Montreal : pictures
Montreal : Discover
Canada's second-largest city after Toronto, a dynamic financial, commercial and technological center, a first-rate port on the waterway linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, Montreal is one of the world's great French-speaking cities. It is the only city in the country to have reconciled Old World influences with North American modernity, to have succeeded in bringing together the English-speaking and French-speaking communities that history has long pitted against each other, and to have succeeded in integrating an ethnic mosaic resulting from immigration. It's also an agglomeration of once-distinct towns and villages, and a vibrant cultural metropolis. And the sheer number of events that take place here without a break explains its nickname of "North America's festival capital". Last but not least, Montreal is one of the world's great gourmet destinations, a fact not lost on epicureans.
