Montréal’s Best Kept Secret Park – Place des Nations – Updated
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Place des Nations, or what remains of it.
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Do you really want the city to fix this place up?
I mean don’t you enjoy it for how it is, presently, as a kind of ruin?
I gotta say I really enjoy going there and feeling like I’m lost in another dimension, another time…