For two-and-a-bit weeks from late January, Quebec City throws the world's biggest winter carnival: ice palaces, night parades, canoe races across the half-frozen St Lawrence and a giant snow bath undertaken by locals in swimwear. The old walled city looks like a snow globe year-round in winter, and the toboggan run beside the Château Frontenac has been terrifying families since 1884. Book accommodation months ahead — carnival weekends sell the city out.
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