48 Hours: Marvelous Montreal

When visitors step into the streets of Old Montreal, they feel like they’ve been transported to the shores of a European city, but when they venture beyond the waterfront, they discover a thriving and modern metropolis that is unlike any other in North America. Even though it’s a mostly French-speaking city, visiting Montreal means entering a place where cultures have mixed for hundreds of years, represented in the city’s flag with symbols of France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. The flag has since been updated to include the indigenous people who lived here long before Europeans arrived. More recently, immigrants from around the world have come to enrich the city in lively and exciting ways.