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The city is the only walled city north of Mexico still surrounded by its original fortifications — a 4.6-kilometre circuit of stone ramparts and gates containing four centuries of French, British, and Canadian architectural ambition layered on the most strategically important river in the history of North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe colors are the palette of the Quebec winter: the warm amber of gas lamp light on snow-covered cobblestones along the Rue du Petit-Champlain, the deep copper-green of the Château Frontenac's roofline against a pale winter sky, the cream and grey limestone of the Basse-Ville catching the flat December light, and the specific blue of the half-frozen St. Lawrence when ice floes drift past the Terrasse Dufferin in January.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"old-quebec-city-quebec-digital-watercolor-hardboard-coaster","title":"Old Quebec City, Quebec | Original Series Hardboard Coaster | The Painted Passport®","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOLD QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOld Quebec is the only remaining fortified city north of Mexico — a UNESCO World Heritage Site where four hundred years of French colonial architecture, stone ramparts, and cobblestone streets have produced one of the most distinctive urban landscapes in North America. 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The lower town, Basse-Ville, is the oldest commercial district in North America, and the Petit-Champlain quarter — a dense network of narrow streets, stone facades, and iron lanterns — is the most intact seventeenth-century streetscape anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. In winter, when the snow settles on the copper and green rooftops of the Place Royale quarter, the horse-drawn calèches move through the Rue du Petit-Champlain, and the warm light spills from the shop windows and the hotel signs into the cold blue dusk of the Saint Lawrence valley, the city achieves a quality of atmosphere that has no equivalent anywhere else in North America — a street in France, a morning in the eighteenth century, the smell of wood smoke and crêpes and the cold clean air off the river. 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