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Top 10 sights in Quebec City

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   Citadelle of Quebec

   A star-shaped citadel built by the British between 1820 and 1850 on Cap Diamant, still an active army post and the secondary residence of the governor general. The Royal 22e Régiment garrisons it, and the changing of the guard with a regimental goat runs daily in summer.

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   Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec

   The provincial fine arts museum in Battlefields Park, in four linked buildings — three purpose-built and one a former provincial prison, whose cells are kept on one floor. It holds the largest collection of Quebec art anywhere, from Jean Paul Riopelle to Inuit sculpture.

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   Notre-Dame Basilica-Cathedral

   The oldest church in Canada, at 16 rue de Buade, founded in 1647 and rebuilt twice after fire — most recently in 1925. It was the first church outside Europe raised to a minor basilica, in 1874, and four governors of New France and most of Quebec's bishops lie in the crypt.

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   Stadacona

   A St Lawrence Iroquoian village on the site of Quebec City, visited by Jacques Cartier in 1535. Its people used the word kanata for a settlement, which Cartier took for the name of the country.

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   Musée de la civilisation

   A museum by Moshe Safdie opened on 19 October 1988 in the lower town, built around three historic houses with a stone and glass extension between them. Its permanent exhibitions cover Quebec society and the First Nations of the province.

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   Church of Our Lady of Victories, Quebec City

   A small stone church on Place Royale, begun in 1687 on the spot where Champlain built his habitation and finished in 1723. Model ships hang from its ceiling, and it is among the oldest churches in North America.

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   Cathedral of the Holy Trinity

   The Anglican cathedral of Quebec, built in 1804 and the first Anglican cathedral outside the British Isles, modelled on St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. George III sent the communion silver, and a royal pew is still reserved.

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   Plains of Abraham

   The battlefield of 13 September 1759, where the fight that decided the fate of French North America lasted about twenty minutes and killed both commanders. It is now open parkland used for concerts and cross-country skiing, which is a strange afterlife for it.

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   Place Royale

   A square in the lower town on the site of Champlain's 1608 habitation, and therefore where the city began. A bust of Louis XIV stands in the middle, and the stone houses around it were rebuilt to their eighteenth-century state in the 1970s.

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    Fort Charlesbourg Royal

    A National Historic Site at Cap-Rouge where Jacques Cartier established France's first colony in North America in 1541. Scurvy and hostility from the Iroquoians emptied it within two years; its remains were only located in 2005.

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   Ramparts of Quebec City

   A wall 4.6 kilometres long around the western end of Upper Town, and the only surviving fortified city walls in North America north of Mexico. Their planned demolition in the 1870s was stopped by the governor general; a footpath runs the whole circuit.

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   Sainte-Foy

   A city on the St Lawrence west of Old Quebec, amalgamated into Quebec City at the start of 2002 and now part of the Sainte-Foy-Sillery-Cap-Rouge borough. Université Laval's main campus and most of the region's shopping are here.

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   Ursulines of Quebec

   A convent founded in 1639 by Marie de l'Incarnation, and the oldest institution of learning for women in North America. Nuns still live in part of it, a school still operates, and the museum holds the embroidery and gilded altarpieces they made.

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   Cap Diamant

   The cape at the eastern end of the Quebec promontory, where the St Lawrence bends and the Saint-Charles joins it, and the natural fortress that decided where the city went. Cartier took the glittering stone in its cliffs for diamonds; it was quartz.

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   The Battlefields Park

   A national urban park of 108 hectares taking in the Plains of Abraham and the smaller Parc des Braves, established in 1908 for the city's tercentenary. It was almost turned into an industrial site before the campaign to preserve it succeeded.

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   Saint-Romuald

   A district of Lévis on the south shore of the St Lawrence facing Quebec City, an independent town until it merged with Lévis on 1 January 2002. The largest oil refinery in eastern Canada is here.

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   Wolfe-Montcalm Monument

   An obelisk of 1828 in the Governors' Garden behind the Château Frontenac, honouring both commanders killed at the Plains of Abraham — the victor Wolfe and the defeated Montcalm on one monument. It is thought to be the only memorial anywhere to raise a winner and a loser together.

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   Place d’Armes

   A square in Upper Town bounded by Sainte-Anne, Fort, Saint-Louis and rue du Trésor, used as a parade and drill ground under both French and British rule. The Château Frontenac closes one side and street artists work the rue du Trésor alley off it.

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   Place D'Youville

   A square on rue Saint-Jean, one of the oldest streets in Quebec, marking the line between the walled Upper Town and the parliament district. Its outdoor rink and the Capitole theatre of 1903 stand on it.

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    Val-Bélair

    A former city northwest of Quebec at the foot of the Laurentians, amalgamated into Quebec City on 1 January 2002 and now part of the La Haute-Saint-Charles borough. It is largely residential with a military base nearby.

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