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Sure of its charms and just a touch haughty, Québec City’s gracious yet simple style continues to delight its visitors, year after year. The city has everything it takes to please: an enchanting setting on the St. Lawrence, a priceless architectural heritage, a rich and colourful past and, above all, a warm heart bubbling over with the special joie de vivre that has characterized it for four centuries.

Colonial city, contemporary capital

It was here at the base of this natural fortress dubbed the “Gibraltar of America” by Charles Dickens that Samuel de Champlain first established a fur-trading post in 1608. As religious and political institutions sprang up within the fortifications, merchants and craftsmen set up shop alongside the river. A coveted prize that was subject to repeated assault, Québec City eventually fell to the British in 1759, and New France became a subject of the English crown. (more...)

Official tourist site of the Government of Quebec

The Loews Le Concorde Hotel

Situated on the highest point in Québec City at the entrance of the old walled city, the Loews Le Concorde offers unobstructed, majestic views of the St. Lawrence River, Old Québec, and the Plains of Abraham. Its location on Grande Allée - the Champs-Elysées of Québec - is central to many sights, shops, businesses, dining, and museums. And is only a five-minute stroll from the Convention Center.

Loews Le Concorde Hotel web site