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Québec City’s Essential Sights
15 placesQuebec City
Follow a highlight-filled route from Montmorency Falls into the UNESCO-listed heart of Old Québec, taking in river views, landmark fortifications, grand architecture, and the city’s most evocative historic streets and squares.
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Places in this guide
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Parc de la Chute-Montmorency30 metres taller than Niagara Falls 💧 - 2
Place RoyaleCradle of French civilization in America - 3
Notre-Dame-des-VictoiresChamplain's first North American home - 4
Théâtre du Petit ChamplainArtisan heart of Quebec City's oldest quarter 🎭 - 5
Funicular of Old Quebec🚡 The 1996 funicular accident - 6
Château FrontenacConsidered the world's most photographed hotel 📸 - 7
Dufferin TerraceThe slides predated the famous hotel 🛷 - 8
Cathedral Basilica of Notre-Dame de QuébecCanada's oldest church ⛪️ - 9
Hôtel de ville de Québec🏠 The city's temporary home - 10
Morrin CentreQuebec City's first English college was once a prison ⛓️ - 11
Rue Saint-JeanA street's counter-culture renaissance 🎸 - 12
Porte Saint-Louis🧱 The gate almost lost - 13
Citadelle of QuebecThe fortress that faced inward - 14
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec⛓️ A museum's century-old prison - 15
Hôtel du ParlementFacade built as a historical rebuttal
