Attractions and activities - Centre-du-Québec

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The Center du Québec is full of activities and restaurants for the whole family, friends and colleagues. Take the tour with us and discover this beautiful region!

ATTRACTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

1. Village québécois d'antan (Drummondville)

With its dozens of period buildings recreating a traditional village located in the middle of nature and its array of colorful characters inviting visitors to enter their world through their captivating stories, the Village québécois d'antan offers an authentic and entertaining cultural experience to wish, while offering total immersion in French-speaking Quebec of the 19th and 20th centuries. This summer, witness a real quarrel of steeples when Adélard, faced with the refusal of the priest to let him run for mayor, decided to found his own village, Saint-Tilard. If its inhabitants are constantly in the mood for celebration, their former fellow citizens no longer know on which foot to dance in front of their relaxed attitude, to say the least!

2. Quebec Biodiversity Museum (Bécancour)

The Biodiversity Museum is a science museum that offers a unique experience in the city of Bécancour! In order to raise awareness and educate its visitors on the existence and conservation of species in Quebec, the museum offers a multitude of activities and exhibitions. Go back in time to discover prehistoric species and their evolution, dive into the waters of the St. Lawrence River thanks to a 360-degree projection and finally, come meet living specimens of Quebec wildlife, such as Rocket and Bandit raccoons, Sophie the Wood Turtle and Gandalf the Great Horned Owl. At the end of your visit, you will be better equipped to participate in the sustainable development of our beautiful planet!

3. L'Issue – Escape Games (Drummondville)

The Issue is one of the largest "Escape Room" centers in the region with its 5 rooms with different scenarios. The "Escape Room" is an incomparable immersive game during which you must find the way out of a room where you are stuck. It is an incomparable immersive game during which you find yourself in an environment filled with stimulating and entertaining challenges. As a team, you must search the room, look for clues, decipher codes and solve puzzles in order to reach your objective within the time allowed. Unique in Centre-du-Québec, L'Issue – Escape Games offers different scenarios for everyone's enjoyment.

4. Museum of World Cultures (Nicolet)

The Musée des cultures du monde invites you to immerse yourself in the culture of various communities and social groups in Quebec, past or present, and to discover the foundations of their traditions, their beliefs and their issues in order to promote a better understanding of the differences and to develop a greater tolerance towards them.

The Museum of World Cultures is a research and mediation institution managed by an independent board of directors. It is dedicated to the conservation, study and dissemination of tangible and intangible heritage, Quebec and worldwide, of social groups and communities of Quebec, past or present.

Its mandate: "To share the culture of various social groups and communities in Quebec, past or present, through the foundations of their traditions, their beliefs and their issues in order to foster better understanding and develop greater tolerance for difference ".

In order to accomplish its mission, the Museum of World Cultures acquires relevant objects and ensures their conservation, dissemination and interpretation. It also produces and hosts exhibitions that reflect the latest research in areas related to its mandate.

Located in Centre-du-Québec, the Museum of World Cultures also plays the role of regional cultural broadcaster.

5. Mont Apic (Plessisville)

Located 25 minutes from Victoriaville, Mont Apic offers skiers and snowboarders 14 trails (easy to extreme) with a vertical drop of 95 meters, a school slope and 2 snow parks. Outdoor enthusiasts can also take advantage of the 4 tube sliding trails with mechanical lift and snowshoe trails (free access) that will delight everyone! Mont Apic, an accessible, attractive, and viable outdoor resort, recognized for its positive contribution, and whose vision is the development of the next generation and the improvement of the quality of life of citizens and families in s adding to the diversity of services here.

6. Drummondville Golf Club (Drummondville)

One of the oldest and most beautiful golf courses between Montreal and Quebec, the Drummondville Golf Club offers an 18-hole, par 72 course. It is located on the banks of the Saint-François River, a stone's throw from downtown city. Its green paths are surrounded by mature trees and lush flora. The whole team works every day to present you with a course of superior quality and make your experience as pleasant as possible. With its huge terrace overlooking the river, it is the perfect place to enjoy the 19th hole in good company.

7. Bois-Francs linear park (Victoriaville)

Marked Route verte and recognized Trans-Canada Trail, the Bois-Francs linear park is a bike path built on an old railway line and crosses the RCMs of Arthabaska and Maple. It makes you discover 77 km of picturesque countryside and welcoming urban environments, from Tingwick to Lyster via Warwick, Saint-Chrystophe d'Arthabaska, Victoriaville, Princeville, Plessisville and Laurierville. Free and accessible to all, the trail is lined with 33 stops, picnic tables and sanitary facilities. In urban areas, food services, accommodation and bicycle repairs are easily accessible. Good visit!

8. Gentilly River Regional Park (Sainte-Marie-de-Blandford)

The trails in this park wind through mixed forest. The Grand Trunk passes by the Beaudet and Gentilly rivers that can be crossed by bridges. The Cascatelles pass through an area where small fruits grow and allow you to admire a natural pool created by the power of the water flow of the cascatelles. The Sublime overlooks the waterfalls of the Gentilly River and is decorated with interpretation panels. La Presqu'île leads to a secluded rustic campsite on the banks of the Gentilly River. La Grande Tournée, very steep, climbs a few hills and offers a view of the Gentilly River, as well as a small canyon. The Sentier d'Omer is an interpretive trail telling the story of the Thibodeau family, who once owned the land.

