Our visit to Quebec City coincided with the Festival of New France, or more appropriately, Les Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France, celebrating French colonial days and the region's rich French heritage.
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Our visit to Quebec City coincided with the Festival of New France, or more appropriately, Les Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France, celebrating French colonial days and the region's rich French heritage. |
Banner for Les Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France
Hmmm, wonder what's in this patisserie...
Sweet stuff from the patisserie!
More sweet stuff, but this time maple soft-serve ice cream!
Outside the Saint-Louis Gate, one of the gates in the wall surrounding the fortified old city
On the wall, significant since Quebec is the only remaining fortified city in North America.
Enjoying a museum by the Plains of Abraham
Playing "ring around the rosie" in the sunny weather
Festival of New France, Lower Town with Chateau Frontenac in background
Festival street scene in Lower Town, reached by funicular from the Upper Town
Note cobblestone streets and costumed festival participants
Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, the oldest stone church in Quebec
Another shot of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires
Enjoying a stilts walker at the Festival
Boardwalk along cliff in Upper Town
St. Lawrence River as seen from this overlook
A glimpse at the walled fortifications surrounding Quebec City
Great beauty on a beautiful day
Exterior of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Basilica
Saint Anne fountain in front of basilica
At the front entrance to the Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Basilica
Ceiling of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Basilica
Statue, with relic, of Saint Anne
A honey-sweet stop at the Bee Museum
Thousands of bees with no risk of getting stung
Stairs leading to walkway over the falls
Looking down on the Montmorency Falls from a bridge directly over it
Four of us by the base of the falls
