Montreal (page 6)
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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.
Montreal The first, the borough of Ville Marie, comprises the neighborhoods of Old Montreal (typically #1 destination for tourists), Downtown Montreal (typically #2) and a host of somewhat lesser-known areas: Cité Multimédia, Chinatown, Shaughnessy Village, Quartier des Spectacles, Quartier International and Quartier Latin. The second borough, Plateau Mont-Royal, although light on attractions, is a must-visit because, for one, it represents more accurately how most Montrealers really live and, second, because it contains a big proportion of the city's restaurants. Confusingly, the name of the main neighborhood in this borough is Le Plateau Mont-Royal, most often abbreviated to Le Plateau. Besides this namesake, the borough includes the neighborhoods of Mile End and McGill Ghetto.  |
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Knowing that I am now based in Montreal you,
of course, expect me to send in aesthetically pleasing images
of 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...
