This is looking up the Rue Saint-Jean to the Porte Saint-Jean.

Hanging a right from the Rue Saint Jean you go down another street (Cote de la Fabrique) and hit this square where there's a statue commemorating Cardinal Taschereau, who we thought was the Pope from a distance. He was just the first cardinal of Canada. That's the reddish stone steps and pillar on the right. The big gray building across the square is Notre-Dame Cathedral de Québec (oldest parish outside of Mexico!) which is where we stuck our heads in and had the lights go out. Behind the black iron gate is part of the Université Laval. Farther on to the left the sliver of gray building is the historic site of the Québec Seminary. The neat guy in the red shirt was a street performer who saw me with the camera and posed for me.

Turning 180 degrees, you can see the Hôtel de Ville, which also had "City Hall" carved in the stone over the front door. Phew! Finally figured out what that means!

Going along the oh, I think the Rue de Buade (the map gets obscure), along the side of the church, anyway you can stop, look back and finally get the whole of the spire in the picture. You can also see the Hôtel de Ville at the end of the street behind the trees.

Now we're in the Rue Port-Dauphin, which goes along the side of the hill and is lined with cannons that are part of the city's battery defense and which used to be used in attacks. Now you can climb on them, which I thought was absolutely great. The wall on the right encloses more of (depending on which sign you read) the Université Laval or seminary-or a public parking lot.

A cool big cannon up close.

Still fascinated by the cannon-walk. The park on the left is the Parc Montmorency, former site of the archbishop's palace, which burnt down twice before they threw in the towel. There's better picture of that later.

From the outside of the wall, looking up the Cote de la Montagne at the Porte Prescott, which, according to a historic plaque in the park, is actually a sort-of similarly styled version of the original gate that was built in the late 1700s and which was demolished to make way for heavier traffic in the late 1800s. The current one dates all the way back to 1983. That big building in the upper left-hand corner is, according to the writing on it, a post office. There's a picture later, because it had a statue of another guy who looked like he might he a Pope.

Looking down into the Quartier Petit-Champlain which is below the Terrasse Dufferin, and where there are a ton of little shops and cafes. This is getting into Basse-ville or Lower Town, depending on which sign you read (which is really Lower Lower Town, since there's a more recent upper and lower town which is farther west and north). You can see the greenery of the hill that the Citadelle rings.

Now we're at the bottom of everything, in old Lower Québec, in the realm of cobblestones, in the square where I found the apple juice-selling store.

To the right of the previous picture was the rest of the square. Most of the buildings were shops or restaurants.