Montreal Audio Guided Walking Tour 3h15 and 24 Audio Comments

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• Notre-Dame Basilica (Pass by)

  And here is the queen of the square, the Basilica of Our Lady, built from 1824 in this perfect neo-Gothic style. Visited by more than a million people each year, it is the mother church of Montreal, and the largest in the archdiocese.

  Admission ticket free
• Place Royale (Pass by)

  You are now coming to where it all began. The Place Royale attests to human presence for more than 1000 years. Let’s take a quick step back in time and into history.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  You now follow the pleasant promenade of the Old Port of Montreal. This walk by the water offers you a well-deserved nature break.

  Admission ticket free
• Rue St-Paul (Pass by)

  You are now using Rue Saint-Paul. The oldest and richest in the history of Montreal. In 1645, shortly after the founding of Ville-Marie, the route of this street already existed.

  Admission ticket free
• Place Jacques-Cartier (Pass by)

  You are now on Place Jacques Cartier. Before being a small pedestrian square in the heart of Old Montreal, it was here, in 1723, that the castle of Vaudreuil, former residence of the governor of New France, was installed.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  Here you are on Place Vauquelin, framed by two huge administrative buildings of the city. On the left, the old courthouse and on the right, the City Inn.

  Admission ticket free
• Montreal (Pass by)

  Here you are in a prime location to admire the surroundings. The Ferris wheel behind you can of course be a solution to take height and discover the city of Montreal as a whole.

  Admission ticket free
• Montreal Clock Tower (Pass by)

  You can see at the very end of the dock the silhouette of the Clock Tower in the Montreal sky. This tower, built in 1922, is part of the historic heritage of the city.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  With its beautiful silver dome, Bonsecours Point of Sale is another emblem of the city. It is impressive and is even one of the Top 10 most beautiful buildings in Canada listed by the government.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  You certainly find it strange to find yourself face to face with the tower of a bell tower, lost like this, all alone, adjoining the ultra modern buildings of the CHU of Montreal!

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  At the crossroads between Sainte-Catherine Street and Saint-Denis Street, the Latin Quarter of Montreal begins. This visit to the ultra centre does not allow you to visit it, but I advise you to come back and continue Saint-Denis Street to Sherbrooke.

  Admission ticket free
• Rue Ste.-Catherine (Pass by)

  Here you are on Sainte-Catherine Street, Montreal’s most important commercial street. And that’s not much to say! Sainte-Catherine Street is the largest concentration of fashion and ready-to-wear boutiques in the country!

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  You don’t need to have a Bac+5 to understand that you’re coming to Chinatown! The magnificent painted wall and the north arch mark the northern entrance to Montreal’s Chinese Quarter.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  Here you are on Place des Arts, in the heart of Montreal’s entertainment district. This square, dedicated to the dissemination of the performing arts, was created at the instigation of Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau in 1955 to equip the city with modern and world-class infrastructure.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  Now you are standing in front of the beautiful United Church of St. James.It is the second Protestant church in Quebec.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  Now here is Christ Church, which, as its name suggests, is dedicated to Jesus Christ. It is an Anglican church.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  See this beautiful building that makes the angle in front of you. This is the Dominion Square Building, an iconic building in downtown Montreal.

  Admission ticket free
• Sun Life Building (Edifice Sun Life) (Pass by)

  Facing Place Dorchester, this is one of Montreal’s most imposing and perhaps most impressive monuments!!

  Admission ticket free
• Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral (Pass by)

  You arrive, after crossing Canada Place, opposite the impressive Cathedral Mary Queen of the World. You find him a little familiar and that is normal!

  Admission ticket free
• Place Ville-Marie (Pass by)

  You cross the Ville-Marie space. Surrounded by skyscrapers that are reflected in each other’s windows, you feel very small in the middle of this business campus.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  This is St. Patrick’s Basilica, which you can imagine has historical links with the Irish community in the city. In the 1830s, there was a great deal of Irish immigration to Canada.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  You do not dream, you spend well here, a metro mouth straight from the Paris metro. This wrought iron entrance, so emblematic of the French capital, was designed by the art nouveau genius Hector Guimard, at the beginning of the 20th century.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  You enter the parallel world of Montreal, its underground city. Here you are at the World Trade Center, also known as the World Trade Center, which is one of many accesses to RESO, the official name of Montreal’s famous underground network.

  Admission ticket free
• Place d'Armes (Pass by)

  Here you are in the heart of the Ville-Marie district, on the Place d’Armaments. A must-see in Montreal, the Place d’Armaments was built at the end of the 17th century and tells the story of three centuries of architecture.

  Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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