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Toronto is the capital of the province of Ontario and, with a population of 2,503,281 habitants, is the largest city of Canada, in addition to the financial centre of the country, which makes it a global city.

Located on the northeast shore of Lake Ontario, is the fifth largest city in North America and the 46 th most populous in the world. Toronto is at the heart of metropolitan Toronto (Greater Toronto Area in English and abbreviated as GTA), the largest metropolitan area of Canada, and is part of a densely populated region in south-central Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe ( Golden Horseshoe), which is home to eight million habitants.

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As the economic capital of Canada, Toronto is considered a global city and a major financial cities in the world. Leading the economic sectors of finance, business services, telecommunications, aerospace, transportation, media, arts, film, television, advertising, software, medical research, education, tourism, sports and industry. The Toronto Stock Exchange is the largest stock market in the country and seventh in the world.

Toronto is famous for the CN Tower, 553 meters high. The city is considered the heart of the anglophone Canadian culture and is the host of many national celebrations.

The city of Toronto is cosmopolitan and international, and is an important destination for many immigrants to Canada. Toronto is the largest town in the world in percentage of residents born at home, about 49% of the habitants of the city has not born in Canada. Due to the low crime rates, caring environment and high standard of living, Toronto, is often considered one of the best cities in the world livable. In addition, in 2006 was classified as the most expensive city in Canada. Those born in Toronto receive torontorianos name: Republic of.

In January 2005, Toronto was chosen by the Canadian government as one of the cultural capitals of Canada. Toronto has one of the best qualities of life americas North, and is considered by many as one of the best metropolis in the world to live. It is one of the safest cities of its americas-crime rate is lower than that of any big city on the continent, and one of the lowest in Canada.

In the neighboring city of Mississauga this Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Geography and Climate

Toronto covers an area of 630 square kilometers, with a maximum length from north to south of 21 km and a maximum length from east to west for 43 km. Its coastline on Lake Ontario is 46 km long. Its borders are shaped by Lake Ontario to the south, the Etobicoke Creek and Highway 427 on the west Avenue Steeles the Rouge River north and east.

The climate is mild Toronto for Canada because of its location within the southern country and its proximity to Lake Ontario. It has a continental climate wet (DFA in the climate classification of Köppen), with warm and humid summers and cold winters usually although fairly benign comparacion to standards Canada and the Northern United States. The city experienced four different stations with significant variations in temperature daily, particularly during the cold weather season. Because of urbanization and the proximity to water, Toronto has a range of daytime temperatures rather low, at least in urban areas and in areas near the lake. Different seasons This influence lacustre tiene varios impacts local regional climatic conditions, such as delayed onset of spring and autumn.

Purchases

In Toronto you can find many specialty shops, particularly near the Bay and Bloor streets, including exclusive boutiques and toy stores. Thanks possibly to the climate, Toronto has an extensive set of commercial galleries underground, which generally are open from 9 am to 5 p.m. These stores are generally in fashion, although in these complexes are also present underground stores specializing in toys and even greater access to shops.

Along Queen Street is the biggest camera store in Toronto. The supermarkets are scarce in downtown Toronto, although its suburbs have large shopping malls, department stores and specialty shops, especially near the Orfus Road, near the department store Yorkdale.

The district of fashion is located near King and Spadina, near the Old Chinatown the district of north and the shows (Entertainment District) east.

The St. Lawrence Market is a historic market that has a section to open during the summer months, which offer fresh food grown on site. Kensington Market also has a section to open located near Chinatown.

The city itself has large institutions and commercial galleries. Buy in Toronto has become more an attraction for tourists. For example, the Toronto Eaton Centre received the appointment of special "tourist attraction" in the decade from 1980.

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Culture AND ENTERTAINMENT

Architecture
The architecture of the buildings in Toronto is mostly contemporary, although some of the oldest have an architecture based on the Gothic style or Art Deco style. The Toronto sky is dominated by large skyscrapers. This is the city with the biggest skyscraper in development and construction of the entire Western Hemisphere.

Arts
The Royal Ontario Museum is the largest museum in Canada. It displays the public works mainly archeological and paleontological. It has one of the most prestigious collections of objects from ancient China.
The Art Gallery of Toronto hosts a number of paintings and sculptures by internationally renowned artists such as Henry Moore.
The Ontario Science Center is a museum of science and technology. This specially designed for children.
The metropolitan area of Toronto is the third largest theater center of English-speaking world, only behind New York and London, with more than 90 theaters scattered around the metropolis. In Toronto are located several renowned theaters, and several theater companies in Canada also have their headquarters here.
The National Ballet of Canada, the most prestigious ballet group from Canada, is headquartered in Toronto. Most of the shows in the group are represented at the Hummingbird Centre.
The Canadian Opera Company, the leading operator in Brazil, also has its headquarters at the Hummingbird Centre.
Toronto is a center of the film industry americas North, and the production of home movies and international is a major source of revenue for the city. Toronto is the setting for several movies, which often tends to represent large American cities like New York and Chicago. Many American films were released first in Toronto before being released on a wider scale. The importance of the film industry in the city is highlighted with the Toronto International Film Festival (Toronto International Film Festival), the world's biggest film festival, which rivals that of Cannes in importance.
Altogether, the city has more than 50 dance and ballet companies, six companies operate and two symphony orchestras.

