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Marché Bonsecours

Address: 350 rue St-Paul Est, Vieux-Montréal, Montréal, QC | Map It
Phone: 514/872-7730
www.marchebonsecours.qc.ca

Bonsecours Market

Category: Historic Districts/Sites
Location: Vieux-Montréal

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Fodor's Review:

You can't buy fruits and vegetables in the Marché Bonsecours anymore, but you can shop for local fashions and crafts in the row of upscale boutiques that fill its main hall, or lunch in one of several restaurants opening onto the Vieux-Port or rue St-Paul. But the Marché is best admired from the outside. Built in the 1840s as the city's main market, it is possibly the most beautifully proportioned neoclassical building in Montréal, with its six cast-iron Doric columns and two rows of meticulously even sashed windows, all topped with a silvery dome. In fact, the Marché was always too elegant to be just a farmers' market. It was also Montréal's premier gathering place for balls and galas, and served as city hall for 25 years. The parliament of Canada even met briefly in the market's upper hall in the late 1800s.