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The Original Montreal Mural Arts Tour by Spade & Palacio

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Our Montréal street art and graffiti tour covers local and international artists. The works range from small installations your guide will point out to massive works 10 storeys tall. We learn about techniques and the meaning behind the pieces and the talented artists. Our city is home to the largest concentration of artists in the country, find out why. We’ll see street styles like wheat pastes and some mains and classics of the borough. This is a zigzag walk through the streets and alleys with a local guide in the know. The area is like an outdoor art gallery you can continue to explore on your own after we hand you our recommendations list for the best restaurant and bars in Montréal etc. This is the OG Montréal mural tour that led others to follow in our footsteps. Great for locals and visitors and super popular with corporate and school groups.

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• Mobile or paper ticket accepted
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What's Included

• Inside look into the Montreal art scene
• List of personal recommendations
• The best time ever
• Local guide
• Professional guide
• Access to the original street art tour in Montreal

What's not Included

• Hotel pickup and drop-off

Cancellation Policy

• For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• A moderate amount of walking is involved, this is a walking tour

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Our Montréal street art and graffiti tour covers local and international artists. The works range from small installations your guide will point out to massive works 10 storeys tall. We learn about techniques and the meaning behind the pieces and the talented artists.

Our city is home to the largest concentration of artists in the country, find out why. We’ll see street styles like wheat pastes and some mains and classics of the borough. This is a zigzag walk through the streets and alleys with a local guide in the know. The area is like an outdoor art gallery you can continue to explore on your own after we hand you our recommendations list for the best restaurant and bars in Montréal etc.

This is the OG Montréal mural tour that led others to follow in our footsteps. Great for locals and visitors and super popular with corporate and school groups.

Activity location

• 3523 Blvd St-Laurent
• H2X 2T6, Montreal, Canada, Canada

Meeting/Redemption Point

• 3536 Boulevard Saint-Laurent
• H2X 2V1, Montréal, Québec, Canada
• Thu, May 16 -
• Fri, May 17 $30
• Sat, May 18 $30
• Sun, May 19 $30
• Mon, May 20 $30
• Tue, May 21 $30
• Wed, May 22 -
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• Fri, May 24 -
• Sat, May 25 $30
• Sun, May 26 $30
• Mon, May 27 -
• Tue, May 28 -
• Wed, May 29 $30
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• Activity duration is 2 hours 2h 2h

What's included, what's not

• What's included What's included Inside look into the Montreal art scene
• What's included What's included List of personal recommendations
• What's included What's included The best time ever
• What's included What's included Local guide
• What's included What's included Professional guide
• What's included What's included Access to the original street art tour in Montreal
• What's excluded What's excluded Gratuities
• What's excluded What's excluded Hotel pickup and drop-off

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• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• A moderate amount of walking is involved, this is a walking tour

Activity itinerary

Station 16 gallery, plateau mont-royal, leonard cohen mural, saint laurent boulevard, best deals on things to do, top experiences in montreal.

Montréal Mural Tour - Spade & Palacio Tours

Daily, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Characteristics

• Family Activity
• Walking tours

Thanks to several collectives and festivals that highlight local and international talent, Montréal stands out on the world stage of urban art. The visit of the murals walks you through an open-air museum that unfolds along Saint-Laurent Boulevard, a vibrant thoroughfare that has continually played a key role in defining and redefining the character of the city.

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In-progress mural painting during MURAL 2023.

On the Venn Diagram of Montréal’s passion for summer, festivals, and street art, MURAL sits at the center. The 11-day urban art festival (June 6-16, 2024) turns the city’s buzzy, bohemian, Boulevard Saint-Laurent into an open air music and mural extravaganza highlighted by the creation of wall-sized masterpieces in real time.

The party lasts all day and much of the night.

“It's Montreal, it's early June, it's the effervescence of the start of the summer; we have such a hard winter, when this arrives, we kind of get crazy,” Pierre-Alain Benoit, Director General at MURAL, the non-profit organization operating the festival, told Forbes.com.

Debuting in 2013, the event has successfully capitalized on street art’s 21 st century evolution from outlaw to mainstream.

