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Roots Earth in Quebec City: audio stories about 45 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 45 places in Quebec City, Canada, in North America. The Quebec City stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Quebec City, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 45 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: quebec-city.md

The 45 places in Quebec City with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Château Frontenac
  2. Old Quebec
  3. Citadelle of Quebec
  4. Dufferin Terrace
  5. Place Royale
  6. Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec
  7. Plains of Abraham
  8. Ramparts of Quebec City
  9. Quartier du Petit Champlain
  10. Parliament Building
  11. Musée de la civilisation
  12. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
  13. Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
  14. Montmorency Falls
  15. Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré
  16. Séminaire de Québec
  17. Monastery of the Ursulines of Quebec
  18. Hôtel-Dieu de Québec
  19. Édifice Price
  20. Morrin Centre
  21. Quebec City Armoury
  22. Gare du Palais
  23. Grand Théâtre de Québec
  24. Quebec Bridge
  25. Bois-de-Coulonge Park
  26. Cartier-Brébeuf National Historic Site
  27. Aquarium du Québec
  28. Vieux-Québec–Cap-Blanc–Colline Parlementaire
  29. Wendake
  30. Université Laval
  31. Saint-Roch
  32. Limoilou
  33. Saint-Sauveur
  34. Sillery
  35. Beauport
  36. Charlesbourg
  37. Mount Hermon Cemetery
  38. Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont
  39. Saint-Jean-Baptiste
  40. Montcalm
  41. Grande Allée
  42. Old Port of Quebec
  43. Avenue Cartier
  44. Cap-Blanc
  45. Royal Battery and Lower Town quays

Is there an audio guide for Château Frontenac?

Yes. Château Frontenac has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 45 Quebec City places in the app, at 46.81194, -71.205. Every one of the other 44 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Quebec City

Open Roots Earth and choose Quebec City. The city has its own map of places with all 45 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 45 places in Quebec City, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 45 places in Quebec City, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Château Frontenac

Coordinates
46.81194, -71.205
In one line
Crowning the cliffs above the Saint Lawrence River, this grand Châteauesque hotel opened in 1893.

2. Old Quebec

Coordinates
46.8128, -71.2066
In one line
Founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608, this fortified colonial heart is the only walled city remaining north of Mexico. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985, it splits between cliff-top Upper Town and riverside Lower Town.

3. Citadelle of Quebec

Coordinates
46.80722, -71.20694
In one line
Built by the British from 1819 to 1832, this star-shaped Vauban-style fortress crowns Cap Diamant. Still an active military base and home of the Royal 22e Régiment, it also serves as a residence of Canada's Governor General.

4. Dufferin Terrace

Coordinates
46.8111, -71.2043
In one line
Inaugurated in 1879 and named for Lord Dufferin, this wide wooden boardwalk runs beneath the Château Frontenac along the cliff edge. Beneath its planks lie the buried remains of the governors' Château Saint-Louis.

5. Place Royale

Coordinates
46.8128, -71.2027
In one line
On the site where Champlain founded his settlement in 1608, this cobblestone Lower Town square is called the cradle of French America. The stone church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, begun in 1688, watches over it.

6. Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec

Coordinates
46.8138, -71.2062
In one line
Canada's oldest church, dating to 1647, with its parish canonically established in 1664, it was the first Catholic parish north of Mexico. It holds a rare Holy Door and a crypt where governors of New France and Quebec's bishops are buried.

7. Plains of Abraham

Coordinates
46.7997, -71.2208
In one line
On this windswept plateau above the Saint Lawrence, British and French armies clashed on September 13, 1759, in the battle that decided the fate of Canada. Generals Wolfe and Montcalm both fell here. The field is now a vast urban park.

8. Ramparts of Quebec City

Coordinates
46.80997, -71.21161
In one line
The only fortified city walls still standing in North America, ringing Old Quebec for roughly 4. 6 kilometres. Rebuilt by French and British engineers across the 18th and 19th centuries, with stone gates and bastions preserved by Lord Dufferin in the 1870s.

9. Quartier du Petit Champlain

Coordinates
46.8089, -71.2035
In one line
A narrow cobblestone quarter at the foot of Cap Diamant, among the oldest commercial streets in North America. Rooted in Champlain's 1608 habitation, its restored colonial houses, boutiques, and the Breakneck Stairs make it the heart of Quebec's Lower Town.

10. Parliament Building

Coordinates
46.80861, -71.21417
In one line
Seat of Quebec's National Assembly, built between 1877 and 1886 in Second Empire style by architect Eugène-Étienne Taché. Its grand facade carries 26 bronze statues of figures who shaped Quebec, with the Fontaine de Tourny playing before its central tower.

11. Musée de la civilisation

Coordinates
46.81511, -71.20238
In one line
A major museum of human history and Quebec society, opened in 1988 in Lower Town near the Saint Lawrence. Designed by architect Moshe Safdie, its bold modern building folds in the 18th-century Maison Estèbe and holds more than 225,000 objects.

12. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec

Coordinates
46.79889, -71.22472
In one line
Founded in 1933, this is home to the largest collection of Quebec art, with more than 40,000 works. Its four pavilions on the Plains of Abraham blend a 1930s Beaux-Arts hall, a former 19th-century prison, and a striking 2016 glass design by OMA.

13. Cathedral of the Holy Trinity

Coordinates
46.8128, -71.2066
In one line
The first Anglican cathedral built outside the British Isles, raised between 1800 and 1804 in elegant Palladian style. Funded by King George III and modelled on London churches, it holds the oldest change-ringing bells in Canada and royal communion silver.

14. Montmorency Falls

Coordinates
46.89083, -71.1475
In one line
A thundering waterfall near Quebec City where the Montmorency River plunges 83 metres into the Saint Lawrence, taller than Niagara. A cable car, clifftop staircases, and a suspension bridge over the brink let visitors take in the cataract from every angle.

15. Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré

Coordinates
47.02417, -70.92833
In one line
A historic pilgrimage shrine, the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré rose in stone after a 1922 fire. Its Neo-Romanesque towers, mosaics, and stained glass draw roughly 500,000 pilgrims each year to honor Saint Anne.

16. Séminaire de Québec

Coordinates
46.81472, -71.20528
In one line
Founded in 1663 by François de Laval, first bishop of New France, the Séminaire de Québec trained generations of clergy and seeded Université Laval. Its 17th-century courtyards and buildings remain one of the colony's great institutions.

17. Monastery of the Ursulines of Quebec

Coordinates
46.81209, -71.20813
In one line
Founded in 1639 by Marie de l'Incarnation and Madame de la Peltrie, the Monastery of the Ursulines was North America's oldest school for girls. Nuns still occupy the original site, where a chapel, museum, and nearly four centuries of teaching endure.

18. Hôtel-Dieu de Québec

Coordinates
46.81521, -71.21063
In one line
Founded by the Duchesse d'Aiguillon and staffed by Augustinian nuns who arrived in 1639, the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec was the first hospital north of Mexico. Its vaulted 1695 cellars and monastery still anchor a working teaching hospital.

19. Édifice Price

Coordinates
46.81308, -71.20814

20. Morrin Centre

Coordinates
46.81291, -71.21056
In one line
Once a military redoubt, then Quebec's first common gaol and later Morrin College, the Morrin Centre now holds a historic English-language library. Since 1868 it has housed the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec in Old Quebec.

21. Quebec City Armoury

Coordinates
46.8063, -71.214
In one line
Designed by Eugène-Étienne Taché and built in the late nineteenth century, the Quebec City Armoury is a Château-style drill hall for Les Voltigeurs de Québec. Gutted by fire in 2008, it was painstakingly rebuilt and reopened in 2018.

22. Gare du Palais

Coordinates
46.8174, -71.2139
In one line
Quebec City's railway and bus terminal opened in 1915, a Châteauesque landmark of copper roofs and turrets designed by H. E. Prindel to echo the nearby Château Frontenac and welcome arriving travellers in grand style.

23. Grand Théâtre de Québec

Coordinates
46.80635, -71.22175
In one line
Opened in 1971 to a design by architect Victor Prus, this modernist performing-arts complex holds two halls and a celebrated Jordi Bonet mural. It is home to Quebec City's symphony orchestra, opera and resident theatre company.

24. Quebec Bridge

Coordinates
46.737, -71.29
In one line
Completed in 1917 after two catastrophic collapses claimed 88 lives, this steel cantilever bridge spans the Saint Lawrence with the longest cantilever span in the world, at 549 metres, linking Quebec City and Lévis.

25. Bois-de-Coulonge Park

Coordinates
46.789, -71.24
In one line
Once the official residence of Quebec's lieutenant governors, this riverside estate became a public park after a 1966 fire destroyed the mansion. Its gardens, arboretum and mature trees overlook the Saint Lawrence near the Plains of Abraham.

26. Cartier-Brébeuf National Historic Site

Coordinates
46.8253, -71.2396
In one line
This riverside site marks where Jacques Cartier and his crew wintered in 1535 and 1536 near the Iroquoian village of Stadacona, and where Jesuit missionaries later settled. Monuments and parkland commemorate this early meeting of peoples.

27. Aquarium du Québec

Coordinates
46.7508, -71.2884
In one line
Opened in 1959 and spread across 16 hectares above the Saint Lawrence, this aquarium houses roughly 10,000 animals from over 300 species, including polar bears, walruses and cold-water marine life of the boreal and Arctic regions.

28. Vieux-Québec–Cap-Blanc–Colline Parlementaire

Coordinates
46.81, -71.21
In one line
This historic district gathers Old Quebec's walled Upper Town and riverside Lower Town with Parliament Hill and Cap-Blanc. Home to about 5,925 residents, it is the city's most visited area and the heart of its heritage.

