Montreal: Audio Guided Walking Tour (3:15 - 24 audio comments)

And here is the queen of the square, the Notre-Dame Basilica, built from 1824 in this perfect neo-Gothic style. Visited by more than a million people each year, it is the mother church of Montreal, and the largest in the archdiocese.

Now you are getting to where it all started. The Place Royale has testified to human presence for over 1000 years. Let's take a quick leap back in time and history.

You are now walking along the pleasant promenade of the Old Port of Montreal. This stroll along the water's edge offers you a well-deserved nature break.

You are now taking Saint-Paul Street. The oldest and richest in history in Montreal. In 1645, shortly after the founding of Ville-Marie, the layout of this street already existed.

You are now on Place Jacques Cartier. Before being a small pedestrian square in the heart of Old Montreal, it was here, in 1723, that the Château de Vaudreuil was located here, the former residence of the governor of New France.

Here you are on Place Vauquelin, surrounded by two huge administrative buildings of the city. On the left, the old courthouse and on the right, the city hall.

Here you are in a great location to admire the surroundings a bit. The Ferris wheel behind you can of course be a solution to gain height and discover the city of Montreal as a whole.

At the very end of the platform, you can see the silhouette of the Clock Tower in the Montreal sky. This tower, built in 1922, is part of the city's historical heritage.

With its beautiful silver dome, the Bonsecours Market is another emblem of the city. It is impressive and is even among the top 10 most beautiful buildings in Canada listed by the government.

You certainly find it strange to find yourself face to face with the bell tower, lost like that, all alone, adjacent to the ultra-modern buildings of the CHU de Montréal!

At the crossroads between Sainte-Catherine Street and Saint-Denis Street, Montreal's Latin Quarter begins. This visit to the ultra-center does not allow you to go and visit it, but I advise you to come back and continue Saint-Denis Street to Sherbrooke.

Here you are on Sainte-Catherine Street, the most important commercial street in Montreal. And that's an understatement! Sainte-Catherine Street represents the largest concentration of fashion and ready-to-wear stores in the country!

You don't need to have a Bac +5 to understand that you are coming to Chinatown! The magnificent painted wall and the north arch mark the northern entrance to Montreal's Chinatown.

Here you are on Place des Arts, in the heart of Montreal's entertainment district. This square, dedicated to the dissemination of the performing arts, was created under the impetus of the mayor of Montreal Jean Drapeau in 1955 to provide the city with modern and internationally renowned infrastructures.

You are now in front of the beautiful Saint-James United Church. It is the second Protestant church in Quebec.

Now here is Christ Church, which, as its name suggests, is dedicated to Jesus Christ. It's an Anglican church.

See this beautiful building that makes the corner in front of you. It is the Dominion Square Building, an emblematic building in the center of Montreal.

Facing Dorchester Square, this is one of the most impressive monuments in Montreal and perhaps the most impressive!

You arrive, after crossing the Place du Canada, in front of the impressive Cathedral of Mary Queen of the World. You find him a little familiar air and that's normal!

You are crossing the Espace Ville-Marie. Surrounded by skyscrapers that are reflected in their mutual windows, you feel very small in the middle of this business campus.

This is Saint Patrick's Basilica, which you can imagine has historic ties to the city's Irish community. In the 1830s, Canada experienced strong Irish immigration.

You are not dreaming, you pass well here, a subway stop straight from the Paris subway. This wrought-iron entrance, so emblematic of the French capital, was designed by the Art Nouveau genius Hector Guimard at the beginning of the 20th century.

You enter the parallel world of Montreal, its underground city. Here, you are at the commercial center of the world, also called the World Trade Center, which is one of the many accesses to the RESO, the official name of Montreal's famous underground network.

Here you are in the heart of the Ville-Marie district, on the Place d'Armes. An essential place in Montreal, the Place d'Armes was built at the end of the 17th century and alone tells the story of three centuries of architecture.