Château Frontenac

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Château Frontenac in Québec
Château Frontenac by night
The Château Frontenac in July 2011. The copper roof is being renewed here.

The Château Frontenac is a luxury hotel in the center of the Canadian city ​​of Québec and is considered one of the main attractions of the city.

It was built in 1893 by the architect Bruce Price for the Canadian Pacific Railway in the style of historicism ( neo-Gothic and neo-renaissance elements) and belonged to the chain of Canadian Pacific Hotels (now Fairmont Hotels and Resorts ). The Quadrant Conference took place here in 1943 .

The hotel is named after Louis de Buade (1622–1698), Count of Frontenac and Palluau, the most important governor of the French colony of New France . It is located on the top of a hill overlooking the Saint Lawrence River , above the Plains of Abraham , where the British defeated the French during the French and Indian War in 1759 and then took the city of Quebec.

The Château Frontenac has been part of the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain since October 2001 and is one of the most exclusive luxury hotels in Canada. It is also one of the most photographed hotels in the world.

In the Hitchcock film I Confess (Engl. Title I Confess ) is the Château Frontenac several times to see and play especially in the final scene in the search for a killer an important role.

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Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 43 "  N , 71 ° 12 ′ 18"  W.