The Hotel That Sleeps on Centuries
Stay where cannonballs, clay pipes, and luxury meet in Old Québec
You don’t expect to find cannonballs under your breakfast nook. But then again, you’re not usually staying in a hotel built on top of an active archaeological site.
Welcome to Auberge Saint-Antoine, a boutique hotel in Québec City that doesn’t just whisper history — it practically hands you an artifact with your room key. Tucked into the stone-lined streets of the city’s Old Port, this Relais & Châteaux property is more than polished parquet floors and plush duvets. It’s layered — literally — over 300 years of buried stories.
🏺 Sleep Beside History, Not Just In It
Each wing of the hotel corresponds to a dig site. That’s not a metaphor — it’s a fact. During the hotel’s restoration, over 5,000 artifacts were unearthed: clay pipes, trade coins, colonial crockery, even rusted musket balls. Rather than shipping them off to a museum, the hotel did something rare — it wove them into the experience. Glass cases are subtly built into the walls, and every room is matched with a discovered relic. It’s the only hotel where you might fall asleep beside a 17th-century spoon and wake up wondering about its past life.
🍷 Candlelight, Limestone, and a Perfect Pour
Even the in-house restaurant, Chez Muffy, serves more than just fine Quebecois fare. It’s set in a restored maritime warehouse with timber beams so thick and old, they creak like they’ve got secrets. Order a glass of Château de Cartes Pinot Noir, let the flicker of candlelight bounce off limestone walls, and pretend, just for a moment, that you’ve time-travelled — but with better linens.
✨ Pro tip: When in Old Québec, skip the souvenir shops and ask a local where they go for bread. (It’s always about the bread.)
If you’re only here for the daydream, that still counts. You can wander further at discovercanadainstyle.com — no passport needed.
Sometimes the most luxurious stays are the ones that bring the past right to your pillow.
🏨 Have you ever stayed somewhere that felt more like a dream than a destination?
Auberge Hotels bring that magic — with charm, character, and Canadian elegance.
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