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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 visitors because, essentially, only two of them are must-visit destinations.

Borough Ville Marie

This borough contains Montreal's most touristy neighborhoods: Old Montreal, Downtown Montreal, Quartier des Spectacles, and Chinatown, as well as a few lesser-known (but still very central) areas: Quartier International, Cité Multimédia, Shaughnessy Village, and Quartier Latin.

Borough Plateau Mont-Royal

This somewhat more residential borough consists of several distinct neighborhoods including, confusingly, one eponymous with the borough - Le Plateau Mont-Royal (whose name is frequently abbreviated to Le Plateau), as well as Mile End and McGill Ghetto.

Knowing that I am now based in Montreal you, of course, expect me to send in aesthetically pleasing images of the Notre-Dame Basilica, the statue of Admiral Nelson or, should worse come to worse, the Palais des Congrès. And I am just going to be different and difficult, once again...

Read the rest of: "Postcard From Montreal: La Cité


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