Quebec City is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec.
The city has a population of around 600,000 and the Metropolitan Area has a population of 850,000. It is the twelfth-largest city and the seventh-largest metropolitan area in Canada.
Explorer Samuel de Champlain founded a French settlement here in 1608. Quebec City is one of the oldest European settlements in North America. The walls surrounding Old Quebec are the only fortified city walls remaining in the Americas north of Mexico. The “Historic District of Old Québec was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985.
The Old Quebec historic district pack a lot of historical beautiful places to visit. It is certainly a place to revisit whenever an opportunity arises.
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