Midtown Toronto (Ravines & Retreats)

See a greener, quieter and more gracious side of Toronto with a local expert who knows its midtown streets and the ravines that run beneath them. With your private guide and a separate luxury chauffeur, this is the city of old villages, grand houses and great institutions, a refined contrast to the downtown core.

The tour begins in Yorkville, once the heart of the city's 1960s folk and coffee-house scene and now its most elegant quarter, before a look at the Royal Ontario Museum from the street, where Daniel Libeskind's angular crystal bursts from the original stone building. The University of Toronto's St George campus follows, all Gothic and Romanesque Revival quadrangles and lawns, then the Annex, whose turreted red-brick houses have been home to writers and thinkers, Jane Jacobs among them.

From Summerhill, where the clock tower of the old North Toronto railway station still keeps watch over Yonge Street, the tour ends in Rosedale, where the streets wind to follow the ravines and the houses grow grander at every turn.