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The Underground City

Square Victoria OACI Metro Corridor

Montreal's Underground City refers to the maze of malls and concourses that connect major Downtown buildings, but it's a bit of a misnomer.

It's not really a city (nobody lives here) and a good deal of it is not underground either.

Perhaps a better metaphor would be to think of it as an enclosed archipelago: the malls are the islands and they're connected causeway-like passages as well as ferries (the metro).

Either way the system is huge and stretches some 32 km (20 miles) to cover 4 million square meters!

The result is that there's often a lot more bustle underground than at street level; particularly in winter.

Barbie Expo

Barbie Tussauds

Eaton Centre

Key Downtown mall

Palais des Congrès

Montreal Convention Centre

Place des Arts

Montreal's leading performing arts centre

Place Ville Marie

Historic skyscraper & mall

Text © Christian Williams

Image by Jason Thibault