Chaudière-Appalaches
Say hello to Québec’s most beautiful villages
So-named for the rivière Chaudière that crosses it and for the Appalachian foothills in its southern reaches near the Maine border, Chaudière-Appalaches is a fertile garden. The shoreline facing Québec City unfurls a string of some of the most beautiful villages in the province, with watermills, stately manors and ancestral homes bearing witness to three centuries of history.
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Montérégie
Easy getaways close to Montréal
The dominant features of this region dotted with towns, villages and fertile fields are history and food. The Rivière Richelieu that starts in Lake Champlain on the Canada-U.S. border and empties into the St. Lawrence has seen its share of trade, not to mention skirmishes with First Nations and our neighbours to the south. The region has a Cider route that runs the gamut of the local brewers. If wine is more your thing, then the Montérégie Wine route will take you to a number of vineyards. Montérégie boasts the largest number of commercial sugar shacks in Québec: each spring, the rising of the sap signals the start of the feasting.
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Bas-Saint-Laurent
Picturesque villages, scenic byways
Between its Navigators’ and Border tourist routes and its landscape and heritage tours, the Bas-Saint-Laurent region invites you to take your time, whether you’re journeying by car, bike, motorcycle or snowmobile. Discover its numerous mid-river isles, its hundred- year-old lighthouses and its enchanting succession of towns, villages and countryside.
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Lanaudière
Wide-open spaces
We came to hear the music of its hundreds of waterfalls as well as that of its festivals.” Culture, nature, food and adventure: there’s lots of good reasons to head for the hills of Lanaudière! The region also has plenty to please sports buffs and outdoor enthusiasts, with activities for every season.
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Laval
No end of things to do
In 1965, the island of Laval merged its 14 municipalities into a single city. Self-defined as “Urban by nature”, Laval today offers the best of both town and country. Along with superb shopping at mega-malls like Carrefour Laval or Centre Laval, attractions that combine fun with education, and numerous dining destinations, the island is an important centre of agricultural production, with fully 30% of its surface area given over to the activities of some 150 farmers and growers.
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