The idea of the artificial urban beach is not entirely new. It’s been a good decade since Parisians were first able to disrobe and flop their sunscreen-lathered selves on the moderately hot sand of Paris-Plages. There are similar projects elsewhere - in Brussels, Shanghai, and Chicago, among other places. For most of the 20th century, though, the sorry state of the waterfronts in major North American cities kind of rendered the whole concept of sunbathing anywhere near them a stunt falling somewhere between the eccentric and the absurd. Fortunately, things are changing...
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Almost 30 years in the making, not even exactly finished, actually, and drawing out not much more than a collective yawn from the local press for its architectural qualities, the new Montreal Symphony Hall (
la Maison symphonique de Montréal) nevertheless opened its doors to a select group of invitees and hosted the inaugural concert on Wednesday...
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Montreal is an island city divided into an ever-shifting number of
boroughs (
arrondissements) - a fact that is all but irrelevant
for most city visitors because, arguably, only two of those boroughs
(
Ville-Marie and
Plateau Mont-Royal)
contain absolute must-visit destinations.
The situation is further muddled by the fact that the political boundaries of
Montreal-the-city do not match the geographical boundaries of Montreal-the-island: there are on-island municipalities that are not considered part of Montreal - at least, not formally. Most of those are suburban in character and their exact administrative status is rather a moot point, but some, like Westmount, are located virtually blocks away from the downtown core.
Plateau Mont Royal
Sud-Ouest
Saint-Henri
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