Little Italy, Montreal

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7080 Rue Alexandra, Montréal, QC H2S 3J5, Canada

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N45° 31' 53.8" W73° 37' 8.5"   (45.531611111111, -73.619027777778) Start navigation »

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Little Italy (French: La Petite-Italie; Italian: Piccola Italia) is a neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is centred on Saint Laurent Boulevard between Jean Talon Street and St. Zotique Street in the borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, south of Villeray and Jarry Park.
Little Italy is home to Italian Canadian-owned shops and restaurants, the Jean-Talon Market, as well as the Church of the Madonna della Difesa, built by Italian immigrants from the Campobasso area in Molise to commemorate the apparition of the Virgin Mary in La Difesa, an area of Campobasso.
Montreal has the second largest Italian population in Canada after Toronto. There are 260,345 people of Italian ancestry living within the Greater Montreal Area.

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