13 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Montreal
13 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Basilique Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours
400 Rue St-Paul E, Vieux Montreal, Montréal, H2Y 3C9, Canada
Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours is the oldest chapel in Montreal — known as the Sailors' Church because of the ship models hanging from the ceiling, donated by grateful sailors who survived the dangerous transatlantic crossing.
Biodôme de Montréal
4777 Avenue Pierre-de-Coubertin, Montreal
The Biodôme is one of the most unusual natural history museums in the world — a former Olympic cycling velodrome converted into four recreated ecosystems under one roof, where you walk from a tropical rainforest through a Laurentian maple forest to the St.
Biosphère
160 Chemin du Tour-de-l'Île, Île Sainte-Hélène, Montreal
The Biosphère is Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome — a 62-metre-diameter steel lattice sphere built as the United States Pavilion for Expo 67 that has become one of the most recognisable structures in Montreal and one of the most important buildings of the 20th century.
Habitat 67
2600 Av Pierre-Dupuy, St-Jacques, Montréal, H3C 3R6, Canada
Habitat 67 is one of the most important buildings in 20th-century architecture — a residential complex of 354 identical concrete cubes stacked and interlocked in a seemingly random arrangement that creates 146 apartments, each with its own rooftop garden and views in multiple directions.
Marché Atwater
138 Av Atwater, Atwater Market, Montréal, H4C 2G3, Canada
Marché Atwater is Montreal's most beautiful market — an Art Deco brick building on the Lachine Canal that has been the southwest neighbourhood's food hub since 1933.
McGill University
845 Rue Sherbrooke O, La Montagne, Montréal, H3A 0G4, Canada
McGill University is Canada's most prestigious university — founded in 1821 with a bequest from fur trader James McGill, and occupying a campus at the foot of Mount Royal that is one of the most beautiful urban university settings in North America.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1380 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is Canada's most visited art museum and one of the most encyclopaedic collections in North America — 44,000 works spanning five pavilions on both sides of Sherbrooke Street, connected by underground tunnels, covering everything from Old Masters to Inuit art to contemporary installation.
Notre-Dame Basilica
110 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest, Vieux-Montréal, Montreal
Notre-Dame Basilica is the most stunning interior in Canada — a Gothic Revival church whose nave explodes with colour in a way that catches even seasoned travellers off guard.
Old Montreal (Vieux-Montréal)
Rue St-Paul, Ste. Geneviève, Montréal, H9H 1E6, Canada
Old Montreal is the historic heart of the city — a district of cobblestone streets, 17th and 18th-century stone buildings, and horse-drawn calèches that occupies the original site of Ville-Marie, the French mission settlement founded in 1642.
Olympic Stadium & Tower
4545 Av Pierre-de Coubertin, Hochelaga District, Montréal, H1V 0B2, Canada
The Olympic Stadium is Montreal's most controversial building — a 56,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof and an inclined tower designed by French architect Roger Taillibert for the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Pointe-à-Callière Museum
350 Place Royale, Vieux-Montréal, Montreal
Pointe-à-Callière is Montreal's archaeology and history museum — built directly on top of the city's birthplace, the exact spot where Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve founded Ville-Marie in 1642.
Saint Joseph's Oratory
3800 Chemin Queen Mary, Montreal
Saint Joseph's Oratory is the largest church in Canada and the third-largest dome in the world — a massive basilica clinging to the north slope of Mount Royal whose copper dome (recently restored to a gleaming green) is visible from 30 kilometres away and has been the most recognisable feature of Montreal's skyline since its completion in 1967.
Underground City (RÉSO)
Place Ville-Marie, McGill, Montréal, Canada
Montreal's Underground City — officially called RÉSO — is the largest underground complex in the world: 33 kilometres of tunnels connecting 10 metro stations, 2,000 shops, 200 restaurants, 40 banks, 7 major hotels, 2 universities, and several concert and exhibition venues in a climate-controlled network that allows Montrealers to live, work, shop, and be entertained without ever stepping outside during the five months of winter when temperatures regularly drop below minus 20.
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