Canada’s unofficial ‘Cultural Capital’, Montreal is a thriving centre for the arts, with theatre, live music venues, galleries, museums and exhibition spaces cramming its trendy streets. The second largest city in Canada and the largest city in Quebec. French-speaking Montreal (from the French ‘Mont Réal’ or ‘Mount Royal’, the name given to the triple-peaked mountain at the centre of the town) offers a shabby chic alternative to New York City, where ‘downtown’ means ‘all of town’ and there’s never a night without some jazz ditty spilling in sparks out of one of the dusty bars in Old Montreal, or the pithy synth of its world-famous electro dance scene keeping time through the night during the festival season. Trendy is not simply a byword but a veritable moniker for Montreal, a city which combines urban sprawl
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