Hours may vary seasonally.

HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

1. Moulin Michel de Gentilly (Becancour)

The Moulin Michel is a superb site where history, the richness of the landscape and calm are kings and masters of the place. Located in the Gentilly sector, in the city of Bécancour, the Moulin Michel is the place of choice to learn more about buckwheat, the history of flour mills in Quebec and to treat yourself to an outdoor meal or celebrate an event. special; it is a return to the past during which you will become aware of the beauty and the work that represented the profession of miller. This job was, at the time, quite an adventure!

2. Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand de Bécancour Church (Bécancour)

The church of Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand is a place of worship in the Catholic tradition built from 1803 to 1806 and enlarged by the facade from 1850 to 1855. The plan of this stone building is composed of a rectangular nave with three vessels extended by a narrower choir ending in a semicircular apse. Of neoclassical inspiration, its monumental facade-screen presents a central avant-corps of Ionic order flanked by two towers surmounted by a bell tower. A stone sacristy, rectangular in plan and on one floor, is grafted to the apse in the extension of the choir. Located in the heart of the Saint-Grégoire sector of the city of Bécancour, the church dominates the institutional core, which also includes the presbytery, the former convent and the former school, and benefits from a protected area.

Even today, you can come and discover a functional treasure that is in the church, the Casavant barley, Opus of electro-pneumatic traction of 17 stops and 19 rows. A beauty!

This well listed heritage building.

3. Joseph-Courchesne House (Saint-François-du-Lac)

The Joseph-Courchesne house is a rural house located on the rang de la Grande-Terre in Saint-François-du-Lac in Quebec (Canada). This neoclassical style house was built by the patriot Joseph Courchesne around 1812. According to a legend, it served as a refuge for patriots during the rebellions of 1837 and 1838.

Listed in 1968, of neoclassical inspiration, this one-and-a-half-storey rectangular stone residence is topped with a gable roof with upturned drip caps. It is located in a row along the Saint-François River.

The heritage value of the Joseph-Courchesne house is based on its architectural interest. This house is representative of the neoclassical-inspired Quebec house, which is often distinguished from the traditional French-style house only by certain architectural details. In the case of the Joseph-Courchesne house, the neoclassical influence is manifested in particular by the symmetrical arrangement of the openings in the facade and by its upturned drips. Inside, coffered battened ceilings as well as several doors with vertical panels would have been preserved and a hearth surmounted by a thick lintel made of a single stone still remains.

It was classified as cultural heritage of Quebec in 1968.

4. Nicolet Seminary / Quebec National Police Academy

The Séminaire de Nicolet, sometimes called the Collège de Nicolet, is an educational institution founded in 1803, located in Nicolet in the Centre-du-Québec region. This is the first institution in Quebec to offer the classical course in the region. The building where the Séminaire de Nicolet was originally located quickly became too small. In 1826, the Bishop of Quebec therefore chose a location for a new building. The building that exists today was built from 1827 to 1836. The building recalls the time when in Quebec, Catholic colleges and seminaries provided a classical education. In 1973, the Government of Quebec formally recognized the historical value of this real estate complex, which has been classified as heritage since the entry into force of the Cultural Heritage Act in 2012.

The seminary closed its doors in the 1960s.

Since 1969, the building has been used by the Institut de police du Québec, now called the École nationale de police du Québec.

RESTAURANTS AND APEROS

1. Auberge Godefroy restaurant (Bécancour)

Halfway between Montreal and Quebec, a few minutes from Trois-Rivières, savor the divine gastronomy of the Restaurant de l'Auberge Godefroy. The executive chef and his brigade create original and tasty dishes from the best local Quebec products in order to offer exceptional quality cuisine with current trends and flavors. The wine cellar suggests more than four hundred labels including exclusive private imports and the most specialized collection of Canadian wines in Quebec.

2. Fromagerie du Presbytere (Sainte-Élizabeth de Warwick)

Artisanal cheese dairy located in the former presbytery, opposite the family farm producing organic dairy. On the menu, organic raw milk cheeses: Champayeur, Bleu de Ste-Élizabeth, cheese curds and 2 new products. It is also the fifteen or so artisan cheesemakers who are busy, on the other side of the street, in the former presbytery, making the best cheeses out of exceptional quality milk.

3. Distillery B - La Miellerie King

La Miellerie King is proud to offer you a range of products that knows how to highlight the sweet nectar collected by tireless bees. By supporting the Miellerie King, you are helping local bees to thrive! You can also raise your glass to it with the one and only canned flavored mead available near you.

4. Jackalhop Microbrewery (Plessisville)

The Jackalhop microbrewery is the ideal place to enjoy a good beer in a warm and welcoming place that represents the Maple region well! On site, a wide variety of craft beers is available. There is literally something for everyone. During your visit, you will have the choice to take advantage of the tasting room by consuming on site or even come and get cans of your favorite beers to take away.

5. Le BockAle Microbrewery (Drummondville)

The Microbrasserie Le BockAle, which is located in Drummondville, offers a wide range of flavored and innovative beers with and without alcohol, brewed on site. Each ingredient that makes up the beers is carefully selected for its quality and freshness. Celebrating is good, but celebrating responsibly is even better!