These seven places are enough for you to discover the intertwining of tradition and modernity
Marie Mansion Observation Deck
If you dare to come up here, you can admire a city in five minutes.
Address: 5 Marie Street, Priceville, Montreal
Tickets: $20 CAD
If you like to study the architecture of the world, you have to hit this place. Located in the heart of Montreal, Marie's Town Square is the work of famous Chinese designer I.M. Pei. It has a large indoor shopping center with nearly 70 boutiques, and it also has a unique observation deck, -, the observation deck at the top of Mary's Town Square.
To enjoy the feeling of being separated from the vastness of the sky by a mirror, it's $20 CAD to buy a ticket for the 46th floor. Construction of the Mary's Town Square building began in 1958 and was completed in 1962. The building, which is the same age as my parents, is 47 stories and 188 meters tall. It remains one of the tallest office buildings in Montreal.
The observation deck on the top floor of the building offers a 360-degree view of Montreal, with panoramic views of the St. Lawrence River and Mount Royal.
LesEnfantsTerribles, a French restaurant and bar on the 44th floor, specializes in local cyber-celebrity cuisine, and the terrace is a must-visit lounge for all of Montreal's hipsters.
The observation deck also has an assortment of giant photo frames behind which you can take as many pictures as you like with the various views of Montreal. With them, the picture of Montreal immediately goes up a few levels!
The 45th floor has interpretive panels and videos corresponding to the buildings seen by each eye, helping everyone see the moving city in a whole new light.
[Montreal Ferris Wheel]
Montreal Eye
Address: 362 Lutte de la Commune, Montreal
I've always thought that having a Ferris Wheel or not is a ranking criterion for a tourist city. If a city has a Ferris wheel, locals often talk about it with pride. There are many world-famous Ferris wheels, from the London Eye to the Singapore Flyer. Some of them are old and romantic, while others are hip and handsome. The Montreal Ferris Wheel is Canada's tallest Ferris wheel, the Grand Ferris Wheel of Montreal (also known as the "Big Ferris Wheel"), which sits nearly 200 feet above sea level in the Bonsecours Basin in Old Montreal.
The city's history is made up of stunning old buildings in Old Montreal. It rises slowly into the air on Montreal's Ferris wheel, as if hopping on a horse-drawn carriage for a tour around Old Town. Your mind is sure to be immersed in the twilight beauty of the Old Port, while slowly settling down to read about the city's new and old.
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The diversity of the streets is what really characterizes this city.
Address: St. Laurent, Quebec
The observation deck and the Ferris wheel help us to see all of Montreal from above. In fact, there's a refreshingly youthful vibe in GENERATE, in addition to retaining the historical feel of the old city, as evidenced by the wall paintings that can be seen everywhere in the city. You can see it in the wall paintings that can be seen everywhere in the city, whether it is the architecture, the interior of the shopping malls, or the decorations of the bars on the street, all of them have been "mixed and matched" by art. Graffiti is alive and well in the city, especially on the north-east side of Mount Royal, down from Lady Victory, in the Duras neighborhood of La Fontaine Park. Just look up and you'll see graffiti work everywhere in a variety of styles and expressions!
Street artists enthusiastically display their talents with bold and creative graffiti murals filled with artist-inspired creations.
Graffiti artists in St. Laurent create giant graffiti in the streets, sending a message of strength to the soul through exaggerated faces or quirky characterizations. This wave of street art from Montreal is on the rise, and street graffiti is growing bigger and bigger.
Montreal street graffiti is one of the city's most celebrated visual arts, so if you're keen on new wave culture and a few strokes every now and then, this place is definitely worth hitting.
Today Montreal is no longer a quaint little town; it has long since grown into a modern city of skyscrapers. Weaving in and out of modern and gothic architecture, you're looking for the Montreal of the young.
Outside of Montreal's art world, it also has an unrivaled prosperity. As one of the Seven Design Cities, it is home to world-class fashion design and mouth-watering cuisine. The modern cityscape is most directly reflected in the scattered skyscrapers, but for some reason the sight of so many of them makes you start imagining Spider-Man.
If you don't have a lot of time to visit a city, you have to get to know Montreal quickly and in depth. In my opinion, there are "shortcuts" to this kind of speed tour.
The Old Port represents and epitomizes Old Montreal. If I have never been to the Old Port, I have never been to Montreal. The Old Port first came to Canada as a French-born fur trading port over 350 years ago. Montreal's Old Town and Old Port are not as clearly demarcated from the New Town as other cities. They can't be separated from the center of the high-rise buildings, which is why everyone says the city's new and old complement each other so well. The Old Town and the Old Port are the concentrated essence of Montreal. If the weather is nice, you can take a leisurely walk through the city center. On one hand, you can see what the CBD of Canada's second largest city looks like. On the other hand, you'll find yourself traveling from the 21st century to the 19th century without even realizing it.
By far, Old Montreal and the Old Port are the top choices for any visitor to the city. The historic buildings in the nearby Old Town are well preserved and it would be fitting to say that this is an open-air museum, as it showcases the city's vivid history and culture.
Every weekend, the bazaar here brings the Old Harbor to life. Old Harbour's most famous attraction, the Clock Tower, is ClocktowerQuay, built in 1922 to honor fallen sailors of World War I. The clock tower is the first of its kind in the city. The view of the St. Lawrence River, the Jacques Cartier Bridge, the Cape of Good Hope on St. Helen's Island, and the Old Harbor and Old Town is breathtaking.
