The Quebec City was founded in 1608 by French conquerors and was thus, according to St. John's, the second oldest European colony in Canada. Even then it was due to its strategic location in the Valley of St. Lorenz-current and advanced to the capital of the French colony of Canada due to the fertile river valley floor. Quebec today is a top address in Canada among gourmets. Here you can get products that are manufactured according to European art. So, bread is used here not as soft toast, but as a crunchy sweet brown bread. Quebec restaurants the food usually consists of three-course menu with appetizers, as for example Chèvre chaud Terrine or pâté and Magret de canard, foie gras or Riz d'agneau as main courses. In contrast to other provinces in Canada, it is almost a duty to take also sufficient time to fully enjoy the pleasure to to eat in Quebec.
Learn about the local agricultural products of the farmers and take a culinary tour with your rental car through the farm shops of the farms. There, you can buy fresh fruit, meat, maple syrup, and sometimes wine directly from the farmers. Often farmers invite also like you to visit the operation and to taste the products. Many farmers specialize in certain products and you like to share your knowledge about this. Go easy with your hire car in the blue and stop to the wonderful home-made jams, to purchase the freshly baked bread or the delicious smoked fish. The tourist information centre in Quebec offers even suggestions for culinary excursions to the countryside. Try fresh, warm bread, fresh cheese in the dairy, freshly made maple syrup or hot chocolate in one of the many delicatessen. Many areas have set this demand and have set up small speciality shops, where you can buy products for their Andrea Morris French cuisine.
The old town in Quebec is similar to how many old towns in Germany, also with a town wall surrounded. It is located on a hill above the river and is therefore named Haute-Ville. In this upper town you will find the Château Frontenac, the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Québec, the Citadel of Quebec and the 82 m high Édifice price, in which the Prime Minister of the province of Quebec is sitting. The best known building of Quebec is the 1919 completed Québec-bridge. Drive your car on this largest cantilever bridge of the world, which even 1996 has been declared a national monument of Canada. In addition, Quebec for its annual Carnival spectacle is known. In North America, perhaps still the celebrations in New Orleans are comparable.
You can either rent their car hire in Quebec in the city itself, where many different car hire companies have their car hire locations. Or if you are coming by plane, you can take your car directly at the international airport of Jean Lesage, who located about 11 km southwest of Quebec, in reception. You have a wonderful panoramic view also Quebec, if you travel with your rental car to the North in the Laurentians b. mountains. Tourist attractions are the 83.5 M-high Montmercy-waterfall and the Basilique de Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré lying to the South of Quebec.