Travel
Win a luxury 5 night break to Ontario
Ontario Tourism UK has teamed up with North America Travel Service and British Airways to offer one lucky reader a luxury break in Ontario for two people. Te prize includes flights from London to Toronto, two nights in Toronto and three nights at the JW Marriott Lake Rosseau Resort & Spa plus four days car rental.
For your chance to win go to:
www.ontariotravel.net/ukluxury
with an impressive patio view to match. Toronto’s culture is as varied as its restaurants. Tough TIFF is a big draw for visitors, there are many more festivals and institutions that showcase Toronto’s diversity. Another 75 film festivals of all themes and genres dot the calendar, including the highly regarded Hot Docs every April, which has become one of the world’s largest documentary festivals and is now housed in its own retrofit historic theatre. TIFF’s own new home – Te TIFF Bell
Lightbox - showcases provocative exhibitions year-round such as the Cronenberg Project, featuring the work of Toronto filmmaker David Cronenberg, which opens this fall. Jake Gyllenhaal, who has frequently premiered movies in Toronto, says: “Toronto is a city so artistically inclined. Tere’s a desperation to bring out the arts and creative mind and it’s all over in the architecture and in performance spaces.” Te Luminato Festival for 10 days in June is another example of this burgeoning creativity, expressed in an internationally eclectic mix of music, dance, theatre, literature and inspiring discussions. Toronto hosts the largest photography festival in the world (Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival) with more than 1,500 artists and featuring photography in unforeseen places across the city. All throughout the year, cultural institutions themselves are also architectural draws. Famed Canadian architect Frank Gehry has reimagined the Art Gallery of Ontario into a modern masterpiece; Daniel Libeskind’s juxtaposing design of jagged crystalline edges sits beside – and on top of - the Royal Ontario Museum’s older, stately exterior. Both museums feature compelling special events alongside their comprehensive exhibitions and galleries. Tere are also centres built specifically for music
and dance performances. Te Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts and Te Royal Conservatory of Music’s Koerner Hall are both recent additions to Toronto’s cultural scene, designed for near flawless acoustics and sightlines for opera and ballet performances or classical music, respectively. Treating yourself is the name of the game and
Toronto’s extravagant shopping districts help you get there. Alongside the biggest names in luxury on Bloor Street’s Mink Mile, you can find bespoke apparel brands and jewelry designers in Yorkville. Toronto’s cobblestoned and historic Distillery District offers similar flair whether you’re buying art or chocolate. Toronto really is about pleasure. Whether it’s your king-sized bed, a gratifying spa experience, that extravagant meal, performance or gift, you are sure to find it.
For more information on Toronto visit Tourism Toronto’s official website:
www.seetorontonow.com
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