La Cité-Limoilou
La Cité-Limoilou is the central borough of Quebec City, the oldest, and the most populous, comprising 19.73% of the city's total population. As an administrative division, it is very new, having only been formed on November 1, 2009, from the former boroughs of La Cité and Limoilou.Photo: Khayman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 108,000 residents
- Description: borough of Quebec City, Canada
- Also known as: “La Cite Limoilou”, “La Cite Limoilou, Quebec”, “La Cite Limoilou, Quebec City”, “La Cite-Limoilou”, “La Cite-Limoilou, Quebec”, and “La Cite-Limoilou, Quebec City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palace Station and Musée de la civilisation.
Palace Station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Gare du Palais is a train and bus station in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Its name comes from its proximity to the former location of the Palace of the Intendant of New France.
Musée de la civilisation
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Musée de la civilisation, often directly translated in English-language media outside Quebec as the Museum of Civilization, is a museum located in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Chateau St. Louis
Museum
Photo: Local hero, Public domain.
The Chateau St. Louis in Quebec City was the official residence of the French Governor of New France and later the British Governor of Quebec, the Governor-General of British North America, and the Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lévis and Vanier.
Lévis
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lévis is a city of 149,700 in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite Quebec City. A ferry links Old Quebec with Old Lévis, and two bridges, the Quebec Bridge and the Pierre-Laporte Bridge, connect western Lévis with Quebec City.
Vanier
Suburb
Vanier is a former city in central Quebec, Canada. It was amalgamated into Quebec City in 2002. It is located within the Borough of Les Rivières. Population : 11,504 Fleur de Lys centre commercial, a shopping centre is located in Vanier.
Plains of Abraham
Locality
Photo: NickHam, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Plains of Abraham is a historic area within the Battlefields Park in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It was established on 17 March 1908. The land is the site of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, which took place on 13 September 1759, but hundreds of acres of the fields became used for grazing, housing, and minor industrial structures. Plains of Abraham is situated 3½ km south of La Cité-Limoilou.
La Cité-Limoilou
- Categories: borough and administrative sector
- Location: Quebec City, Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, Canada, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“La Cité-Limoilou” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المدينة ليموالو”
- Armenian: “Լա Սիտե-Լիմուալու”
- Catalan: “La Cité-Limoilou”
- Danish: “La Cité-Limoilou”
- Dutch: “La Cité-Limoilou”
- Esperanto: “La Cité-Limoilou”
- Esperanto: “La Cité”
- Esperanto: “Limoilou”
- French: “1er arrondissement de Québec”
- French: “6e arrondissement de Québec”
- French: “Centre-Ville de Quebec”
- French: “Centre-Ville de Québec”
- French: “La Cité-Limoilou”
- French: “La Cité–Limoilou”
- French: “La Cite”
- French: “La Cité”
- French: “Limoilou”
- Galician: “La Cité-Limoilou”
- German: “La Cité-Limoilou”
- Irish: “La Cité-Limoilou”
- Polish: “La Cité-Limoilou”
- Polish: “La Cité–Limoilou”
- Russian: “Ла Сите-Лимуалу”
- Slovenian: “La Cité-Limoilou”
- Ukrainian: “Ла Сіте-Лімуалу”
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