Quebec City, Part 2

Ok, as promised: back to Quebec City. Above, I'm looking up from the lower city to the ramparts, with the spring foliage of the trees making things even more colourful. Below, a statue & fountain that presumably has some symbolic importance, but I don't know who it's meant to be; she looks like she might be holding a cornucopia, maybe?


Next, a tiny, old lane, and proof that Classicists can be sexy (if not Classics...) :


A newer little corner in the old city:


And a mural, on the side of one of the newer buildings:


Ruins:


With explanation:


An historic church, Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, erected around 1658 on the site that Samuel de Champlain built his first home in 1608 when he founded the city (making it the first permanent French habitation in North America):


And then, a more modern construction, the world-renowned (ok, probably not!) Funiculaire!


It's just a way to quickly and scenically climb from the lower city to the upper city. But it has "fun" in its very name! So we had to ride on it.


Up, up, up we went...


Looking out at the view...


Until we got to the top, and the Chateau Frontenac (an old, fancy hotel, one of the CN (Canadian National) hotels that were built along the trans-national railroad):


There were more ruins:


I think of fortifications, or maybe another house -- I didn't look for the sign this time. And then, of course, the statue of Champlain:


Just a wee bit triumphal!

After all that wandering, we ended up here for dinner:


Not very quebecois, though it is in a building built in 1797 (I think) that used to be an armoury or some such thing. And it had some nice amenities, of which I sadly couldn't partake:


I still have more pictures, so I think I'll wait until tomorrow for part 3. One last shot from the ramparts as I walked home that evening: