In downtown Halifax, 30 minutes away, admire the harbor view from the Citadel, which once guarded this key naval station of the British Empire. Stroll through the Halifax Public Gardens, the oldest Victorian garden in North America. Peggy's Cove, a much-photographed fishing village with a picture-perfect lighthouse and lobster pots, lies a few miles east. Watch the world's highest tides roll in and out of the Bay of Fundy and visit the site of the Acadian village that inspired Longfellow's Evangeline
