Here are a few shots from walks around town.
Cap-Rouge
Cap-Rouge is a former town and now a district within Québec (city). It is located upstream from downtown. It maintained its village ambiance. It was low tide on this rainy morning - the sails were beached, waiting for high tide.
The high structure dominating the neighbourhood is a railroad trestle, called « le Tracel » in french ( « Tracel » is a corruption and adaptation of the original word trestle).
Around the bridges
Pierre-Laporte bridge (cables) and Québec bridge (cantilever) cross the St. Lawrence river. "The Quebec Bridge is a riveted-steel truss structure and is 987 metres (3,238 feet) long, 29 metres (95 ft) wide, and 104 metres (341 ft) high. Cantilever arms 177 metres (581 ft) long support a 195-metre (640 ft) central structure, for a total span of 549 metres (1,801 ft), still the longest cantilever bridge span in the world."
Old Sillery
is another neighbourhood of Québec. It is located on the top of a cliff dominating the St. Lawrence river.
Nearby marina l'Anse-au-Foulon
La maison des Jésuites de Sillery is located on the site of the first church and mission in Sillery (1647). It was built around 1702.
Neighbourhood of Giffard
A view from the heights of les terres des Soeurs de la Charité
A neighbourhood church : Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola
Neighbourhood of Vieux-Beauport
Le Vieux-Beauport (translate Old Beauport) is the heart of a former town which is nowadays part of Québec (city). It was founded in 1634, along the chemin Royal.
The surroundings of the church were in renovation (park around Maison Girardin), hence I could not capture the entire area in my pictures.
Neighbourhood of Saint-Grégoire-de-Montmorency
Saint-Grégoire was also a town eventually amalgamated to the city. It is stuck between the cliffs, a railway and the tidal flats of Beauport bay (St. Lawrence). It is a very much blue collar area, right next to Montmorency falls. It is quite interesting with its narrow urban fabric.
Vieux Port
The old port of Québec, around bassin Louise
Neighbourhood of Saint-Jean-Baptiste
A very popular and vibrant neighbourhood outside of the walled city.
Walking on the edge of Cap Diamant
Québec's upper town is located on a cape. The city is quite hilly.
Walking on the walls
La colline parlementaire
Walking on the walls is an experiment I would recommend anyone visiting the city. It gives awesome perspectives on the historical district, the Québec legislature district, and also grittier areas not often seen.
Redoute Dauphine (redoubt) is a military structure built in 1712 as part of the fortifications. It is sitting right inside the Artillery park, a federal government property and historical sites surrounded by a very much rundown area (les Nouvelles Casernes)
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