Have a look why Quebec City was voted the best destination in North America by readers of USA Today. Québec turns into a winter wonderland during the colder months, making it the perfect destination for a snowy vacation getaway.
Québec Bridge
This image of the Quebec Bridge was photographed at 800mm. This image was made from 120 pictures of 36 megapixels. These 1.5 billion pixels depict the state of this “wonder of the world” in 2016. Zoom into the image to reveal fine details.
The Quebec Bridge (Pont de Québec in French) is a road, rail and pedestrian bridge across the lower Saint Lawrence River to the west of Quebec City, and Lévis, Quebec, Canada. The project failed twice, at the cost of 88 lives, and took over 30 years to complete.
The Quebec Bridge is a riveted steel truss structure and is 987 m (3,239 ft) long, 29 m (94 ft) wide, and 104 m (340 ft) high. Cantilever arms 177 m (580 ft) long support a 195 m (640 ft) central structure, for a total span of 549 m (1800 ft), still the longest cantilever bridge span in the world. (It was the all-categories longest span in the world until the Ambassador Bridge was completed in 1929.) It is the easternmost (farthest downstream) complete crossing of the Saint Lawrence.
The Quebec Bridge was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1995.
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St. Louis gate
St. Louis gate was built in 1693. It is located on St. Louis Street and overlooks the west, towards the Heights of Abraham. It is replaced by another, more to the west in 1745. It was demolished and rebuilt in its present form in 1878.
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Come and see the power of the water
Located in Lévis, at just a couple of minutes from Quebec City, the Chutes-de-la-Chaudière are a spectacular sight!
These 35 metre high falls are the last and most impressive jolt of the Chaudière River, flowing on 185 km all the way to the St. Lawrence River. Go for a ride on a bicycle or by foot in the developed trails and cross the 113 metre long suspension footbridge standing 23 metres over the river. Trails and lookout points enhance this exceptional site.
Activities – A bike ride on a 1.5 km bicycle path that is part of the Route verte and the Trans Canada Trail (Difficulty: intermediate to hard)
– Hiking on almost 4.5 km of developed trails lined with interpretation panels (Difficulty: easy to intermediate)
– Fishing (licence is mandatory, no sale on site)
– Playing area for kids
– PicnicAccess
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The Chateau St. Louis in Quebec City was the official residence of the French Governor of New France and later the British Governor of Quebec, the Governor-General of British North America, and the Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada.
The site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2002.
It is the historic site that certainly worth a visit.
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For additional information about this site, go the page of Saint-Louis Forts and Châteaux National Historic Site of Canada.
In a building dating from 1848, The 3 Brewers are ready to welcome you in a 450 seats restaurant. Upstairs, there is an impressive ceiling height of 24 feet which highlights beams, brick walls and wooden planks of the original roof. To take full advantage of the summer, a magnificent terrace with 180 places allow you to enjoy your beer in the sun.
Always brewed on site beer Brewers 3 is made traditionally, with fresh and simple ingredients. White, blonde, IPA, brown or amber, let us advise you on the selection offered!
The Ice Hotel is a sculpture in itself. One of my great pleasures is to move around with my 360° gear to capture the annual highlights.
On March 17, 2007, after major renovations at a cost of 23 million started in summer 2004, the Raoul-Jobin Concert Hall is inaugurated. The acoustics of the new hall is then considered, “almost perfect”. Sound insulation to the outside reduces ambient noise to background noise of 20 dB. Through the use of various acoustic techniques, the room allows optimal control (2.2 seconds or less) of the reverb without echo. Renovations however known their share of problems, with costs almost doubled compared to the budget, a fire and a series of lawsuits that have delayed the delivery of this great concert hall.
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The Dîner en Blanc™ is a great gathering of friends who meet once a year in a public place kept secret until the last moment, for dinner.