21 Wonders
Radio-Canada has now listed what they (and their listeners) consider to be the 21 wonders of Montreal. Now you get to vote for your favorite.
1- The Mont-Royal
2- The Bottanical Garden
3- The Jacques-Cartier bridge
4- The Olympic Stadium (maybe from far away)
5- The St-Joseph Oratory (nicer from the outside)
6- The Notre-Dame Basilica (nicer from the inside)
7- The old city (Rue de la Commune)
8- Place Ville-Marie (I would prefer the neighboring McGill College street)
9- L’Île de la Visitation (Le site des Moulins, parc de la Visitation)
10- The Jean-Talon Market
11- The view of Montreal at night from the middle of the Champlain Bridge (I love that view)
12- Les Montréalais…
13- The Biodôme
14- Habitat 67
15- The Underground (like we’re gonna vote for a mall)
16- La place Riopelle
17- The Biosphere of Richard Buckminster Fuller
18- The McGill University downtown campus (as long as they exclude the McIntyre)
19- The Lachine Canal
20- Saint-Laurent street and everything around it
21- The Pointe-à-Callière Museum
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It’s so hard to choose! I think my vote goes to the Mont Royal, closely followed by Rue de la Commune.
In case it wasn’t clear, much of my other list was tongue-in-cheek. Of the choices my pick would be the fairly obvious from an outsider/architect’s view.
1. Mont Royal
2. The Old City
3. The Montrealais
4. The Olympic Complex (both the stad and the Biodome)
5. The Jacques Cartier Bridge
6. Bucky’s Biosphere
7. The streetlife of St. Laurent, St. Denis, and St. Catherine
Lastly the honorable mention goes to The Underground City. Yes, it is a mall, but the fact that such a complex network exists is quite a feat.
Howdy!
What I want to know is if La Joute had still been at the Olympic Stadium (thereby making Place Riopelle irrelevant) would it fair better than it is going to?
“5- The St-Joseph Oratory (nicer from the outside)”
You evidently haven’t experienced the Energy found inside!