This small neighbourhood, with its hundred or so metres of pedestrian streets, is one of the city's most popular tourist destinations. As cute as it is friendly, the neighbourhood has undergone many phases of redevelopment since its creation. Today, and since 1985, it has been protected by the Coopérative de solidarité du Quartier Petit-Champlain, a group of artisans united around the same cultural and tourist values, to promote the neighbourhood. Every year at Christmas time, the neighbourhood attracts crowds of tourists for its atmosphere worthy of a period film.
