Montreal Underground City, Canada A Unique Tourist Attraction

The one of the biggest tourist attractions in Montreal is the Underground City. It is a complex of hundreds of shops, restaurants also connected to subways, hotels and train stations too.

 Electric Stairs with Non Stop Rush of People

The underground city of Montreal is the largest and unique of its kind in the world, a subterranean pedestrian network spanning 32 kilometers of the city’s downtown core. It is connected with big shopping malls, metro stations, universities, hotels, office buildings and apartments too. The city now known as RÉSO which is homophone of the French word réseau means “network”.

Some Top Quality Restaurants Can Be Seen In Underground City, Montreal, Canada

In start the underground city wasn’t much long but with the passage of time, the underground city faced many modifications and more segments were added to RESO. Today it is span over 20 miles (32 kilometers) of tunnels and covers 4 million square meters. It has 120 exterior access points. Tourists can enjoy visiting here both in summer and winter.

Montreal Underground Corridor

Nearly 500000 people use the Montreal Underground City facilities daily. For their facility there are large maps of RESO on the walls of some of its corridors. Many people use it only for taking a shield themselves from the heat in summer and extreme cold conditions of winter. It is linked up with 10 metro stations, 2 bus terminals, 2 major department stores, over 2000 small stores 1600 housing units, nearly 1200 offices, 200 restaurants, 7 major hotels, 40 movie theaters, 40 banks, also with the University of Quebec at Montreal campus and the University of Montreal, Olympic Park, Place des Arts, a cathedral, the convention center and the Olympic center. Here tourists can find everything from clothing to home ware and electronics items.

There is no one who doesn’t want shopping in Montreal Underground and enjoy this unique experience. Its various sections are different from one another, so if anyone get used to the system for first time, it is easy to determine where you are in the complex.