29. Wendake

Coordinates
46.857, -71.353
In one line
Wendake is the homeland of the Huron-Wendat Nation, an urban reserve north of Quebec City. Settled permanently in 1697, it preserves a National Historic District, a longhouse village, and a living Indigenous culture.

30. Université Laval

Coordinates
46.78, -71.27472
In one line
Université Laval is the oldest French-language university in North America, descended from a seminary founded in 1663 and chartered in 1852. Its modern Sainte-Foy campus links more than 30 buildings through kilometres of underground walkways.

31. Saint-Roch

Coordinates
46.81667, -71.22778
In one line
Saint-Roch is Quebec City's reborn downtown, a former shipbuilding and working-class district whose rue Saint-Joseph was once the city's main shopping street. After decades of decline it is now a hub of cafes, studios, and tech offices.

32. Limoilou

Coordinates
46.8219, -71.2372
In one line
Limoilou is a leafy residential district laid out on a grid of numbered streets and avenues, built up in the early 20th century. Once rural land by the Saint-Charles River, it is now a lively, walkable neighbourhood prized for its character.

33. Saint-Sauveur

Coordinates
46.80778, -71.24528
In one line
Saint-Sauveur is a tightly packed working-class neighbourhood in Quebec City's lower flats, shaped by the shipyards and timber trade and twice rebuilt after devastating 19th-century fires. It remains a close-knit, proudly local quarter.

34. Sillery

Coordinates
46.77361, -71.26111
In one line
Sillery is a leafy, affluent district on the heights above the Saint Lawrence, founded in 1637 as a Jesuit mission. Once a great timber port, it is now known for tree-lined streets, historic estates, and riverside parks.

35. Beauport

Coordinates
46.852, -71.189
In one line
Beauport is one of the oldest European-founded communities in Canada, established as a seigneury in 1634. Now an eastern borough of Quebec City beside Montmorency Falls, it blends colonial heritage homes with a busy modern town.

36. Charlesbourg

Coordinates
46.867, -71.267
In one line
Charlesbourg is a former town and now a Quebec City borough whose historic core, the Trait-Carré, forms a rare star-shaped village laid out in the 1660s under intendant Jean Talon, radiating from a central church and square.

37. Mount Hermon Cemetery

Coordinates
46.77851, -71.24657
In one line
Mount Hermon Cemetery, founded in 1848 above the Saint Lawrence in Sillery, is Canada's first garden cemetery. Designed by David Bates Douglass with a Gothic Revival lodge, this Protestant burial ground is a National Historic Site shaded by mature trees.

38. Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont

Coordinates
46.79069, -71.27526
In one line
Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont is a Catholic garden cemetery in Quebec City, blessed in 1859 and designed by Charles Baillargé in the style of Brooklyn's Green-Wood. Three Quebec premiers and historian François-Xavier Garneau rest among its winding paths.

39. Saint-Jean-Baptiste

Coordinates
46.8108, -71.2197
In one line
Saint-Jean-Baptiste is a dense, bohemian quarter just outside the old walls, built up as a working-class faubourg along rue Saint-Jean. Rebuilt after the great fires of 1845 and 1881, it brims with cafés, shops, and the towering Saint-Jean-Baptiste church.

40. Montcalm

Coordinates
46.8035, -71.2235
In one line
Montcalm is Quebec City's arts district, an upscale residential quarter west of the walls named for the French general of 1759. Centred on avenue Cartier and home to the national fine-arts museum, it blends galleries, cafés, and elegant homes.

41. Grande Allée

Coordinates
46.8053, -71.2196
In one line
Grande Allée is Quebec City's grand ceremonial avenue, once a 17th-century country road and now a lively strip of Second Empire mansions turned into restaurants, bars, and terraces. Widened in the 1880s and lined with elms, it earned the nickname the local Champs-Élysées.

42. Old Port of Quebec

Coordinates
46.8186, -71.203
In one line
The Old Port of Quebec lines the Lower Town waterfront where the 19th-century timber and shipbuilding trades once boomed.

43. Avenue Cartier

Coordinates
46.8033, -71.2255
In one line
Avenue Cartier is Montcalm's lively commercial spine, a tree-lined run of cafes, food halls, and boutiques between Grande Allee and Chemin Sainte-Foy. Local since 1966, it pairs everyday errands with an easy, neighbourly polish.

44. Cap-Blanc

Coordinates
46.7975, -71.2155
In one line
Cap-Blanc is a narrow working-class sliver squeezed between the cliff of Cap Diamant and the Saint Lawrence River. Once Quebec's roaring timber port, it keeps its dockside soul in tight houses, steep stairs, and the 1877 church Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde.

45. Royal Battery and Lower Town quays

Coordinates
46.812, -71.2018
In one line
The Royal Battery and Lower Town quays guard Place Royale's riverfront. Built from 1691 to sweep the Saint Lawrence with cannon, the semicircular stone gun platform anchors a working waterfront of wharves, fur trade, and commerce reborn through careful restoration.

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