JeanTalonMarket
North American foodie paradise
Address:7070HenriJulienAve,Montreal
Eating habits should be an important aspect of a place's customs. What do Montrealers eat? How do they eat? The most grounded way to find out is to explore the most famous local food market. Jean Talon Market, located in the center of Montreal's Little Italy, is the largest vegetable market in Montreal and the largest in North America. There's a saying that for a foodie, it's worth it to go the distance just for the spoonful of food in your heart. It's worth it to go further!
This very Western-style pastry cabinet is filled with small snacks of various shapes and colors, and there are really too many of them, so if you're not careful, you'll have trouble choosing!
Techno-house in the world's metropolis, the city of projected images
The city of the world's art appreciation, the city of European and American cultural accumulation, the city of classic cleansing modernity ...... Old and new have enough titles for Montreal, but there's another very important piece of its urban character map, and that's technology. Trier is such a city, especially at nightfall, when you find yourself in a dreamlike land ......
(Photo from the website /en/cite-memoire/)
"City Memory" (420MCGILL,BUREAU401,MONTR_AL(QC)H2Y2G1,Canada) Curtain wall slides scattered in the old town's pedestrian alleyways The project, which recreates the footsteps of history, transforms Old Montreal into a giant open-air museum. As night falls, more than 20 video images flash across treetops, walls and floors, inviting passersby to meet the various figures who have left their mark on the city since 1642.
The Jacques-Cartier Bridge (134 PontJacques-Cartier, Montréal, QCH2K4M2, Canada) spans the St. Lawrence River, but not everyone has seen it in its new guise. In 2007, a breathtaking lighting system was used to create an interactive digital light show on the bridge's exterior structural frame, creating a vibrant visual experience. The bridge's lighting design is said to reflect the life, environment and spirit of Montreal itself. The lighting control system uses weather, traffic and tweets [SW1] to collect data from the city, which is then reflected back to Montreal in real time by changing the color and activity of the bridge's lighting, but what I found most surprising was that even a bridge, now tells the story of the city!
If you're looking for Montreal's calling card, you can't go wrong with the Old Town, the Old Port, and the CitiMemoroire. I've heard that the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Montréal (110RueNotre-DameOuest, Montréal, QCH2Y1T2, Canada) is known worldwide for its majesty and grandeur, and now there's "AURA", which uses the magic of light and shadow to give this beauty a new lease on life. Nowadays, each iteration of digital media technology brings different surprises to the audience, I think I have seen too many dazzling and spectacular immersive experience, but when the cathedral into a Pandora's Planet as if Cameron's lens, but still marveled at the wonder of its incomparable! No wonder the multi-media light show is so hard to find! (Tickets for the light show are $25)
When the sacred music started, I couldn't help but be brought to tears. The scenes inside the church were sometimes phantasmagorical, sometimes silver, sometimes golden, sometimes bitterly cold ...... I don't have any more adjectives, when a hundred years of architecture meets technology light and shadow, all the retrospective and prospective a moment enough to fill all the expectant eyes.
The annual "C2Montreal" opens every May in Montreal, Quebec (900René-LévesqueBoulevardOuest,, 21eétage, Montreal, QuebecH3B4A5, Canada) as scheduled. It is said that the world's most creative cowboys are in Montreal for these three days. Interactive and immersive music and dance performances lit up the C2Montreal venue; and at the PHI Center, fans of new technology had another chance to explore virtual reality as art.
Subdued religious rituals give it its plainest dress
Cathedral of Notre Dame de Montréal
Skinny, thicker beauty
Address: 110 RueNotre-DameOuest,Montréal
While Montreal has assumed so many of the "best in North America," this line is definitely heavy. As the largest church in North America, Notre Dame Cathedral in Montreal was mentioned earlier in Light Tech, but it's clear that you've seen it all decked out in its finery and less than it is in its "plain" form.
Celine Dion, who sang "My Heart Will Go On," was married in this church, and Pavarotti once held a solo concert in the cathedral, so Notre Dame's reputation is not to be underestimated. The cathedral's grandeur and opulence, with its blue ceiling and neo-Gothic stained glass, attracts tourists' attention.
Today we have experienced the regret of Notre Dame de Paris, more emphasis on the protection of non-heritage. "Notre Dame Cathedral is also known as the small Notre Dame de Paris", visitors who have not been to Paris, may want to come here to enjoy her charm.
St. Joseph's Cathedral
Faith on the High End
Address: 3800 CheminQueenMary,Montréal
Turn your eyes to the top of Mount Royal, where, again, a religious building, St. Joseph's and Notre Dame Cathedrals are very different in style. Who would have imagined that the tallest building in Montreal would be a church. St. Joseph's Cathedral is 150 meters high, divided into two floors,*** with more than 4,000 seats, and you have to take an elevator to get to the top of the church.
"St. Joseph's Cathedral" has won the admiration of countless people for its grand exterior, exquisite interior carvings, and ___ many fine frescoes and window treatments.
Beyond the solemnity of Notre Dame Cathedral, St. Joseph's Cathedral is more beautiful and romantic, with candles and rose petals lit in plastic cups that remind us of young people courting.
The church also has a "good hand" story: legend has it that Brother Andre had a church in the lamp oil, cured a lot of people suffering from disabilities, and the huge group of crutches in the underground church is a witness, so the church has quite a lot of lack of crutches in the believers. No matter where in the world, religious stories, always so marvelous.
"Meng" budding literary paradigm is the true essence of the museum here
The previously mentioned "thousands of people in front of", in the eyes of different people, a city will show a different pattern, change by it, wisdom by it, simple by it, literary by it. Literary by it. Montreal is often seen as the culmination of three different cultures: New France, England and First Nations. Mr. Gao also said that Montreal is the historical capital of the Maple Leaf Country's deep literacy, and in my eyes, it has just the right amount of literary and refreshing elements.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts