For over 100 years, it has been the pride of Montreal. An essential commercial artery, Sainte-Catherine Street now stretches over 11.2 km and is home to more than 1,200 boutiques, department stores and restaurants of all kinds.
Whether you're going to see a show or a movie, take a class at a university, or go window shopping, your steps will inevitably lead you to Sainte-Catherine Street. Accessible by nine metro stations, it offers numerous accesses to the underground city, crosses the downtown area and the Quartier des spectacles, and hosts major events.
Its history is inseparable from that of the city. On the west side, it crossed the neighborhoods inhabited by wealthy merchants and businessmen, mostly English-speaking. Towards the end of the 19th century, department stores, bank branches and office buildings gradually opened their doors.
On the east side, its development, around the 1870s, followed the installation of numerous businesses and small factories that attracted a population of mostly French-speaking workers. There were businesses integrated into homes and also large department stores. Gradually, the artery lost its residential vocation and became home to more and more businesses and cafés as well as numerous movie theaters and theaters.
Whether you walk it from east to west or west to east, it will gradually reveal its secrets and you will notice that its physiognomy varies according to the neighborhoods it crosses. Sometimes elegant and refined, sometimes young and trendy, artistic and lively, but always dynamic and cheerful, whatever the time of day.
You are at the heart of everything. So no need for a car! Whether you want to eat out, shop, visit museums, go to malls or do some shopping, everything is within walking distance.
However, you are 8 and 10 minutes walk respectively from two metro stations Bonaventure and Guy-Concordia.