ALOJAMIENTO EN VICTORIA BC – CANADA

Descripción general de la ciudad
Victoria está a unos 100 kilómetros (62 millas) de Vancouver, la ciudad más grande de Columbia Británica en el continente. La ciudad está a unos 100 kilómetros (62 millas) de Seattle en avión, ferry o el ferry exclusivo para pasajeros Victoria Clipper que opera todos los días durante todo el año entre Seattle y Victoria y a 40 kilómetros (25 millas) de Port Angeles, Washington, por Coho. ferry que cruza el Estrecho de Juan de Fuca.
Victoria, que lleva el nombre de la reina Victoria del Reino Unido y, en ese momento, de la América del Norte británica, Victoria es una de las ciudades más antiguas del noroeste del Pacífico, con un asentamiento británico que comenzó en 1843. La ciudad ha conservado una gran cantidad de edificios históricos, en particular sus dos monumentos más famosos, los edificios del Parlamento de la Columbia Británica (terminado en 1897 y sede de la Asamblea Legislativa de la Columbia Británica) y el hotel Empress (inaugurado en 1908). El barrio chino de la ciudad es el segundo más antiguo de América del Norte después del de San Francisco. Los pueblos de las Primeras Naciones Coast Salish de la región establecieron comunidades en la zona mucho antes de los asentamientos no nativos, posiblemente varios miles de años antes, que tenían grandes poblaciones en el momento de la exploración europea. Victoria, como muchas comunidades de la isla de Vancouver, sigue teniendo una presencia considerable de las Primeras Naciones, compuesta por personas de toda la isla de Vancouver y más allá.
Victoria, conocida como la “Ciudad Jardín”, es una ciudad atractiva y un destino turístico popular con un sector tecnológico próspero que se ha convertido en su mayor industria privada generadora de ingresos. Victoria se encuentra entre las veinte mejores ciudades del mundo por calidad de vida, según Numbeo. La ciudad tiene una gran población de estudiantes no locales, que vienen para asistir a la Universidad de Victoria, Camosun College, Royal Roads University, Victoria College of Art, el Programa Internacional de las Escuelas de Sooke y el Colegio Canadiense de Artes Escénicas. Victoria es muy popular entre los navegantes con sus hermosas y escarpadas costas y playas. Victoria también es popular entre los jubilados, que vienen a disfrutar del clima templado y generalmente libre de nieve de la zona, así como del ritmo generalmente relajado de la ciudad.
Fuente: Wikipedia


Beacon Hill Park is the central city’s main urban green space. Its area of 75 hectares (190 acres) adjacent to Victoria’s southern shore includes numerous playing fields, manicured gardens, exotic species of plants and animals such as wild peacocks, a petting zoo, and views of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Olympic Mountains in Washington across it. The sport of cricket has been played in Beacon Hill Park since the mid-19th century. Each summer, the City of Victoria presents dozens of concerts at the Cameron Band Shell in Beacon Hill Park. The extensive system of parks in Victoria also includes a few areas of natural Garry oak meadow habitat, an increasingly scarce ecosystem that once dominated the region. In the heart of downtown are the British Columbia Parliament Buildings, The Empress Hotel, Victoria Police Department Station Museum, the gothic Christ Church Cathedral, and the Royal British Columbia Museum/IMAX National Geographic Theatre, with large exhibits on local Aboriginal peoples, natural history, and modern history, along with travelling international exhibits. In addition, the heart of downtown also has the Emily Carr House, Victoria Bug Zoo, Market Square and the Pacific Undersea Gardens, which showcases marine life of British Columbia. The oldest (and most intact) Chinatown in Canada is located within downtown. The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is located close to downtown in the Rockland neighbourhood several city blocks from Craigdarroch Castle built by industrialist Robert Dunsmuir and Government House, the official residence of the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia.

Numerous other buildings of historic importance or interest are also located in central Victoria, including: the 1845 St. Ann’s Schoolhouse; the 1852 Helmcken House built for Victoria’s first doctor; the 1863 Temple Emanuel, the oldest synagogue in continuous use in Canada; the 1865 Angela College built as Victoria’s first Anglican Collegiate School for Girls, now housing retired nuns of the Sisters of St. Ann; the 1871 St. Ann’s Academy built as a Catholic school; the 1874 Church of Our Lord, built to house a breakaway congregation from the Anglican Christ Church cathedral; the 1890 St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church;[60] the 1890 Metropolitan Methodist Church (now the Victoria Conservatory of Music), [61] which is publicly open for faculty, student, and guest performances, also acts as Camosun College Music Department; the 1892 St. Andrew’s Cathedral; and the 1925 Crystal Gardens, originally a saltwater swimming pool, restored as a conservatory and most recently a tourist attraction called the B.C. Experience, which closed down in 2006. Attractions outside the City of Victoria CFB Esquimalt navy base, in the adjacent municipality of Esquimalt, has a base museum dedicated to naval and military history, located in the Naden part of the base. North of the city on the Saanich Peninsula are the marine biology Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre, Butchart Gardens, one of the biggest tourist and local resident attractions on Vancouver Island, as well as the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, part of the National Research Council of Canada, Victoria Butterfly Gardens and Centre of the Universe planetarium. Notable museums in Victoria include the Royal British Columbia Museum,the Maritime Museum of British Columbia and the British Columbia Aviation Museum located on the north edge of the Victoria International Airport. There are also numerous National Historic Sites in close proximity to Victoria, such as the Fisgard Lighthouse, Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse, Hatley Castle and Hatley Park and Fort Rodd Hill, which is a coastal artillery fort built in the late 1890s, located west of the city in Colwood. Also located west of the city is Western Speedway, a 640-metre (4⁄10 mi) oval vehicular race track and the largest in Western Canada.
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