Old Montreal
Old Montreal is what many visitors come to Montreal for: old cobblestoned streets lined with buildings dating from the 17th through 19th centuries, grand old French restaurants, history museums, and the riverfront Old Port.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Poco a poco, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: historic city center in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Also known as: “arrondissement historique de Montreal”, “arrondissement historique de Montréal”, “Historic Arrondissement of Montreal”, “Historic Borough of Montreal”, “Montreal Heritage Site”, “site patrimonial de Montreal”, “site patrimonial de Montréal”, “Vieux-Montreal”, and “Vieux-Montréal”
Photo: Mickael Pollard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Montreal City Hall and Bell Centre.
Montreal City Hall
Town hall
Photo: Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The five-story Montreal City Hall is the seat of local government in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was designed by architects Henri-Maurice Perrault and Alexander Cowper Hutchison, and built between 1872 and 1878 in the Second Empire style.
Bell Centre
Stadium
Photo: Jimmy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bell Centre, formerly known as Molson Centre, is a multi-purpose arena located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Opened on March 16, 1996, it is the home arena of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League, replacing Montreal Forum and it is the largest indoor arena in Canada.
Notre-Dame Basilica
Church
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The Basílica of Our Lady of Montreal, also known as Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal, is a minor basilica of the Catholic Church in the historic Old Montreal district of Montreal in Quebec, Canada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown Montreal and Quartier Latin-Le Village.
Downtown Montreal
Photo: Poco a poco, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Downtown is the central business district of Montreal, and home to its largest concentration of museums, art galleries and shopping, and to the Mont-Royal Park and Montreal's Chinatown.
Quartier Latin-Le Village
Quartier Latin-Le Village is in Montreal. It contains the Quartier Latin, Le Village, and Sainte-Marie.
South West
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Montreal South West is the area west of downtown, on both sides of the Lachine Canal, bordered by the districts of LaSalle, Verdun and Westmount. It is made up of the neighbourhoods of Petite-Bourgogne-Griffintown, Saint-Henri, Pointe-Saint-Charles, Côte-Saint-Paul and Ville Émard.
Old Montreal
- Categories: sociological neighborhood, old town, quarter, and locality
- Location: Urban agglomeration of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.50337° or 45° 30′ 12″ northLongitude
-73.55745° or 73° 33′ 27″ westElevation
19 metres (62 feet)Open location code
87Q8GC3V+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 965631912OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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Satellite Map
Discover Old Montreal from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Armenian to Turkish—“Old Montreal” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Հին Մոնրեալ”
- Basque: “Vieux-Montréal”
- Chinese: “蒙特利尔老城”
- Dutch: “Old Montreal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مونتريال القديمه”
- Esperanto: “malnova kvartalo de Montrealo”
- Estonian: “Montréali vanalinn”
- French: “arrondissement historique de Montréal”
- French: “Le Vieux-Montréal à pied”
- French: “site patrimonial de Montréal”
- French: “Vieux-Montréal”
- German: “Altstadt von Montreal”
- German: “Old Montreal”
- German: “Vieux-Montreal”
- German: “Vieux-Montréal”
- Hebrew: “מונטריאול/המרכז ההיסטורי”
- Italian: “old Montréal”
- Italian: “Vieux-Montréal”
- Japanese: “オールド・モントリオール”
- Japanese: “モントリオール旧市街”
- Japanese: “旧市街”
- Persian: “مونترآل قدیم”
- Portuguese: “Velha Montreal”
- Portuguese: “Vieux Montreal”
- Portuguese: “Vieux-Montréal”
- Russian: “Старый Монреаль”
- Slovenian: “Old Montreal”
- Slovenian: “Stari Montreal”
- Slovenian: “Vieux-Montréal”
- Slovenian: “zgodovinsko jedro Montreala”
- Spanish: “Viejo Montreal”
- Spanish: “Vieux Montreal”
- Spanish: “Vieux Montréal”
- Spanish: “Vieux-Montreal”
- Spanish: “Vieux-Montréal”
- Swedish: “Gamla Montreal”
- Swedish: “Gamla Montréal”
- Turkish: “Montréal”
- Turkish: “Site patrimonial de Montréal”
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