15 Most Popular Things to do in Montreal

The big wheel of Old Montreal

You have to tell. I remain stunned while my visits to Old Montreal lead me to discover places that, each time, still surprise me. As if places of adventure surfaced without my knowledge. It is not to understand anything because, out of love for Old Montreal, I often appear there.

A few years ago, as I walked slowly along its narrow winding streets or I prefer, when cars are scarce, to walk on the paved lined streets of the center, without knowing since not informed, I arrived in front of her . This majestic of all, it is of her that I speak, the beautiful of these wheels, the same one installed at the edge of the canal leading to the St. Lawrence River.

Still amazed, without further ado, I walked towards the circular monument. How did the information escape me? Still, she was taking the place with all the splendor of her invitation, allowing us to access it to make it a great full turn. I quickly positioned myself in the queue to acquire the access ticket leading to the path of a cabin. Finally secure, the rise in height began immediately.

At the moment, I realized how elevation brings us to the heavens of extraordinary knowledge. The higher the altitude, the more dazzling the surrounding scenery appeared to me. On the one hand, the furrow of a calm and peaceful river, on the other hand the mountains of a royalty with shimmering greenery, not to mention its all, surrounded by the maze of alleys to the promises of adventures and exhilarating discoveries.

To the intensity of our amazed glances, the dazzling part of a metropolis unfolded its attractions to invite us without further delay to proceed to their full discovery.

Ghosts of Old Montreal

Caution ! Reading these few lines remains at your own risk as we tackle the terrifying subjects of the many ghosts of Old Montreal.

Despite their long-standing deaths, to make themselves known or will we say by mere will, the almost mysterious presence of the ghosts of Old Montreal is revealed in splendor. At the end of the completed days, at the first light of the night, by these improvised screens that form the great walls of the buildings of Old Montreal, we reach the appearance of those who shaped the history of the place.

When the dark halos of a dark night cover almost all of Old Montreal, as if rising right from the depths of darkness, appear its ghosts of old times. By their movements and their history, right on the stone of the buildings, these luminous spectra open to us the access to the transcendence of the pages of the time. Despite the surrounding darkness, we can glimpse the depth of their distance from listening to the stories of old and their clothes from distant times.

It is not necessary to be afraid of appearances. Their movements accompanied by the summary of their terrestrial journey by the transmission of your mobile, will allow you to discover these precious legacies which, still today, shape and accompany our daily life.

Who will brave to go until the end of the course …

Bonsecours Market

A market among many others in the metropolis remains the Marché Bonsecours. Montreal is full of places where precious goods and objects are offered to visitors. The Bonsecours Market located near the former convent of the Nuns offers access to a splendid view of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.

In the heart of the market you will discover a part of the splendors that knows how to produce one who has the precious gift of the creative arts, the Artisan. Throughout its central aisle, you will be invited to the appreciation of artistic brilliance that abounds the works to the conceptualization, harmonies perfect to the utility. The compositions presented allow the wire of their orchestration to extract a practical side to allow to associate with the arts of a pure beauty, thus pairing them with efficiency.

You will be happy to discover its charming restaurant and its coffee adapted to the artist hidden in the bottom of each one. The perfect food that will, while refinement, fill the appetite of budding researchers.

To you the discovery of its many treasures.