Tomb Raider said: Wow, strangely, we have never told me about this underground complex in Montréal, it looks so exiting :banana: Click to expand...

The vision for the underground city was originally that of urbanist Vincent Ponte, for whom a commemorative plaque was unveiled in November 2006 at Place Ville-Marie.A tunnel linked it to Central Station and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.googleDirectional panels to buildings accessible through the underground city, in Bonaventure metro stationThe advent of the Montreal metrobrought tunnels joining Bonaventure station to the Château Champlain hotel, the Place du Canada office tower, Place Bonaventure, Central Station, and Windsor Station, forming the core of the Underground City.Square-Victoria station connected to the Tour de la Bourse, Montreal's stock exchange building.googleAdding to the development of the underground city was the Montreal Urban Community Transit Commission's policy of offering the aerial rights above metro station entrances for construction through emphyteutic leases, an advantageous way to acquire prime real estate.googlethe Complexe Desjardins office tower complex was constructed, spurring the construction of a "second downtown" underground city segment between Place-des-Arts and Place-d'Armes station, via Place des Arts, Complexe Desjardins, the Complexe Guy Favreau federal government building, and the Palais des Congrès (convention centre).googlethe underground city expanded, with the construction of three major linked shopping centres in the Peel and McGill metro station areas: Cours Mont-Royal, Place Montréal-Trust, and the Promenades Cathédrale (built underneath Christ Church Cathedral). McGill station was already linked with The Bay, Eaton's (now the Complexe Les Ailes), Centre Eaton, and two other office/mall complexes.googleAlthough these buildings have only a secondary commercial sector, they use their connection to the underground city as a selling point for their office space.Also, the construction of a tunnel between Eaton Centre and Place Ville-Marie consolidated the two central halves of the underground city.The construction of the Bell (originally Molson) Centre connected Lucien-L'Allier metro station to the underground city, as well as replacing Windsor Station with the new Gare Lucien-L'Allier commuter train station.googleThe tunnel between the Centre CDP Capital and the Palais des Congrès.A display case sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Architecture holds a video artwork about the underground city.Finally, in 2003, the complete redevelopment of the Quartier international de Montréal consolidated several segments of the central underground city with continuous pedestrian corridors.The construction of the ICAO headquarters joined Place Bonaventure to Square-Victoria station, which in turn was joined to the Palais des Congrès and Place-d'Armes station via the new Caisse de dépôt et de placement building and a tunnel under Place Jean-Paul Riopelle.googleUniquely, the new tunnel sections in the Quartier International contain educational and artistic displays sponsored by major Montreal museums.As a result of this construction, one can now walk all the way across the centre of downtown, from the UQAM Sherbrooke Pavilion at the corner of Sainte Famille Street and Sherbrooke Street to the Lucien-L'Allier metro station just south-west of the Bell Centre, without going outside — a span of 1.7 km (1.1 mi) as the crow flies, or approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) walking distance.googleThe central segment interconnects the following seven STM metro stations via indoor walkway. As the Berri-UQAM station which allows transfers between the Green, Orange and Yellow lines is two metro stops from the closest station in this segment, in many cases it is quicker to walk than to take the metro.googleThe lists of connected facilities which follow are grouped by segment and nearest metro station.nota bene : pictures from google.texts from wikipedia.