Montréal architecture
Cosmopolitan metropolis Montréal has an unusual underworld - a series of underground shopping and recreation complexes, linked by walkways and the metro, and centred on Place Ville-Marie. Other architectural highlights include the Biodôme (the former Olympic velodrome, now an exotic indoor zoo), and the fascinating Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Old Montréal
Vieux-Montréal, the historic waterfront section, has been carefully restored and contains many beautiful buildings and gathering places including Place Jacques-Cartier; the former French governor's residence, Château Ramezay; the city's oldest chapel, Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours; and Pointe-à-Callière, the Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History.

Québec City
Old city walls and green copper roofs are the defining characteristics of Québec City. The provincial capital is the only fortified city in North America and is one of the most ‘European' cities on the continent, with a 95% Francophone population. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2008.

Upper Town
While in Québec City, you can wander through the cobblestoned streets and shaded squares of the ‘Upper Town', which has fine 18th- and 19th-century architecture, notably the Place D'Armes and the iconic Fairmont Le Château Frontenac hotel. Energetic tourists climb 310 wooden steps to the Citadel, which affords incredible views across the river. 

Lower Town
Québec City's ‘Lower Town' is a thicket of 17th-century streets centred on Place Royale. For art lovers, the Notre-Dame de Québec Basilica houses a unique collection. 

Gaspé
In the Gaspésie region, highlights include the Rocher Percé ('the pierced rock', a massive, arched sandstone rock rising from the Atlantic), and Gaspésie Provincial Park, which protects herds of caribou in a beautiful landscape of woods, lakes and streams. 

Vikings and geology
The Duplessis region (part of a bigger, largely rural area called the Côte-Nord) is the site of some of the earliest landfalls in the New World, made by the Vikings. The bizarre geological formations of nearby Mingan Archipelago are best explored by boat.

The marvellous Magdalens
Miles of white sandy beaches and a host of unspoilt fishing villages await intrepid travellers in the Magdalen Islands, 215km (134 miles) east of the Gaspé Peninsula in the Gulf of St Lawrence.  

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