City Hall

  You may already know that Toronto is home to the world's tallest building (CN Tower at 553.33 m) and that the world's longest street starts at the City's lakeshore (Yonge Street at 1,896 km), but did you know that over 18 per cent of Toronto is parkland and that this city of five million inhabitants is home to world-class architecture and the world's most ethnically diverse population?

Casa Loma Photo © Ontario Tourism

  Within the City of Toronto there are 8,000 hectares of parklands and 307 km of rivers and creeks. All this natural space encourages a lot of walking, biking, jogging and rollerblading along the 187 km of bike paths, 7.8 km of pedestrian paths and the exercise paths that run along the 138 km of waterfront shoreline. As you bike, jog or walk through the green spaces of North America's safest city, you'll see world-class architecture. At the centre of Toronto is Casa Loma, Canada's majestic castle on a hill built in 1919 by British industrialist Sir Henry Pellat as a tribute to his wife. Travel southbound through the castle's breathtaking gardens to the City Hall built by Viljo Revell in 1961. Yet further south in the heart of the financial district you'll find Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's towering architectural suspension in the atrium at BCE Place, or Frank Gehry's new installation at the Royal Ontario Museum.

  At the conclusion of your trek, you'll be hungry, so indulge in one of the thousands of restaurants or dine al fresco with a picnic in the park with the squirrels, birds and other nature enthusiasts.