“The older graffiti tradition was an underground, illegal (subculture); the movement was transforming, opening itself to what I say is the post-graffiti world and street art,” Benoit said. “Muralism, artists doing portraits, abstract or figurative works on large scale walls in a more legal and open context so that it becomes more accessible for the public.”

MURAL’s timing was perfect, aligning exactly with a global explosion in street art and public mural making which has made it the most popular artform in the world. It also picked the ideal location.

“The neighborhood and the street itself–Boulevard Saint-Laurent–were the perfect ecosystem because it always was a profoundly eclectic environment where there was an openness and a tolerance, a patchwork vibe of the cultural and economic colliding,” Benoit explains. “It's retail during the day, it’s family oriented during the day, and then becomes nightlife, party, and bars at night, it’s always been that way.”

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MURAL’s 12th edition welcomes 14 headlining visual artists from Montréal and around the world who’ll be painting walls along Boulevard Saint-Laurent between Sherbrooke Street and Avenue du Mont-Royal. Adding to the spectacle are interactive installations, 3-D light animations, sidewalk art, creative transformations of public spaces, ticketed musical events, free live music, performance art, a local artisan market, and tens of thousands of attendees daily.

The event’s beloved Block Party concerts have become so popular they moved off-site this year to the Peel Bassin. Nodding to street art’s historic connection to Hip-Hop culture, six nights of concerts will be headlined by Hip-Hop icon Rick Ross on June 15.

While the Block Parties and special events along Boulevard Saint-Laurent are ticketed, passing through MURAL and watching the artists is free. The street will be closed to car traffic during the event.

Visit Montréal

Whether in Montréal for MURAL, the F-1 Grand Prix being simultaneously held on the art festival’s opening weekend–expect massive crowds and traffic snarls–or any other reason, strolling Boulevard Saint-Laurent past the eclectic shops and restaurants makes for a delightful time. This street and the wider Plateau neighborhood have served as the cradle for a handful of Montréal’s main immigrant communities since the early 20 th century.

Pop into world famous Schwartz Hebrew Deli and order the No. 4: smoked meat sandwich. Brisket–fatty and delicious; it’ll be ready in about two minutes. They have poutine as well.

Hotel 10 , ideally situated at the intersection of Saint-Laurent and Sherbrooke, puts the neighborhood and entrance to MURAL at the doorstep of guests. The arty property with rates lower than you’d expect and an on-site breakfast to die for helps preserve the city’s creative traditions as well.

In the early 1990s, before it was a hotel, André “Dédé” Fortin lived on the building’s third floor. There, Fortin put together Les Colocs, a beloved Quebec 90s band he fronted. He took his own life in 2000. Hotel 10 honors Fortin in its Suite 2116 , retrofitted to reflect how the singer would have set the room up when he lived there. It is available for guest stays.

Hotel 10 Montreal guest room hallway with guitar painting.

Having been a locus for street art for more than a decade, the Plateau is loaded with murals on Boulevard Saint-Laurent and off. Guided mural tours around the neighborhood during the festival are held in conjunction with Spade & Palacio, a local tour company offering walking explorations of the city’s murals year round. Tours share the backstory of street art and artists from Montréal and beyond along with introducing guests to the genre’s lingo, like “throw up,” “extinguisher hit,” “pieces,” and “heaven spots.”

Summer in Quebec is glorious with bright, mild days and sundown coming well after 9:00 PM. Montréal makes the most of it presenting a roster of festivals.

On MURAL’s heels comes the city’s international jazz festival June 27 through July 6 featuring André 3000 and Norah Jones for 2024. Thousands of artists perform hundreds of concerts across town, many in open air venues.

Osheaga , another music and visual arts festival, takes place later in July modeling itself after European style festivals.

There’s even a second street art/urban culture festival in August, Under Pressure , which predates MURAL.

Visitors to Montréal and Quebec from outside of Canada will want to remember a passport is needed for entry into the country, the official language is French–although nearly everyone in the city speaks good English–and the preferred currency is the Canadian dollar.

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Savvino-storozhevsky monastery and museum.

Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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