Brrr! Fancy a winter holiday in bone-chilling Montreal?

Installations that are part of the Luminothérapie series light up the night during the winter. (Image: Eva Blue, Tourisme Montréal)

The Wall Street Journal

Mon, 01 Jan 2024

By Jen Rose SmithIt was past midnight and freezing outside, but the skaters whirling around the Esplanade Tranquille rink last February in Montreal’s cultural district, the Quartier des Spectacles, didn’t seem to mind. Couples weaved arm-in-arm between teens in Canadiens hockey jerseys; projections of narwhals and tortoises swam beneath their skates. Crowds were out for the 2023 edition of Nuit Blanche, or White Night, an all-night arts celebration that bundles outdoor performances, after-hours museum visits and open-air p...

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