Notre Dame Mascot

To drives to the city of Quebec, almost ten miles. Today is the Party of holy john's the Baptist, a major vacation to Provence Quebec. More than 250,000 people mustered evenings preceding on the Plains of Abraham for a concert and the fireworks posts. The streets in the Old City always were filled with the workers of faatards and sanitary system cleaned the debris left on the part huge.

With the temperature in the ninety took us our numb ones and began on the hike on foot of the old city. The old city, old Quebec, is surrounded by a wall with only some portals to allow the entry. Our first stop was the Chapel of Jesuit incorporated 1817. This is a very simple chapel of which the architect was member of the dynasty of Baillairge. They seem to have conceived most of the churches to Provence Quebec.


Lower in the street, next to the fortifications, is the Park of Artillary, a National Historic Site of Canada. The park has buildings that you can visit. The interesting one more of the Are Reduced it Dauphine. The more bottom two floors was constructed by the French in 1712. The British added a third floor, and the Canadians added a fourth floor when the complex was used as a factory of munitions of 1902 until 1964. The park includes a quarter of the officer and a barracks, that is the building more long constructs by the French in North America. Previously the soldiers were quartered in the houses of civil ones.


Park of Artillary we walked the historic streets to the Cathedral of Lady of Our, the oldest parish To The north of Mexico. Laval of bishop, first diocese bishop traveled most of diocese, that spread itself Newfoundland to New Orleans, THE. To remember that the whole earth alongside the Mississippi was claimed once by France. Through places it is the town Hall and is side issue the Seminary, that became finally it University of Laval.
A current three walks of pad is the luxury hotel, Chateau Frontenac, that dominates the Horizon of Quebec. The tower had not left it the original hotel. When a fire destroyed the old hotel that the tower was constructed and the hotel surrounded it. This seems to be one of the points of convergence of the city. A lot of persons muster themselves around the hotel, maybe because of the numerous parks that it surround.


A walk itself Repent at the bottom of St. Louis brings you to a tree with a canon bullet in its roots, a memory of the fall of Quebec in 1759 under a hail of more than 20,000 bullets of canon.
The street walk is a true pleasure. Although the sidewalks are narrow and the streets climb and down below the hills, the experience is one of is in an eighteenth century a French city.

To change it guard to the Citadel is one must see the event. The Citadel, erected on the original French site in 1820 to avoid the assault of the WORE, is the house of the 23rd Regiment of the Canadian Army. Formed during the First World War, as the only French speaking the Canadian regiment, they saw also the action of fight during Second World War and the Korean opposes itself. To 10:00 o'clock daily they hold to change it traditional of the guard, complete with to walk band and their goat mascotte. Sixteen men, more their officers are on the duty on duty for twenty-four periods of hour. The ceremony takes the minutes of thirty-five and then is followed by a turn of hour of the opportunities.


The fortress is the biggest fortification put in garrison by the uniform troops in North America. The star formed in the conception, the principal defense did facing the river, the canons having a two and a range of 800 meters. While on the turn, the order woman rippled of a window of first one to the group and paraded his puppy of two years, Chelsea. The Citadel neglects the Plains of Abraham, where Montcalm lost the fight to Wolfe. During the fight, the two lost their lives. There is free that two hours guarantor in the fortress walls. The entry is sinueuse and the principal portal is very narrow, the original structure of the fortifications.


We drove the Plains of Abraham. Also is here the free parking lot, the center of the visitor, the museum of fine arts and the beautiful views of the river. Here the cliffs protecting the Old manner of fall of Quebec to the access in slope to the river, perfect the entry for the army to attack.
To drives the passed the summit of Falls of Montmorency. The falls were dammed to exploit electricity. A suspended bridge left people look at at the bottom of the summit and a tram takes passengers of the bottom to the summit and inversely. Since the falls are higher than Niagaras Falls, the usage of the tram is better than climbing the steps.