Leisure
Toronto has six large and modern shopping malls. The most famous of these is the Eaton Centre, located in the city center, next to Nathan Phillips Square, and a major tourist spots in the city. Other major shopping malls are the Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Scarborough Town Centre, Sherway Gardens and Fairview Mall, all with two hundred or more stores. For the city are divided as many shopping malls minor.

The Parliament of Ontario is located at the Queen's Park.
Although not particularly known for its green areas, Toronto has several parks and beaches. The two largest green areas of the city are the Toronto Islands (with 230 hectares in size) and Leslie Street Spit, with approximately 200 hectares. Other popular parks in the city are the High Park, Sunnybrook Park, Rouge Park and Christie Pits. The coastal waters of Lake Ontario freezing during the coldest days of winter, which makes them more a tourist attraction.

Sports
Toronto is the only Canadian city with representation in six professional sports leagues, with teams on the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, National Lacrosse League, National Basketball Association, Canadian Football League and Major League Soccer.
Next to the CN Tower is the Rogers Centre (old name: Skydome), a large stadium, opened in 1989, the first in the world with a fully retractable roof and seat of the Toronto Blue Jays (the main baseball team Toronto) and the Toronto Argonauts (its main Canadian football team).
At the intersection with Bay Street, the York Street and the Gardiner Expressway is the Air Canada Centre. It is the headquarters of Toronto Raptors (the main basketball team in the city) and the Toronto Maple Leafs (the main ice hockey team). All the equipment listed in the major leagues playing for americas North of the respective sports.
In the Hockey Hall of Fame pays tribute to players of ice hockey for more renown.
The city was a candidate to host the Olympic Games of 1996 and 2008, which ended up being awarded to Atlanta and Beijing, respectively. The Canadian Olympic Committee is considering applying to Toronto to receive the Olympic Games of 2020 and 2024.

Tourism

Toronto is the Canadian city most visited by tourists, receiving each year something more than 4 million people and occupy the post 14. The next city of the country, Montreal, falls far short with 679,000 tourists, according to a study for the year 2006. The biggest attraction remains the CN Tower, the second highest structure in the world surpassed only by the Burj Dubai emiratense and has remained 30 years in the first position of the biggest skyscraper in the world.

Thanks to more than 80 nationalities, Toronto has many multicultural areas including Portugal Villa, Chinatown, Little Budapest, Little Italy , Little Poland, Greektown, Little India, Koreatown and the area surrounding the Bathurst Street, populated by the Caribbean community. Each of these neighborhoods celebrate national holidays in the same way as their compatriots and opened businesses such as restaurants, allowing tourists and torontonianos contemplate and enjoy the atmosphere as if they were in the country of origin of the neighborhood.

Another aspect that favors the influx of tourists and curious is the fact that Toronto listed in the Guinness Book of Records for having the longest street in the world: the Yonge Street, which measures 1,896 km in length. Throughout the day there were organized excursions to tour the Lake Ontario and its islands. In the lake are Queens Quay, with a dock over one hundred shops which offer the typical Canadian crafts. Another important pier is the Harbourfront Antique Market, specializing in antiques. As for the islands highlights Centre Island, whose main claim is its "Centreville", a miniature replica of an Ontario town of the early twentieth century at 1 / 12.

In cultural tourism, Toronto is the third largest English-speaking theater with its 44 rooms in total and more than 140 companies arts. The most important cultural buildings are the Royal Ontario Museum (the museum's most important country), the Art Gallery of Toronto and the Ontario Science Center, as detailed more fully in the Arts section.

The typical gastronomy of the city notable for two dishes indispensable, salmon and deer. One of the culinary forced citations for lovers of international gastronomy to be given appointment in Toronto is the St. Lawrence Market, located on the same street that lends its name to the market, and that opens Saturday. In one can enjoy CAVIAR domestic and imported and many smoked, the flagship product being the "American Candy" (American Candy), which is cured salmon with Canadian maple syrup and sprinkled with pepper. Another specialty of the city is, surprisingly, wine. The wine is the typical "Ice Wine" (ice wine), as this fact with bunches harvested after freezing in the same vineyard, hence its name. Once pressed, frozen grapes releasing a sweet juice that produces a wine with vanilla scent, nut and honey.

The Toronto International Film Festival is of the dates for tourists and lovers of cinema.

Sites and tourist events
Night view of the CN Tower.
House Loma.SkyDome or Rogers Centre,sports centre.
Air Canada Centre, sports centre.
Toronto City Hall.
Toronto Eaton Centre shopping mall.
Queen's Park, site of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
St. Michael's Cathedral, the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Toronto.
St. James Cathedral, the cathedral of the Anglican dioceses of Toronto.
Princess of Wales Theatre and Royal Alexandra Theatre.
Royal Ontario Museum (Royal Ontario Museum).
Art Gallery of Ontario (Art Gallery of Ontario).
University of Toronto.
Bata Shoe Museum (Bata Shoe Museum).
Museum Gardiner art cerámico (Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art).
Castillo Casa Loma.
Le Petit Glenn.
The Plaza Dundas Square.
High Park.
Harbourfront.
Yorkville neighborhood.
District Little Italy / Little Italy.
Chinatown / Chinatown.
Kensington Market.
Ontario Science Center (Ontario Science Centre).
Toronto Zoo, zoo.
Canada's Wonderland, amusement park.
TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival / Toronto International Film Festival.
Pride Week.
Nuit Blanche.
Caribana
Much Music Video Awards / Awards Much Music Video.

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