1893 Beautiful Le Chateau Frontenac Hotel (now a Fairmont brand) was one of the first Grand Canadian Railroad Hotels. It is in the ‘upper’ old town area. Roosevelt and Churchill met here in a secret WWII Conference August 17–24, 1943.
Old homes surround the Joan-of-Arc Garden (Parc Jeanne d’Arc). This is a sunken garden area of the ‘Plains of Abraham’ where British and French fought. Interesting trivia: this garden is where the Canadian National Anthem (O Canada) was first played in 1884.
Joan of Arc
Sainte Anne De Beaupre Shrine (Basilica). We visited a couple weeks before Pope Francis came to speak with the local indigenous peoples/tribes. Tour guide said the whole area around Québec City was getting ready for the visit.
Beautiful ornamental columns and capitals
Artwork and ornamentation everywhere and lots of reference to indigenous peoples
Séminaire de Québec 1663. Oldest educational institution in Canada. Love the simplicity of this entry.
Fresque des Québécois in Old Québec’s Place-Royale. Mural illustrating some history of Old Québec.
Notre-Dame-des-Victoires (Our Lady of Victories). There is a bigger Notre-Dame church on top of the hill. This second, smaller one was allowed for practical reasons because in winter it was too hard for clergy to get down the hill and too hard for invalids to get up the hill.
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