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Le Plateau-Mont-Royal

Le Plateau-Mont-Royal is a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Le Plateau-Mont-Royal is a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Le Plateau-Mont-Royal

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
    McGill University

    McGill University is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter, the university bears the name of James McGill, a Scottish merchant, whose bequest in 1813 established the University of McGill College.

    1.9 km · English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Université de Montréal

    The Université de Montréal is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on Mount Royal near the Outremont Summit, in the borough of Outremont.

    3.6 km · university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Olympic Stadium

    Olympic Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Montreal, Canada, located at Olympic Park in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district of the city. Built in the mid-1970s as the main venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics, it is nicknamed "The Big O", a reference to both its name and to the doughnut-shape of the permanent component of the stadium's roof.

    4.4 km · stadium built for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bell Centre

    Bell Centre, formerly known as Molson Centre, is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Opened on March 16, 1996, it is the home arena of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League, replacing Montreal Forum and it is the largest indoor arena in Canada.

    2.9 km · indoor arena in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Concordia University

    Concordia University is a public English-language research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 with the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the three universities in Quebec where English is the primary language of instruction.

    2.8 km · university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Université du Québec à Montréal

    The Université du Québec à Montréal is a French-language public research university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québec system.

    1.5 km · university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Notre-Dame Basilica

    The Basilica of Our Lady of Montreal, also known as Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal, is a minor basilica of the Catholic Church in the historic Old Montreal district of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. It is located at 110 Notre-Dame Street West, on the corner of Saint Sulpice Street.

    2.4 km · Catholic basilica in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

    The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest art museum in Canada by gallery space.

    2.5 km · art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Saputo Stadium

    Saputo Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium at Olympic Park in the borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The stadium opened on May 21, 2008, and is the current home of CF Montréal.

    4.9 km · soccer stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Mount Royal

    Mount Royal is a mountain in the city of Montreal, immediately west of Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The city's name is derived from its name.

    2 km · hill in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · 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.

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Getting to Le Plateau-Mont-Royal

Airports
Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 14 km · Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 165 km · Quebec Jean Lesage (YQB), 219 km
  • Ottawa → Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
    166 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · C$24–33
  • Quebec → Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
    231 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · C$31–41
  • Hamilton → Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
    14406 km · quickest by air, 29h 27m · NZ$3,140–4,860
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Le Plateau-Mont-Royal

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 Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFerries (navettes) run to and from Île Sainte-Hélène May to October and to the suburb of Longueuil on the south shore.

From Wikivoyage: Montreal/Old Montreal, 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

    409 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    543 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    3,124 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,137 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    3,246 km

If you know how people move in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Le Plateau-Mont-Royal

Le Plateau-Mont-Royal is 2 km from Montréal, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.