Montreal is Canada's second largest city, spread over a number of river islands in the province of Quebec. It is a city of ancient mansions and cobbled streets, modern skyscrapers and picturesque parks.
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How to get
Montreal is served by two international airports: Montréal Trudeau Airport, 21 km from the center and Mirabel Airport - 43 km. The city can also be reached by train, bus or ferry - along the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers.
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Montreal Airport
The international airport named after Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport is located to the west of the city center on the expressway No.20. The airport is served by all major Canadian and American airlines, including Air Canada, Air Transat and WestJet.
The airport runs several daily transatlantic flights from London, Amsterdam, Paris, Geneva, Zurich, Athens, Doha, Frankfurt, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, Munich and Casablanca (among others). The road from the city center to the airport can take more than an hour depending on traffic.
The climate of Montreal is
Overcast -3 ° С in the day -15 ° С at night ° С water |
Cloudy, light snow -2 ° С in the day -6 ° С at night ° С water |
Clearly -9 ° С in the day -16 ° С at night ° С water |
| Montreal Weather Forecast for 10 days | ||
| Average monthly temperature, ° C | ||||||||||||
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| in the daytime | -6 | -5 | + 2 | + 11 | + 19 | + 24 | + 26 | + 25 | + 20 | + 13 | + 5 | -4 |
| night | -16 | -14 | -7 | + 0 | + 7 | + 12 | + 15 | + 14 | + 9 | + 3 | -3 | -12 |
The climate is moderate. Spring - short, and autumn begins already from the middle of August. Winters are snowy, but not very cold, summer is usually long and damp - from mid-June to mid-September, the temperature does not fall below +20 ° C.
The best time to travel is autumn, soft, dry and long.
See also the current weather forecast in Montreal for the next few days.
Transportation: Metro in Montreal
Public transport in Montreal is represented by buses and metro on buses (vibration from which is considered less destructive for buildings nearby) .To date, the metro includes 68 stations on 4 lines, a total length of 65 km .The metropolitan services the northern, eastern and central parts of the island, on which the city of Montreal is located .With the continent, in Longueuil, the city is connected by a yellow line (the shortest, only 3 stations), which also has a stop on St. Helena .Orange line (the busiest) goes to the western part of Montreal - Laval Islands .
Many metro stations are connected by underground passages, forming a real "underground city", in which there are shops, cafes and even several underground theaters near the station "Plaza des Arts" (Place des Arts, where the same concert and exhibition complex is located).
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Shopping and shopping
In Montreal, a lot of huge underground shopping complexes, where the easiest to get from the metro stations. The busiest shopping street is Rue Ste-Catherine ("street of 1000 shops"). On the street Saint-Denis you can find fashion boutiques, and on the streets of Sherbrooke and Mont-Royal - spacious department stores.
Universities of Montreal
Montreal is home to one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Canada, McGill University, recognized as one of the top 20 in the world.
Concordia University (Concordia University) is another English-language university in the city, is the largest east of Toronto with more than 40,000 students. And although Concordia University does not get a medical school and law school, it is still considered a business school of world class, and its arts and science programs are first-class.
University of Quebec in Montreal (Université du Québec à Montreal) and the University of Montréal (Université de Montréal) are designed primarily for French-speaking students. The University of Montreal is the second largest French-speaking university in the world after the Sorbonne in Paris and one of the largest research institutes in Canada. The University of Montreal has two affiliated schools - the School of Mechanical Engineering "Polytechnique Montréa" the business school "HEC Montréal", offering further education in postgraduate study.
University of Laval (Université Laval) and University of Sherbrooke (Université de Sherbrooke) also have their campuses in Montreal.
Entertainment, Excursions and Attractions in Montreal
It is worth visiting the old city, the church Notre-Dame Bonsecours (with the observatory), the cathedral Notre-Dame-de-Montreal, the building of the Windsor railway station (19th century) located on the banks of the St. Lawrence River. You can also visit the botanical garden (Jardin Botanique), where more than 26,000 plants from around the world are collected. In the middle of the St. Lawrence River are the picturesque islands of Saint Helena and Notre Dame. A lot of historical monuments are in the Old Port area.
Museums of the city: archaeological, local history, Museum of Fine Arts and Contemporary Art.
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