Olympic Park, Montreal

The Olympic Park ( Parc olympique French, English Olympic Park ) is a park-like area in Montreal with several major sports facilities. The main venue for the Olympic Summer Games 1976 is located approximately six kilometers north of the city center in the arrondissement of Mercier - Hochelaga -Maisonneuve. The boundaries of the Olympic Park from the Rue Sherbrooke to the west, Boulevard Viau in the north, Avenue Pierre -de- Coubertin in the east and Boulevard Pie -IX in the south.

The most striking building is the Olympic Stadium with its distinctive sloping tower of 175 meters above sea level and its integral water sports center. Other buildings are the Environment Museum Biodome de Montréal (the former Olympic Velodrome ), the Centre Pierre Charbonneau - that Aréna Maurice- Richard, the Stade Saputo and the multiplex cinema StarCite. Is accessed the site through the subway stations Pie -IX and Viau. To the west of the Olympic Park are the Parc Maisonneuve and the Botanical Gardens, north the former Olympic Village.

1912 acquired the then independent town Maisonneuve a 204 acre site and let it make a park. In the 1930s, a large part of it was converted to an 18 - hole golf course and in the Botanical Gardens. A designed in 1954 field development plan was to use the remaining residual area of 46 hectares on the eastern edge size for the construction of sports facilities. Three years later, the Centre sportif Maisonneuve was opened (today the Centre Pierre Charbonneau - ), 1962 saw the Aréna Maurice Richard. In April 1973, construction began on the remaining facilities for the Olympic Summer Games 1976. The golf course had to be canceled as a replacement was in 1977 a 9 -hole course north of the Rue Viau. 2007/ 08 was built on the former training ground on the northern edge of the Olympic Park, the football stadium Stade Saputo.