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The Rooftops of Old Quebec

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These shots were taken from the top of the Citadelle in Old Quebec City.  We'll talk about the Citadelle another day.

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We were so high up, overlooking the Saint Lawrence River, that we were level with some of the highest rooftops in the city center.

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But, not all of them of course. You remember the Chateau Frontenac.  How could you forget?

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Edifice Price, or the Price Building is the oldest and tallest historic building in Quebec City. I love the golden leaves in the foreground.  And notice the provincial flag of Quebec flying from the tipity-top.

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This one is the Parliament Building and so deliciously French.  Old grey stone and zinc Mansard roofs.  And there is that flag again, flying proudly.  It is a favorite of mine because it has four fleur-de-lis at each corner of the flag.

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The row of houses here remind me of the small streets of Butte Montmartre in Paris.

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I love this slender church steeple of the Chalmers-Wesley United Church, behind the Autumn Leaves. The website I have linked to is accepting donations for work that desperately needs to be done.

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The steeple disappears into the clouds, reaching for the heavens.  The amber-colored leaves highlight the metal which has rusted from wear-and-tear on the old steeple.  

Where have you been where the rooftops have reminded you of Paris?  

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