#16 best destination in the world
Jean-Talon Market
- Farmer’s market located in the Little Italy district
- Largest market in Montreal and the largest open-air market in North America
Mount Royal Park
- One of Montreal’s largest greenspaces, built in 1876
Redpath Museum
- Museum of natural history built in 1882
- Houses collections in ethnology, biology, paleontology, and mineralogy/geology
Old Montreal
- Oldest area in the city of Montreal, dating back to New France
- Settled by European Samuel de Champlain in 1605, who set up a fur trading post
- In 1763, the British colonized Canada after the French and Indian War
- Many of the buildings are made of stone due to a ban on wood construction after many devastating fires, due to wooden houses with fireplaces being too close together in 1721
Notre-Dame Basilica
- #23 of the top landmarks in the world
- Regarded as a masterpiece of Gothic Revival architecture
- Unusual for a church, the stained glass windows along the walls of the sanctuary do not depict biblical scenes, but rather scenes from the religious history of Montreal
Habitat 67
- Model community and housing complex built as a pavilion for Expo 67, the World’s Fair held in 1967
Montreal Biosphere
- Museum dedicated to the environment
P’tit Train du Nord
- Trail is built on an old railway line which closed in the late 1980s
Old Quebec
- Historic neighborhood dating back to 1608
- Originally a military and administrative center because of its strategic position on top of Cap Diamant
- Occupied by the British and Catholic clergy after conquest in the upper town
- Occupied by the French in the lower town
- UNESCO World Heritage Site
Costs
Number of Days: 14 days
Best Time To Fly: June-Sept
Airline ticket: $333
Seattle -> Montreal (round trip) = $333
Food: $40/day x 14 days = $560
Rental Car: $59/day x 4 days = $236
Gas: $52
Entertainment: $58
Airbnb: $95/day x 13 days = $1,235
TOTAL: $2,474
