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Montreal Vacation Apartment
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Montreal Downtown 
While in the area, visitors can enjoy eyeing or buying from chic boutiques along Victorian Crescent Street, especially between Sherbrooke Street and de Maisonneuve Boulevard. This area is also loaded with excellent dining choices, with many restaurants situated between de Maisonneuve and Rene-Levesque boulevards.
Continuing east on Sherbrooke Street, natural history aficionados can observe modern and prehistoric animals, rocks, crystals and precious stones at the Redpath Museum on the McGill University campus. The McCord Museum, just east of the University's Roddick Gates, boasts a permanent exhibition entitled Simply Montreal. This eclectic exhibit offers a glimpse of yesteryear, with a selection of First Nations' (American Indian) objects, a collection of photographs, sports equipment, toys and magnificent gowns worn by the who's who of Montreal.
Oscar Wilde once remarked that there are so many churches in Montreal that if you threw a rock in any direction you would probably break a church window. Three of the better known churches are Saint Patrick's Basilica, Christ Church Cathedral and Mary Queen of the World Cathedral (Cathedrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde), all located within a stone's throw of each other and more or less downtown. Christ Church Cathedral stands over Les Promenades de la Cathedrale, an attractive underground shopping complex linked to the Underground City. If the weather proves too inclement for an outdoor stroll, enjoy 30 kilometres (16 miles) of underground shopping and dining facilities. Every day, an estimated 500,000 people pass through this network, which links some 60 buildings and provides access to nearly 2,000 retail outlets.