Recently I have made a number of trips to Montreal and it has really helped me to appreciate the city. I went there this past July most recently. The city has an interesting feel. It is a cross between an east coast American city and a European city. It feels distinctly American with its modern skyline and rowhouses. But it has a very European feels in the French Chateau architecture mixed into the row-houses and Vieux Montréal (old Montreal) which was constructed mostly in the 1700s.

 

Here is downtown- aka Centre Ville

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Downtown Movie Theater!

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Montreal does a wonderful job at catering to bikes. Two lane bike paths as like the ones below are all over the city. They find ways all kinds of ways to find room for them including taking away street right of way or placing them on wider sidewalks. Most of the path also have signalized lights which all the bikers seem to follow. Certainly a change from bikers in America.

 

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Bike Valet Parking?

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And of course a city wide bike rental program

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Here are photos from Montreal's version of the Magnificent Mile filled with top of the line clothing stores: This is along Rue St. Catherine

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Saint Philips Square along Rue Saint Catherine. This may be considered the center of downtown Montreal:

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Here is Places de Festivals. It looks like they took over Rue Jeanne Mance which is next to the contemporary Art Museum and turned it into a programing area.

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Christmas in July?

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Montreal's derelict park

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Great shots!  My wife and I were in Montreal this summer as well and loved the city.  I'm looking forward to your next sets.

VERY nice.

My brother and I drove first to Montreal then to Toronto his September.  From Cleveland it was a beautiful drive through upstate NY and Canada, just be prepared for every sign to be in French once you hit Quebec, but nothing a good GPS couldn't handle.  Montreal was absolutely wonderful...loved the view from Mont Royal, which contains a fantastic urban parc much like central park.  It's definitely a large, dense city but with a more human scale than Toronto, which was awesome but also overwhelming.