Mount Royal Park is the main attraction in the city of Montreal especially for those who love to spend the time in nature’s heart . This area was for a long time the home for residents who done a lot of activities in their free time. For the first time the park was opened in 1876 and meant to be a green area where the locals or visitors could practice a lot of interesting activities, taking a deep breath of fresh air. This park was designed also by the famous architect...

   Basilica Notre-Dame of Montreal is a real spectacular landmars that dates from 19th century. The design for this art started in 1824, for creating this basilica was chosen an Irish American architect James O’Donnel, who completed the Christ Churh in Manhattan. It took about 2 years to raise up the walls of the building and the façade up to the base of the towers. In 1827 the framework was completed and the interior of basilica was completed in 1829. This sacred ...

   Place D’Ármes is a very old square which dates since 17th century and relates the Canadian history for a period of 100 years. This place includes all the moments from the past in one unique place, a monument dedicated to those who have founded the city. The most significant thing is that the buildings that surround the Place d’Armes  are dating from diverse eras of time. The first skyscraper of the city was built in 1888, representing a 8 stories buil...

   One of the most beautiful churches in Montreal is the Cathedral Mary, Queen of the World. This cathedral appeared like a small basilica in the Catholical church, after the fire burned the St. Jacques Cathedral. This sacred place is a copy of the St.Peter’s Basilica in Roma, because when bishop of the city in that time decided to built the church he sent Vistor Borgeau to Rome to study the style of basilica from Vatican. The construction started in 1875 and took 20 year...

   Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is the oldest museum in all Canada. When the city of the Montreal was the biggest one in Canada a group of collectors decided to open a place where to show the art collections. They decided to build a building for art exhibition, in a school of art, and they started to earn money to make their plan come true. It took some time to gather sufficient funds to open the first gallery of art. In 1877 the association of the collectors received a importa...

   The Montreal Olympic Tower is the building that gives a spectacular view over the city. This tower was built for the Summer Olympic Games in 1976. It was meant to be a stadium with a great observatory tower that would offer to the spactators a large view over the Olympic area and over the city also. It took more than 10 years untill was completed and was opened to the public in 1987. The Olympic Tower has the tallest inclined tower in  the world, standing at 75 meters t...

   St.Joseph Oratory is a Roman Catholic basilica and the largest church in Canada. This sacred place has a very interesting history. So a very religious man, Andre Bessette was helping all the people who needed his help. So he became a well known person for his caring attitude. In 1904 he  started to built a chapel near the Notre-Dame college where were receiving all the prayers. He told them to pray to St.Joseph because he will hear their illness and will help. Soon Andr...