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Highlights include Artillery Park, Basilica-Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Québec, Château Frontenac, Citadel of Québec, from the outside, Côte de la Montagne, Dufferin Terrace.

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  1. Artillery Park: story on the “Québec City’s Fortified Walls: Gates and the Citadel” route

    Here, one restoration project will make you decide what matters more: a coherent image of the past or traces of its different periods.

  2. Basilica-Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Québec: story on the “Old Québec: From the Cliff to the River” route

    Here, the history of a restored colony leads to the lost burial place of its founder.

  3. Château Frontenac: story on the “Old Québec: From the Cliff to the River” route

    The hotel links the tourist image of the old city with a closed wartime meeting.

  4. Citadel of Québec, from the outside: story on the “Québec City’s Fortified Walls: Gates and the Citadel” route

    Beyond the military ramparts lies a place where the Allies agreed on the rules for secret scientific cooperation.

  5. Côte de la Montagne: story on the “Old Québec: From the Cliff to the River” route

    The descent will explain why the main link between the city’s two levels became a conflict between defense and movement.

  6. Dufferin Terrace: story on the “Old Québec: From the Cliff to the River” route

    This is where the story begins of how the city’s residents adapted the military edge of the cliff for peaceful life.

  7. Esplanade Park: story on the “Québec City’s Fortified Walls: Gates and the Citadel” route

    The military parade ground will reduce a vast imperial campaign to a single line beside a volunteer's surname.

  8. Fontaine de Tourny: story on the “Québec City: Parliament Quarter and the Plains of Abraham” route

    This is where the story begins of how a dismantled urban object found a new place in front of Québec City's main political facade.

  9. Governors’ Promenade: story on the “Québec City’s Fortified Walls: Gates and the Citadel” route

    The final stop concludes the route with a path conceived alongside the rescue of the walls, but built almost a century later.

  10. Grande Allée: story on the “Québec City: Parliament Quarter and the Plains of Abraham” route

    A private mansion adds to the government facades the story of a family building an expensive home at a dangerous moment for its business.

  11. Kent Gate: story on the “Québec City’s Fortified Walls: Gates and the Citadel” route

    These gates were needed to reconcile preserving the wall with a new route through the city.

  12. Martello Tower 1: story on the “Québec City: Parliament Quarter and the Plains of Abraham” route

    The tower will turn the museum’s discussion of war into an examination of a specific decision made without the authorities’ permission.

  13. National Museum of Fine Arts of Québec: story on the “Québec City: Parliament Quarter and the Plains of Abraham” route

    The finale will show how a museum exhibition gave a rejected artist public recognition and changed his standing in his homeland.

  14. Notre-Dame-des-Victoires Church: story on the “Old Québec: From the Cliff to the River” route

    This stop connects the church's name with two attempts to capture Quebec City.

  15. Parliament Building: story on the “Québec City: Parliament Quarter and the Plains of Abraham” route

    This stop presents the parliament not only as a place where laws are passed, but also as a space for personal decisions in moments of attack.

  16. Place d’Armes: story on the “Old Québec: From the Cliff to the River” route

    This stop will show how ordinary townspeople were turned into a reserve for the defense.

  17. Place d’Youville: story on the “Québec City’s Fortified Walls: Gates and the Citadel” route

    Here, the military strip in front of the wall would successively become a residential suburb, a market, and a public square.

  18. Place Royale: story on the “Old Québec: From the Cliff to the River” route

    Here you will see why a symbol of royal power could become an obstacle to the market.

  19. Plains of Abraham Museum: story on the “Québec City: Parliament Quarter and the Plains of Abraham” route

    Here, the name of a famous landscape will connect with several former functions of a single military building.

  20. Promenade des Premiers-Ministres: story on the “Québec City: Parliament Quarter and the Plains of Abraham” route

    Here you will see how an official memorial was altered after its design collided with the everyday life of the street.

  21. Rue du Petit-Champlain: story on the “Old Québec: From the Cliff to the River” route

    The finale will show how the tenants kept the houses and the choice of neighboring shops for themselves.

  22. Saint-Jean Gate: story on the “Québec City’s Fortified Walls: Gates and the Citadel” route

    This stop will show how urban transport first destroyed the old passage and then determined the form of the new one.

  23. Saint-Louis Gate: story on the “Québec City’s Fortified Walls: Gates and the Citadel” route

    Here, the present decorative arch marks the site of a real fort entrance, toward which the defeated army was retreating.

  24. Voltigeurs de Québec Armoury: story on the “Québec City: Parliament Quarter and the Plains of Abraham” route

    This stop is here for the story of what was carried out of the fire and why one closed door decided the archive's fate.