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The historic center of the city has something of the atmosphere of France’s Atlantic port towns in the neighborhood down by the St. Lawrence River, while the streets and squares up on the promontory offer North Americans a first hint of Paris’s Latin Quarter or even Montmartre.
There are two beaches, separated by a promontory where gleaming whitewashed houses cluster around the church of Sant Bartomeu.
The harbor separates the city proper, with the Stanley Park promontory, from its elegant north shore mountainside suburbs of West and North Vancouver.
The drive south down the peninsula from St. John’s takes you first out to Cape Spear, a windswept rocky promontory jutting out into the crashing waves of the Atlantic — easternmost point of North America (longitude 52°37’24”).
Pugnochiuso is among the best of the beach resorts, along with Vieste, where Emperor Frederick II left a castle from which to view the Adriatic, and the pretty fishing villages of Peschici and Vieste climb up the rocky promontory.