Canada
Montreal
6 routes
Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0 About Montreal
Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the eighth-largest in North America. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it now takes its name from Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. It lies 196 kilometres (122 mi) east of the national capital, Ottawa, and 258 kilometres (160 mi) southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City.
Read more on Wikipedia · via Wikipedia- Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Itinerary Canada
Montreal in 3 Days
Three well-paced days: the old town and the Lachine Canal, a day on the mountain ending at Saint Joseph's Oratory, and a market-to-bagels walk through Little Italy, Mile End and the Plateau, with the Olympic Park as the swap for a rainy day.
- Duration
- 3 days
- Distance
- 26 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: User Gjm130 on en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk CanadaOld Montreal on Foot: From Place d'Armes to the Clock Tower
A compact half-day through the city's founding streets: the Notre-Dame Basilica, the ruins under Pointe-à-Callière, cobbled Rue Saint-Paul, Place Jacques-Cartier, the sailors' chapel and the river at the Old Port.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Chicoutimi · Public domainTrek CanadaMount Royal: Olmsted's Road to the Cross, the Lake and the Lookout
A long, gentle loop over the mountain that gave Montreal its name: up Frederick Law Olmsted's switchbacks from the Cartier Monument, past the illuminated cross and Beaver Lake, to the Kondiaronk Belvedere and down the stairs into downtown.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Paolo Costa Baldi · CC BY-SA 3.0Attraction CanadaSaint Joseph's Oratory: Canada's Largest Church, Level by Level
Up the pilgrims' stairs and through the shrine a doorkeeper built: Brother André's first chapel, the candlelit Votive Chapel and his tomb, the crypt church, the great Art Deco basilica under the dome and the Way of the Cross garden on the mountainside.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: giggel · CC BY 3.0Attraction CanadaSpace for Life and the Olympic Park: Gardens, Bugs, Ecosystems and Stars
A full day in Montreal's east end: the Botanical Garden and its Chinese and Japanese gardens, the Insectarium, the leaning tower of the 1976 Olympic Stadium, the five ecosystems of the Biodome and a dome show at the Planetarium.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Chicoutimi · Public domainCity walk CanadaThe Plateau and Mile End: Staircases, Smoked Meat and the Bagel Duel
An eating walk through Montreal's most lived-in neighbourhoods: a Victorian square, Parc La Fontaine, streets of twisting outdoor staircases, a smoked-meat sandwich on the Main and a head-to-head of the city's two great bagel bakeries.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy