MONTREAL

Montreal, which is now a Canadian industrial center and its largest settlement, the city, where live more than three million people, began its history as a small Indian settlement at the foot of a low (233 meters) Hoshelaga mountains. In 1642 the mountain was renamed in Mont-Royal Hill. The name of the hill gave the name to the city of Montreal, located on the Saint Lawrence River, not far from the place of its confluence with the tributary of Ottawa.

Despite the energy and bubbling life, in Montreal, one of the oldest Canadian cities, preserved many historical monuments and buildings of the ancient architecture. The historic center of town is a web of narrow, cobblestone paved narrow streets, stone buildings with a built-up portico, beautiful modeling and colonnades, countless gift shops with dark from time walls, paintings and pictures hanging everywhere, which show those very streets, monuments, churches.

At the same time in Montreal concentrated many cultural institutions. Here is opened about 30 different museums, ranging from "traditional": such as the Museum of Canadian History, Montreal Museum of Archeology and History, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Decorative Art or Museum of Modern Art, to fairly unusual, such as the Bank of Montreal Museum or Dolls Museum. There is a planetarium in the city and it also has the largest French-Canadian University and the wonderful Botanical Garden, the second largest in the world.

In the city there are 15 bridges, including the famous Jacques Cartier Bridge, across the river of Saint Lawrence and named in honour of one of the founders of the French colonies in North America. The bridge has a length of almost 4.5 km. Montreal - is unusually green city, it has more than 350 parks, the most famous of which is the park Mont-Royal established by American designer Frederick Olmsted, the author of Central Park in New York. Out of numerous hotels you can choose to stay in the hotel Hyatt Regency Montreal It is ideally situated in the heart of the city, has a direct underground access to the conference-center of Montreal, the subway system and the Museum of Modern Art. Historical Center of Montreal, Chinatown and the most fashionable restaurants and shops are located in several steps from the hotel.