Little Italy, Montreal

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Little Italy
Neighbourhood
Petite Italie
Little Italy emblem
Little Italy Location of Little Italy in Montreal
Coordinates: 45°31′54″N 73°37′09″W / 45.531611°N 73.619028°W / 45.531611; -73.619028
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
City	Montreal
Borough	Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie
Postal Code	H2R, H2S
Area code(s)	514, 438

Little Italy (French: La Petite-Italie; Italian: Piccola Italia) is a neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is centered on Saint Laurent Boulevard between Jean Talon Street and St. Zotique Street in the borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, south of Villeray and Jarry Park.

Little Italy is home to Italian Canadian-owned shops and restaurants, the Jean-Talon Market, as well as the Church of the Madonna della Difesa, built by Italian immigrants from the Campobasso area in Molise to commemorate the apparition of the Virgin Mary in La Difesa, an area of Campobasso.

Montreal has the second largest Italian population in Canada after Toronto. There are 260,345 people of Italian ancestry living within the Greater Montreal Area.^[1]