
Montreal & Quebec City - Downtown (PDF Chapter)
This is the Downtown chapter from Lonely Planet’s Montreal & Quebec City guidebook.
Downtown Montréal’s wide boulevards, glass skyscrapers and shopping galleries give the area a decidedly North American flavor, while numerous green spaces, eye-catching heritage buildings and 19th-century churches add a more European character to the bustling city streets.
- spend a few hours exploring Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, a treasure trove of tradi-tional and contemporary art
- maps
- get your festival freak on at Place des Arts with thousands of others when the jazz festival hits town
- transport
- enjoy quiet time inside one of downtown’s many beautiful historic churches such as Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde
- restaurants & accommodation
Coverage includes: Sights, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping, Sports & Activities.

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