The Australian
Battlegrounds, beluga and Buffalo Bill
STEP BACK IN TIME
THE historic heart of Old Quebec is a warren of lively streets and ancient fortifications evoking its tumultuous past as a strategic prize in the struggle between England and France for supremacy in North America. The lower town below the city walls is the oldest section, where the explorer Samuel de Champlain founded the city in 1608. The site of his fur trading post is dominated by the Place Royale, a cobbled square surrounded by stone houses with steeply sloping roofs in 18th-century Norman style. A museum on the square has an interesting large-scale model of the city in the 17th century. Look out for an impressive trompe-l’oeil fresco on a nearby building, depicting the city’s history from de Champlain to modern-day hockey players.
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