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Place d’Armes
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French colonial soldiers once
used this attractive, grassy
square just north of Fairmont
Le Château Frontenac as a
EXPERIENCE Quebec City today are more congenial.
parade ground, but its uses
Open horse-drawn carriages
wait here to offer visitors a
journey that reveals Old
Quebec in all its charm. In the
center, the Monument de la
Foi commemorates the 300th
anniversary of the 1615 arrival
of Catholic Recollet mission-
aries. On the southwest corner,
next to the fine Anglican
cathedral, lies the grand early
19th-century former Palais de
Justice. The Musée du Fort
(p271) opposite contains a
large scale model of Quebec
City in the 19th century.

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Monastère des down. Today, visitors can see first Huron, Algonquin, and
Ursulines the Saint-Augustin and Sainte- Iroquois dictionaries, for
Famille wings, which date example. Copies are on
 D3 ⌂ Rue Donnacona
§ (418) 694 0694 # Daily from a period of rebuilding display, alongside embroidery
between 1686 and 1721. Once and liturgical clothes from the
In 1639, Mère Marie de surrounded by fruit orchards, 17th to 19th centuries.
l’Incarnation brought the the charming complex has
Ursuline order of nuns to gradually evolved over the
Quebec and oversaw the past four centuries. One of the 11
construction in 1641 of the buildings is North America’s
nunnery, which later burned oldest girls’ school (boys have Hôtel de Ville
been admitted since 2010).  D2 ⌂ 2 Rue des Jardins
Nearly a hundred nuns still § (418) 641 6010 #8:30am–

live and work here, so access 4:30pm daily
is limited. The beautifully
decorated chapel and French This imposing building stands
antiques, including Louis in the heart of the city at the
XIII furniture, scientific western end of the rue de
instruments, paintings, and Buade, a popular gathering
embroideries, are displayed place for Quebec artists
in the Musée des Ursulines offering their wares. Still the
within the monastery. The town hall to the city today, it
museum also tells the story was inaugurated in 1896, and
of the nuns’ educational and built on the site of College des
missionary achievements; Jésuites, a major building in
Mère Marie completed the New France. Its grounds are
the focus for both locals and
visitors: the small park here
holds theater performances
The Monument de la Foi, in the summertime, while in
which towers above the winter it is home to a tradi-
place d’Armes tional outdoor market.

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