La Ronde is an amusement park in Montreal, owned and operated by Six Flags, and is the largest in the province of Quebec and the second largest in Canada after Canada's Wonderland, with about 2.5 million guests in 2006. The park is under a emphyteutic lease, a type of lease which stipulates the improvement of the property, from the City of Montreal and expires in 2065. It is also the only Six Flags operation in Canada.
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La Ronde is an amusement park in Montreal, owned and operated by Six Flags, and is the largest in the province of Quebec and the second largest in Canada after Canada's Wonderland, with about 2.5 million guests in 2006. The park is under a emphyteutic lease, a type of lease which stipulates the improvement of the property, from the City of Montreal and expires in 2065. It is also the only Six Flags operation in Canada.
It is a 146 acre (591,000 m²) park located on the eastern tip of Saint Helen's Island in Montreal, Canada. The park hosts L’International des Feux Loto-Québec, unofficially the most important international fireworks competition in the world.
La Ronde was opened in 1967 as a part of Expo 67. Today, the park features 41 rides, including 9 roller coasters; among them Le Monstre, a 40 metre (131 ft) high wooden double-tracked roller coaster which currently holds the record for highest double-tracked roller coaster in the world.
La Ronde also includes a Nintendo-sponsored...
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