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Published: February 1st 2024
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Toronto doesn't look like Manhattan. But we like it anyway
We once heard that Toronto often is used as filming location for movies and TV-series where scenes from Manhattan are needed. Apparently it is very expensive to actually shoot in Manhattan. So instead they go to Canada, where it is far less expensive, and in Toronto it is possible to make it look like Manhattan. So when we arrived in Toronto we expected to find a city that looks like Manhattan. Our expectations weren't met because Toronto doesn't look like Manhattan at all. But it was a nice city anyway.
Downtown and City Hall We wouldn't call
Nathan Phillips Square, the
Toronto sign and the
city hall the city centre. But it is still a good place to start this blog entry. The City Hall is an interesting looking building. We say "interesting looking", architects supposedly say that it is built in Modernist style.
Bata Shoe Museum The
Bata Shoe Museum is based on the private shoe collection of Sonja Bata. In the museum various aspects of shoes are explained and representative footwear are displayed as examples. In the blog we have added three photos we took
The Toronto sign and the city hall
The City Hall is an interesting looking building. We say "interesting looking", architects supposedly say that it is built in Modernist style. in the museum:
=> A Marilyn Monroe worn pair of shoes
=> A boot designed for use on the moon
=> A pair of
Nike Mags. These are also known as the Back to the Future shoe as they are designed to look like a pair of shoes used in the movie Back to the Future II
Poop Cafe We know that it is extremely silly and childish, but we just had to visit the Poop Café when we were in Toronto. A café where the chairs are designed to look like toilets, the coffee cups also look like toilets, the cushions look like poop etc. It wasn't disgusting at all, but very very silly...
Leslieville's Crazy Doll House and The Wood Cake House Two different private homes that by their owners have been decorated rather extremely.
Gooderham Building The
Gooderham Building building in central Toronto is sometimes called the Flatiron Building because it resembles the
Flatiron Building in New York.
The dog fountain In central Toronto there is a small park behind the Gooderham Building. It is called
Nathan Phillips Square
Photo taken at the Nathan Phillips Square Berczy Park and it features a fountain which is decorated with 27 dog sculptures and one sculpture of a cat. It is an adorably cute fountain.
Distillery District Distillery District is a large former industrial area which has been transformed into a rather interesting residential and commercial district. When we walked around there we found it difficult to take good photos. Therefore we have only posted one, and it is not really representative.
Path In a
previous blog entry we mentioned that there
in Montreal is a large
underground city which has been created by connecting a large number of buildings, metro stations, shopping centres etc. with a network of subterranean tunnels. They have an underground city in Toronto too,
Path. With its 30 kilometers of tunnels it supposedly is the largest underground shopping complex in the world.
CN Tower The 553 meter tall
CN Tower is the highest construction in Toronto. It is a bit of a tourist trap actually. But we have to admit that the view from the observation deck is fabulous.
Church of the Redeemer Church of the Redeemer is not really considered a tourist attraction. We
Queen station
A metro station named Queen. We hope they were referring to the rock band when they named it just wanted to take a photo of it because from one direction the church looks quite stunning as the buildings behind it create an interesting background.
Legends Row The ice-hockey team Toronto Maple Leafs has Scotiabank Arena as their home arena. Outside the arena is the so called
Legends Row, a group of 14 statues of former ice hockey players who have played in Toronto Maple Leafs. We were especially interested in seeing these sculptures as two of the players,
Börje Salming and
Mats Sundin, are Swedes.
Casa Loma Casa Loma is a large mansion, or perhaps better described as a palace, which today is a museum.
We mentioned in the beginning of this blog entry that we expected Toronto to have lots of skyscrapers much like Manhattan. There are some skyscrapers so we weren't totally wrong. But what we didn't expect to find was that there in between the skyscrapers would be plenty of very low buildings, most of them only two or three stories high. We find it a bit odd that Toronto buildings tend to be either very high, 50 stories or more, or very low, around two stories, and
Marilyn Monroe worn shoe
Marilyn Monroe worn shoe at the Bata Shoe Museum that there are very few buildings that are in between.
We hope you enjoyed reading about what we saw and did in Toronto. In the next blog entry we will write about a tourist attraction situated on the border between Canada and United States.
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Nathan Phillips Square
Fabulous picture, Ake. Great foreground providing interesting balance for historic v modern background. Love it!