Montreal Real Estate Information - Plateau Mont-Royal
Plateau Mont-Royal was made famous in the 70's by writers and artists.
The plateau is a large, mostly residential, district that as a lot of
interesting neighbourhood restaurants and cafés. The Plateau
is a very popular place to live. It started out at first as a working
class neighbourhood then in the 60's and 70's it became the place where
many writers, singers and artists lived and worked. One of Plateau Mont-Royal's
distinctive features is that most apartment buildings are duplexes or
triplexes (two or three stories high) and have outside stairs to the
second floor (it's architectural trait of a lot of Montreal houses).
Although you can find those in many other districts, there are mainly
associated with the Plateau.
Montreal's neighbourhoods:
Downtown Montreal (Centre-Ville)
Underground City
Chinatown (quartier chinois)
The Village
Côtes-des-Neiges
Notre-Dame-de-Grace
Prince-Arthur and Duluth
Ile Ste-Helene
Ahuntsic and Cartierville
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (pôle Maisonneuve)
Latin quarter (Quartier latin)
Mile-End district
Old Montreal (Vieux-Montréal)
Outremont
Plateau Mont-Royal
Rue Crescent
St-Denis
Westmount
Montreal real estate (general)