Old Quebec on foot - Vieux-Québec à pied

Old Quebec on foot - Historical and heritage tours
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Country	Canada
Region	Quebec
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the Old Quebec on foot - Historical and heritage tours is a set of tourist routes in the Quebec region. These numerous tours are offered by various tourism companies in the Quebec City region. These routes and walking tours showcase more than 400 years of history.

Understand

The historic sector of Old Quebec has several tourist attractions, such as monuments, historic sites, parks, etc. All of these attractions are located within walking distance of each other. It is for this fact that many companies offer to visit this UNESCO World Heritage Site. The many historical and heritage circuits are set up to highlight the history and monuments of this historic sector.

Story

The idea of ​​creating a circuit for Old Quebec on foot came from Maude Bonenfant. This lady had already participated in the same kind of walking tour before, but for Old Montreal It was in 2007 that she published a tourist guide on Old Quebec, 112 pages in which 120 tourist attractions are grouped and divided into seven different circuits. In this guide, there are schematic maps to help you find your way around Old Quebec. However, it will not be a great success. This is because of the lack of photographs and colors, unlike the tourist guide made for Old Montreal.

In 2007, the transport company set up an electric bus dedicated to tourists to highlight the historic area of ​​the city. Due to the great success of the previous year, Quebec City decided to introduce eight more electric buses with 20 seats each. In addition, these buses were offered free of charge for a period of two years.

Steps

There are several circuits inside Old Quebec, the two most popular are the interior circuit of the walls, which encompasses the city of Quebec and the borough of the city-Limoilou and the circuit of the Parliament hill and its surroundings. It is also possible to create a circuit. Written attractions are proposals.

To go

Circulate

The Interior Walls Circuit, Quebec City and the Cité-Limoilou borough

This tour is the more complete tour of the two, it takes approximately 3 h to do it in full.

• 46.808762-71.2141781 Quebec Parliament Building  (last updated Nov 2017)
• Parliament Hill
• The Plains of Abraham
• The Cross of Sacrifice, erected in memory of the combatants who died in action during the First World War.
• The statue of François-Xavier Garneau.
• Saint Louis gate
• The monument commemorating the arrival of the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill and the United States President Franklin Roosevelt.
• The Citadel
• The commemorative plaque on US General Richard Montgomery.
• Fortifications of Quebec National Historic Site of Canada
• The residence of the Governor General.
• Sewell House
• The Alley of Poets
• The Jesuit Chapel (possibility of interior visit).
• Kent Gate, one of these gates is still part of the fortifications.
• The Scottish Causeway.
• Morrin College, former prison interior visit available.
• The Morrin Center library is open to everyone.
• St-Andrew's Presbyterian Church (visit possible in summer only)
• The place of the Institut-Canadien, which is also possible to visit.
• The Old Wesley Church
• The hall of the Institut Canadien de Québec (French-Canadian literary society)
• Maple Delights (maple museum, its history, etc.)
• The Parc-de-l ’Artillerie heritage site.
• Place de l'Hotel de Ville, this is where the New France tourist route and Chemin du Roy begin.
• François-de-Laval Animation Center, inside is the Museum of French America and the historic site of the Séminaire de Québec.
• The Bon-Pasteur Museum, the history of women in difficulty in Quebec and the Bon-Pasteur sisters of Quebec.
• The Touchet house
• The Old Port of Quebec.
• Montmorency Park
• The Archdiocese.
• The Prescott Gate.
• The Louis-S building. Saint-Laurent, Quebec information offices of the Parks Canada network
• Rue du Trésor is where French settlers paid their royalties to the Royal Treasury.
• Rue Sainte-Anne is a pedestrian street. The Center Infotouriste de Québec is located on this street.
• The Fort museum
• The Frontenac staircase which leads directly to the bottom of the city.
• The Samuel de Champlain monument
• The Dufferin terrace
• Place Royale.
• The funicular
• Battlefields Park (Plain of Abraham).
• The Frontenac castle
• The place of Arms, during the French regime it was called the main square.
• Maillou house
• Kent House
• The Jacquet house
• The monument of Women
• The Ursuline Monastery
• The Musée des Ursulines de Québec
• The Marie-de-l'Incarnation Parloir
• Our Lady of the Sacred Heart sanctuary
• Chalmers-Wesleys United Church
• The Allaire-Langan house
• The Governors Park

The Parliament Hill Circuit and its surroundings

This second circuit of the Quebec Infotourist Center lasts approximately 2 h.

• The discovery house, very close to the tourist information office and the reception center of the battlefields park (Pleines d'Abraham) where the tour begins.
• The Parc de la Francophonie, nearby a plaque of the 125^e from the Press Gallery of the Quebec Parliament.
• The André-Laurendeau building
• The Adélard-Godbout monument
• The Maurice-Duplessis monument
• The Place of the National Assembly
• The Honoré-Mercier monument.
• The Fontaine de Tourny
• The Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine monument
• The Louis-Joseph-Papineau monument
• The Parliament Building offers guided tours of the National Assembly, the National Assembly Hall, the Legislative Council Chamber, the Presidents' Gallery and the Parliamentarian.
• The Pampile-Le May building
• The Jean-Lesage monument
• The inuksuk, a sculpture erected as a sign of friendship between Quebecers and the Inuit.
• The Robert-Bourassa monument
• The Prime Ministers' promenade
• The René-Lévesque monument.
• The Honoré-Mercier Building is a national historic site.
• The Quebec City Convention Center
• The Marie-Guyart building
• The Observatory of the Capital
• The Great Alley
• The Montcalm monument
• The Charles de Gaulle monument
• The Plains of Abraham (battlefields park)
• The Governors' Walk (Abraham Bus)
• The Gray and Pierre-Dugua-de-mons terraces.
• The Joan of Arc garden
• Martello Tower 1 and Martello Tower 2
• The National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec
• The Krieghoff house
• The Henry-Stuart House.
• The Henry-Stuart House
• The Grand theater of Quebec
• The French-America park
• The Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste
• The Faubourg lift provides access to the lower town
• The Saint-Roch district.

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