Québec - QC Route 132 scenery

Churches and scenery along QC Route 132


Québec Route 132 has, if not the most churches overall, the most interesting churches of any road I've driven. There's some other stuff to see, too.


Cap-St-Ignace, looking south toward the church a few blocks off of Route 132.


Heading west past the church in St-Jean-Port-Joli.


The waterfront church in St-Roch-des-Aulnaies (St. Rocco of the alder forests) and a view across the St. Lawrence River at the Laurentian Mountains to the north.


From St-André (first 2 photos) to the St-Louis church in Kamouraska (last 3 photos).


Sunset, Notre-Dame-du-Portage, with the first photo up the hill from Route 132 on Côte de l'Aéroport.


Rivière-du-Loup, being large, has many churches. The nearer one in the first photo is St-Patrice, upon which I expound in the next two photos. The last church is St-Ludger, off of Rue Témiscouata exiting the city to the southeast in the eponymous neighborhood. There are other places called St-Ludger around Québec, which just seems an awful name for a saint. Maybe not as bad as St-Incontinent (I made that up - I hope).


Also in RDL, which doesn't seem to be an abbreviation used much, but it should be.


Across the road from the St. Lawrence River, east of Rivière-du-Loup.


Heading west into L'Isle Verte on the old road (Rue St-Jean Baptiste) to see the town's church. The first building does have a cross on top, but it just seems to be a residential building.


Heading west out of L'Isle Verte, I cross none other than Rivière Verte - Green River to the Anglophones.


Rivière-Trois-Pistoles, south of Route 132, just east of the eponymous river crossing and west of the much larger city known simply as Trois-Pistoles.


To get to the church in Trois-Pistoles proper, one must leave Route 132 for the old road, Rue Notre Dame.


Looking east at the churches of St-Simon and St-Fabien, both to the southeast of Route 132. The highway used to go through St-Fabien, but St-Simon has always been off the route.


Ste-Cécile-du-Bic is the church of Le Bic, a former town merged into Rimouski in 2009. It's south of Route 132 and across the railroad. The old road through town can no longer be completely followed because the railroad crossing was closed. The photos after the church head west along the St. Lawrence River.


Heading west in Rimouski, this church is St-Germain. For once, the church matches the name of the street it's on instead of the city it's in, although Rimouski is large enough to have several churches.


Through the rolling hills to Ste-Flavie and what I believe is only now a "vieux presbytère" or former church.


Heading west out of Ste-Flavie, is that a lighthouse in the distance? There's one at Pointe-au-Père another 10 km west of here, but this is actually the steeple of the Ste-Luce church. Seriously, churches everywhere.

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