Rue du Petit-Champlain

Rue du Petit-Champlain is a narrow, cobbled pedestrian street in the Lower Town of Old Quebec, often described as one of the oldest commercial thoroughfares in North America. Lined with seventeenth- and eighteenth-century stone houses now filled with craft shops, cafés and galleries, it climbs beneath the cliff toward the funicular that links to the Upper Town. Flower boxes, murals and winter lights add to its storybook character. The street sits at the core of the fortified district recognized as a World Heritage Site.