Quebec City, Canada

The second best place for a good French immersion abroad program. A fine place to send your cholesterol levels to new heights without eating crap. The English and French battled over this place for a long time...the result is a wall around the old city. The closest thing to a European city in North America...no contest.

european like coolvery cold (november through march is like real winter and october and april are part winter, well for my standards, im from toronto)but it also gets lots of snow and theres some pretty good skiing

Beautiful town...wish I spent more time here.

This place has a European feel and is great to visit. I wish the Quebecois would get the chip off their shoulders.

Contrairement à ce que certains le disent, les habitants de Québec ne détestent pas les anglophones. Le touristes de partout dans le monde sont toujours très bien accueillis dans la vieille capitale. Québec est une belle ville remplie de gens chaleureux!

Quebec City is a magical place. It has a European atmosphere that is incomparable anywhere else in North America. The French ambiance is truely authentic here and it feels very festive. I love the quaint old cobblestone alleyways, galleries and boutiques. Old Quebec feels like a village from another place in time like a storybook. Also worth noting is its acess to Montmorency Falls and skiing at Mont Ste Anne. This place is as enchanting to visit in winter as it is in summer. If your an impatient and hurried person you will probably feel there is only enough to do here for 24 hours. If you have an open mind and embrace the joie de vivre that exists here you could spend several days here and go home with wonderful memories.

Quebec City is like walking in a European city witout having to pay a fortune!

A historic city, yes. Weather bad, people rude and arrogant. They need to take a course in basic courtesy 101.

The only European city in North America.

Can I just point out yes, Quebec City is quite small and yes you can see a lot of it in 24 hrs but there is also a lot to do out side of the city, you can visit Chutes Montmorency or you can visit further afield and try some of the outdoor sports available such as whitewater rafting in summer or skiing in winter - was cityslicker too stupid to visit the tourist information to find this out!!!! And what is this about not going if you don't speak French!! It is a tourist city - EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE speaks English, and everyone is prepared to help, the Quebecois are some of the friendliest people you will meet. Everyone should visit Quebec City, it is full of history and culture and quite frankly (depsite the cold) it is beautiful.

the best city in NA for old european buildings, narrow streets, and the heart of french culture in canada

I went there in winter, and its really cold, but when you dress for it, you can take it okay. Its actually sunnier than many other places in winter too. Avodi using a car there, there are frequent buese on the main trunk lines, 800 and 801, about every 3 to 5 minutes. The rest are so-so. With the dressing of snow, or better yet a now fall of large flakes, its a fairy tale city, like off a Christmas card. Great restaurant choices too, but not cheap. Even if you don't naturally speak French, give it a try, you may have to use a little Collins gem Engoiish-French pocket dictionary, but that makes it fun. If you try to speak French, they will try to speak English, believe me. Some of the people who are down on the Quebecers are to say the least, inflexible. If you haven't seen this city, you're missing out on one of North America's gems, even the United Nations recognizes it as a world heritage city.

How did this god forsaken place ever get rated so highly? I visited there and had seen everything there was to see in less than 24 hours. Aside from the quaint old city section, nothing to capture the imagination. The shops were all boring, no night life to speak of, I just don't get it...

I find it laughable that some of the idiot posters on this page downgrade Quebec City because of its cold climate in Winter (duh: It's Canada, pinhead) and the preponderance of French, which "takes away from its North Americanism." Well, that's like saying, "Stay out of Alaska in Winter if you don't like the cold." What are these people using for brains? Even more idiotic are the anti-French slurs: as Quebec City is the capital of a French speaking Canadian province that is 90% francophone, what did you expect the people to speak, Swedish? Wouldn't it be just as ridiculous to say that the problem with Washington, D.C. is that there's too many English speaking people there? Don't these shovelheads realize that people have been speaking French in Quebec (and in other Canadian provinces, and also in towns and villages in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine) for hundreds of years? How does speaking French "take away" from "North Americanism," whatever that term is supposed to mean? As F... Read more

If you don't speak French, don't go. They hate Anglos!

DON'T go if you aren't fluent in French!!!!

Too many french speaking people, which takes away from it's North Americanism, although it is a taste of history and poor mass transit.

Only go in the winter if you enjoy the bitter cold!!

Everything was a wonderful suprise: beautiful scenery, delicious food, friendly people and lots to see. A wonderful, romantic city.