Vieux-Montréal
Severed from downtown by the Autoroute Ville-Marie, the gracious
district of Vieux-Montréal was left to decay until the last
couple of decades, when developers stepped in with generally
tasteful renovations that brought colour and vitality back to the
area. The continent's greatest concentration of seventeenth-,
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings has its fair share of
tourists, but it's popular with Montréalers, too - formerly as a
symbolic place to air francophone grievances; more recently as a
spot to while away the hours in a café or restaurant.
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