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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Québec

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Laval University

    Université Laval is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Université Laval traces its roots to the Séminaire de Québec, which was founded by François de Montmorency-Laval in 1663.

    5.8 km · public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Old Quebec

    Old Quebec is a historic neighbourhood of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Comprising the Upper Town and Lower Town, the area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

    400 m · historic neighborhood in Quebec City, Canada, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Colisée de Québec

    Colisée de Québec, known as Colisée Pepsi from 1999–2015, is a defunct multi-purpose arena located in Quebec City, Quebec. It was the home of the Quebec Nordiques from 1972 to 1995, during their time in the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League.

    3.2 km · multi-purpose arena in Quebec City · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec

    The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, abbreviated as MNBAQ, is an art museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The museum is located in National Battlefields Park and is a complex of four buildings.

    1.7 km · art museum in Quebec City, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Centre Vidéotron

    Centre Vidéotron is an indoor arena in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The 18,259-seat arena replaced the old Colisée Pepsi as Quebec City's primary venue for indoor events.

    3.2 km · indoor arena, hockey venue and concert venue in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Notre-Dame Basilica-Cathedral

    The Cathedral Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec is the primatial church and seat of the Archdiocese of Quebec, located at 16, rue de Buade, Quebec City, Quebec. It is the oldest church in Canada and the first to be elevated to the rank of minor basilica, receiving the honor from Pope Pius IX in 1874.

    600 m · Catholic basilica-cathedral in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Parliament Building of Quebec

    The Parliament Building of Quebec is an eight-floor structure in Quebec City, Quebec. It is home to the National Assembly of Quebec.

    400 m · parliament building of Quebec · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Plains of Abraham

    The Plains of Abraham is a historic area within the Battlefields Park in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It was established on 17 March 1908.

    1.5 km · battlefield park in Quebec City, Canada · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Édifice Price

    The Price Building is an 18-floor skyscraper in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Built in 1928–1930 amid controversy for Price Brothers Limited, it is the tallest building in the Old Quebec historical district, as well as one of the oldest skyscrapers in Canada.

    500 m · skyscraper in Quebec City, Canada · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Musée de la civilisation

    The Musée de la civilisation, often directly translated in English-language media outside Quebec as the Museum of Civilization, is a museum located in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It is situated in the historic Old Quebec area near the Saint Lawrence River.

    1 km · Canadian museum (Quebec city) · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Québec

Airports
Quebec Jean Lesage (YQB), 14 km · Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 246 km
Stations
Gare du Palais, 600 m · Port of Quebec, 1.3 km · Sainte-Foy railway station, 9 km
  • Montréal → Québec
    233 km · quickest by road, 4h 21m · C$31–42
  • Ottawa → Québec
    379 km · quickest by air, 6h 12m · C$140–220
  • Hamilton → Québec
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Québec

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Québec. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inCTMA operates a daily cruise-ferry during the summer (and less frequently at other times of the year) from Souris, PEI to Cap-aux-Meules, Quebec.
  • Get inLabrador Marine operates up to three ferries daily from St.
  • Get inBoard a coastal ferry or an Air Labrador aircraft westward from Blanc-Sablon, which stops in various tiny Québec villages on the north side of the Gulf of St.
  • Get inThe plane flies to the end of the main road at Kegaska; the weekly coastal ferry continues westward, eventually arriving in Sept-Îles or Anticosti on its way to Rimouski.
  • Get inThere are various local ferries which cross the Ottawa River from Ontario into Quebec, typically at points (like Cumberland-Masson) where crossing into Québec by bridge would require driving to a larger centre like Ottawa, Hawkesbury or Pembroke, VIA Rail Canada is the federal passenger train operator.

From Wikivoyage: Quebec, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    359 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    703 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    3,213 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,233 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    3,326 km

If you know how people move in Québec – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Québec

  • Quebec Citycapital city of the province of Quebec, Canada800 m
  • Léviscity in Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec, Canada2.7 km
  • Château Frontenacgrand hotel in Quebec City700 m
  • National Bank CupTennis Tournament in Québec City, Canada5.9 km
  • Stadacona16th-century Iroquoian village near present-day Quebec City; origin of the name "Canada"2.6 km
  • Sainte-Pétronillevillage municipality in Quebec, Canada7.5 km