Marché Bonsecours

Forget what's sold inside now — read this for the architecture. The long colonnaded Greek Revival façade and the silver dome were a statement of civic confidence in 1847, and the dome was deliberately sited as a landmark from the river. See it from the waterfront, and again at night when it's lit.

The silver-domed 1847 neoclassical market on the Old Montreal waterfront — a defining nineteenth-century civic façade, lit at night.

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