The Olympic Park
As a daring architectural creation, the Olympic Park was built to accommodate the 1976 Summer Games.
More than one hundred million people have visited since its inauguration, whether to admire the city of Montreal a top of the highest inclined tower in the world, to attend an event in the Stadium or train in the Sports Centre, which is also host of large scale national and international competitions.
The Olympic Park grounds, with its installations and thirteen on-site partners, is visited by more than three million visitors every year.
Open to the world and harmonious with its surrounding community of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, the Olympic Park aspires to become a unique recreational and tourist attraction where creation, discoveries, entertainment and sports training are side-by-side.
To accomplish this, annual programming focused on culture, sports and sustainable development will be presented on the Esplanade Sun Life Financial, in spring 2012.
Today the Olympic Park countains:
The site of many large-scale sporting, cultural and commercial events since its inauguration in 1976, the Olympic Park is a place rich with history. Think of highlights like the World Cup U-20 FIFA 2007, memorable concerts like Pink Floyd, Madonna and Diane Dufresne with her Magie rose, the Grey Cup finals, the operas Aïda by Verdi and Turandot by Puccini, and the XXIII World Gymnastics Championship, Expos baseball games…
Montreal, an Olympic City
The story of the Olympic Park construction is absolutely fascinating. From the groundbreaking to the addition of the Saputo Park in 2008, here are some great moments of this fabulous adventure!
