Montreal Botanical Garden (Jardin Botanique), Canada

Montreal Botanical Garden is a popular attraction spot for both residents and foreigner tourists of city of Quebec, Canada. It is located at 4101 Sherbrook Street East just a short subway drive from downtown Montreal, facing Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. This fame garden comprises 180 acres (nearly 75 hectares) of greenery, themed gardens, and green houses beauty. This huge park includes a 9 home golf course with public meeting spaces of 62 acres.

Spectacular View of Montreal Botanical Garden, Canada

These awesome gardens in Botanical Garden Montreal generally open to the public throughout the year and remain beautifully snow-covered between the months of November until about April.

Brother Marie-Victorin dreamed of a garden for tourists and people of Montreal. He was the founder of the Botanical Institute of the University of Montreal in 1920. His dream came in true in 1931, after much planning and lots of fund collections, he opened his dream garden. Brother Marie-Victorin was a religious man having keen interest in science and botany.  He hired people of Montreal’s to work for him and built garden. The architect Lucien F. Keroack designed Art Deco style administration building, while the grounds were designed by Henry Teuscher. Today the garden boasts more than 22000 plants in different varieties with 31 specialized segments which really amaze the visitors. This huge park has much more to surprise tourists.

Chinese Garden:

This garden is built in traditionally Chinese style. This outdoor garden is breathtaking and opened in 1991, inspired by the gardens of Min Dynasty. Due its reputation, it is one of the most popular of all the gardens in Montreal also the largest Chinese garden located outside of China itself. It created with plants, water, stones, and architecture beauty.

Japanese Garden:

Rose Garden

Another beauty of Montreal Boanical Garden complex is Japanese Garden opened in 1988. The traditional art of Japanese landscaping inspired garden contains the similar elements of stone, water, and plants found in Chinese garden. A pavilion welcomes the visitors which pays homage to Japanese culture and art.   

The Rose Garden, the First Nations Garden, the Alpine Garden, and the Leslie Hancock Garden are the other attractions in this huge park. While people who like to see bugs or want tasting insects this park doesn’t disappoint them, visit Insectarium, claiming world most beautiful insects. Durubg visit Jardin Botanique de Montreal it is possible to see some wildlife such as turtles, ducks, or a variety of birds.

The Rose Garden

Attraction in Montreal Botanical Garden Canana

Montreal Underground City, Canada A Unique Tourist Attraction

The one of the biggest tourist attractions in Montreal is the Underground City. It is a complex of hundreds of shops, restaurants also connected to subways, hotels and train stations too.

 Electric Stairs with Non Stop Rush of People

The underground city of Montreal is the largest and unique of its kind in the world, a subterranean pedestrian network spanning 32 kilometers of the city’s downtown core. It is connected with big shopping malls, metro stations, universities, hotels, office buildings and apartments too. The city now known as RÉSO which is homophone of the French word réseau means “network”.

Some Top Quality Restaurants Can Be Seen In Underground City, Montreal, Canada

In start the underground city wasn’t much long but with the passage of time, the underground city faced many modifications and more segments were added to RESO. Today it is span over 20 miles (32 kilometers) of tunnels and covers 4 million square meters. It has 120 exterior access points. Tourists can enjoy visiting here both in summer and winter.

Montreal Underground Corridor

Nearly 500000 people use the Montreal Underground City facilities daily. For their facility there are large maps of RESO on the walls of some of its corridors. Many people use it only for taking a shield themselves from the heat in summer and extreme cold conditions of winter. It is linked up with 10 metro stations, 2 bus terminals, 2 major department stores, over 2000 small stores 1600 housing units, nearly 1200 offices, 200 restaurants, 7 major hotels, 40 movie theaters, 40 banks, also with the University of Quebec at Montreal campus and the University of Montreal, Olympic Park, Place des Arts, a cathedral, the convention center and the Olympic center. Here tourists can find everything from clothing to home ware and electronics items.

There is no one who doesn’t want shopping in Montreal Underground and enjoy this unique experience. Its various sections are different from one another, so if anyone get used to the system for first time, it is easy to determine where you are in the complex.      

Montreal Tower, Olympics Tower, Montreal, Canada

Olympic Tower is a unique feature of the Olympic Stadium multi-purpose stadium) located in city of Montreal, Canada. On clear day the top offers tourists to take a bird eye view of the city, people can enjoy city’s view up to 50 miles from top. Tourists can not only be inspired to an awesome eye view tour of attractive landscape but also 50 mile away Laurentian Mountains, the confluence of waves of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. It is dramatically 45 degree angle bent tower, a highest sloping tower anywhere in the world.  

Montreal Tower Canada

The construction of Montreal Tower was actually started along-with a new stadium for Summer Olympics held in 1976 to provide visitors with a beautiful view of the Olympic area. Unfortunately it took another 10 to 11 years to complete. In 1987 the Tower opened for visitors. It welcomed more than 4 million visitors. The tower is 175 meters tall has the title of the tallest inclined tower in the world, in comparison with Pisa Tower is bent only at 5% on angle.   

What is Funicular?

A View of Funicular or Elevator in Montreal Tower Canada 

One of the top features of the Montreal Tower is riding the funicular to the top. 75 people can take ride into the funicular together. The journey provides tourists spectacular views of city through windows. The funicular travels 6 miles per hour, takes hundred trips and travels over 800 feet or rail daily. The ascent takes less than two minutes to reach top. Travelling with digital camera or camcorder mobile phone can be handy to save awesome memories in pictures and videos. The funicular is the only way that works on a curved structure, allowing the vehicle to stay upright despite the incline.

Tourists can enjoy the visit to Montreal Tower almost all the year but remember it remains close for six weeks from early January through mid of February for its routine maintenance. The tower is open from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm for rest of months.

There is no entry fee for children under age four except elders. The older children, students, and senior citizens can take benefit for especial discount rates.      

Night View of Montreal Tower Canada

View at night can more amaze you than at day light.

Montreal Tower and Biodome are unique attraction in the entire city