is much more homogeneous, but the architecture continues to store stories about former residents, and makes the streets of the megalopolis unrepeatable.
Despite the existence of the so-called Old Town in Montreal, its sights do not concentrate in one place: everyone can find here interesting places to their taste - from museums to art galleries, from churches to amusement parks.
In order to encompass the city, you can go the traditional way, climbing the observation deck of Mount Royal, or prefer a more modern way: climb to the very top of the city's largest skyscraper called "737" in an ultra-high-speed elevator. To whom and this will not be enough - please visit the "twin towers" of the Neo-Gothic church of Notre-Dame de Bonsecourt, where there is not only an observation deck, but also a small observatory for observing the starry spaces.