Toronto Philips Square

During winter, the reflecting pool at Nathan Phillips Square is turned into an ice rink for skaters.

Toronto has matured in to a (still polite) multicultural patchwork of vibrant neighborhoods and has recently enjoyed a billion-dollar cultural renaissance.

Canada’s largest metropolis has long been crowned Toronto the Nice, lauded for all that is safe, polite—and unromantic: tidy streets, polite denizens, user-friendly infrastructure. The city has long ago outgrown its obstinate Puritanical reputation.

Mapped with a green world of hidden ravines, Toronto is glutted with an exhaustive range of ethnic restaurants, arts festivals, and shopping drags. Toronto’s virtues are now also its pleasures.