Fodor's Expert Review King's Square and King Street

Laid out in a Union Jack pattern, King's Square is a green refuge in the heart of the city, with a number of monuments and a two-story bandstand that hosts summer concerts. The mass of metal on the ground in the northeast corner is actually a great lump of melted tools from a neighboring hardware store that burned down in Saint John's Great Fire of 1877, in which hundreds of buildings were destroyed. It's a great place to picnic on food bought at the City Market across the street, but you might not want to linger here after dark. From the west side of the square, King Street, the steepest, shortest main street in Canada, heads down toward the waterfront, with a variety of shops and restaurants along the way.