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In this Canadian city, strolling the romantic cobblestone streets is like exploring an open-air museum

A sense of the past endures in Quebec City, one of North America’s oldest major cities.

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The lobby of the ritzy Auberge Saint-Antoine in Quebec City is decorated with cracked glass jars, broken bits of mud-stained pottery and archaic ceramic pipes mounted in display cases. Billed as a “museum hotel,” the auberge isn’t simply playing up Old Quebec’s history-steeped reputation: It’s located on a site settled by Europeans in the 1600s, so every time the owners expand or renovate their property, they need to do a proper archeological dig, uncovering the treasures on display.

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Auberge Saint-Antoine, billed as a “museum hotel,” is located on a site settled by Europeans in the 1600s.

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You can absorb the historic atmosphere by simply strolling around the streets of Petit-Champlain.

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The Plains of Abraham, a national historic park of Canada, was the site of major French/English battles in the 1700s.

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