Canada, Historic Old Québec – ( I )

Quebec City is indeed worthy of careful taste, especially in the eighteenth century French style is full of the old town, and it is simply a reproduction of European cities that year. Successful colonial four hundred years ago it became the land of the oldest cities in North America. Perhaps it is precisely because the French people moved here four years, they successfully maintained their cultural traditions, to avoid the erosion of Irish culture.

Whether it is the ancient city walls and fortress, whether Petit Champlain, the narrow streets, and the central square in the Upper Town, the ancient battlefield of three hundred years ago, or whether it is only speak French and English service denial shops, both historical museum, or style unique French culture festival, which will give visitors impressed. These impressions are not enjoy elsewhere in North America, and some even do not feel in metropolitan France.

Today's France, I think it might not be a very easy thing to do, to find the style of the eighteenth century and folk. These you will inadvertently taste in many parts of Quebec City. It can be said that Quebec City, it is a people deliberately preserved artifacts. In all cities in Canada, the Quebec City is the most personalized, most cultural characteristics.

Chateau Frontenac - more than a century of iconic symbols

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Chateau Frontenac Hotel is landmarks in Quebec City, but also a symbol of Quebec City. Chateau Frontenac, it may be the world's most photographed hotel. In 1893, Canadian Pacific Railway Company built the European castle type of luxury hotels. The Château Frontenac was named after Louis de Buade, Count of Frontenac, who was governor of the colony of New France from 1672 to 1682 and 1689 to 1698.

Quebec City is divided into Upper Town and Lower Town. Chateau Frontenac hotel is located in Lower Town, it was built in 1893 in the former St. Louis Fort on the foundation of the castle. 
Chateau Frontenac Hotel is an American architect Bruce Price,

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according to France ancient castle style, design and construction. Today, one hundred years later, that sloping roof bronze, and the appearance of red brick facades, still can be said is a symbol of the city.

Chateau Frontenac hotel like a giant standing on a cliff, overlooking the St. Lawrence River and from the ship. That magnificent architectural features, bronze roof and brick red walls, filled with fairy-tale world of temperament, make Chateau Frontenac hotel in Quebec to become the most famous tourist attractions. Standing outside the hotel, from whatever point of

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view, all that is positive to see the Chateau Frontenac hotel, the designer clever idea, I was very amazed.

Chateau Frontenac Hotel, bronze tower on top of it as if into the sky, while the interior still retains traces of a hundred years of history, classical elegance. It is said that, during World War II, Chateau Frontenac Hotel is a famous meeting place for Quebec, British Prime Minister Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister 
Mackenzie King, who together plan for European blueprint after

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World War II.

Outside the Chateau Frontenac hotel is the best viewing platform in Quebec City. Standing on the viewing platform overlooking the entire winding, coiling the St. Lawrence River and the entire Quebec City’s Lower Town, all the scenery glance. Here, I can feel, Quebec city, it really enjoy the beautiful town, with some time to understand it, to believe that Quebec City is North America's most romantic city.

Quebec City fortifications -- Dufferin Terrace

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Dufferin Terrace, it was built in 1838, next to the Saint-Louis Fort, which Champlain erected at the top of the cliff. Nowadays, Stretching from the foot of the Citadelle to Château Frontenac, Dufferin Terrace offers breathtaking views of Île d’Orléans, the St. Lawrence River, the City of Lévis, and Québec City’s Lower Town, making it a perfect spot for taking photos. The 671-metre-long wooden boardwalk is a popular year-round gathering place.