Parliament Building, Québec Live Cam

The Hôtel du Parlement stands just outside the walls of Quebec City, with the Tourny fountain in the roundabout in front of it. The webcam looks across the traffic at the façade.

The building went up between 1877 and 1886 in the Second Empire style, and its front carries twenty-six bronze figures from the history of the province, set in niches. The assembly inside is the only French-speaking legislature in North America.

The fountain was cast in France in the 1850s, stood in Bordeaux, was sold off and eventually turned up in a Paris antique yard. It was bought, restored and given to the city for its four hundredth anniversary.