Today I take you on a tour through Montreal's enormous underground city. For generations the Montreal UNderground has been confusing locals and tourists alike. Now... it's my turn! #Montreal #Canada #Quebec
Great video Dan! Unfortunately you can't get from Place-des-Arts to McGill underground, unless you go south toward Palais des congrès and the World Trade Centre (where you started) and then connect from there to Square Victoria to ICAO and through Place Bonaventure and then up toward PVM and then McGill, but it's not easy. The main heart of the underground is basically a U, and the top right of the U is Place-des-Arts, with McGill being the top left. We need to build some tunnels to connect them and close off the gap, maybe one day! Let me know if you ever want a tour it could be fun!
Yes, the Underground City is Montreal is amazing. Many people here hate winter, so they mostly stay indoors during it, hence the popularity of this network. You can wear summer clothes when it is -30'C outside and still get everything done whilst staying indoors the whole time.
That section of the deadly Berlin Wall was donated by the city of Berlin, a gift to celebrate MTL’s 350th anniversary. Ironically it is directly above where the 17th/18th century stone wall dividing what is now known as Old Montreal from the native Iroquois, on whose land it was built. Before those buildings were glassed over, it was known as ‘ruelle des fortifications’, or ‘Fortification Lane’. Go behind City Hall, and you can see remnants of the wall.
Hi Dan, I used to pass through the World Trade Centre every day while headed to work. In case you didn't know, there's actually another way to get to the underground from that building, it's at the opposite end from the one you found. You passed right by when you entered.
Really cool how it's all connected and how freaking massive the underground is. Sucks to get lost but hey at least you can find new things 😅. It must be great for activities during the winter. Video quality was great! Also this was a good French listening practice for me ( my French is kinda rusty😅) !
The Berlin Wall was the wall between EAST Berlin (belonging to Eastern Germany) and WEST Berlin (belonging to Western Germany) in Berlin City. Because Berlin was cut in two, even if it was (territorially) in Eastern Germany.
A tourist like me could get easily lost in a place like this! SO many twists and turns that cut through all of the city whew! It's so cool how everyone knows exactly where they are going too. 😀
Wow..great video! We're visiting later this month and wanted to check this out. I think we'll have to be mindful of where we go when we visit the underground. It looks like you can easily get turned around down there.
If you’re looking for Place des Arts metro station, following the overhead signs that say Place des Arts with the metro logo, is a good bet. If you had followed that overhead (Place des Arts) sign the first, second or third time you passed underneath it and showed it, you’d have gotten to PDA without circling around multiples times inside the Complexe Desjardins mall. The signs are actually indicative of how to get around the underground city. They’re worth reading
Great video Dan. I have been to Montreal many times and have never been to most of these. Eaton centre is about it. They should offer headphone set with GPS guide
Strangely enough on a visit from UK my wife and I got lost going underground trying to get to any area to shop. Lucky for us we were helped by a lovely young lady called Louise who walked us through the system.
I spent a good bit of time wandering aimlessly through deserted corridors going nowhere. When you finally do get anywhere, youre in basically a mall. So, if thats youre thing, go for it. A walk up and down Rue St. Paul is mire fun.
Very enlightening thanks for the information I have friends that go there and I will pass it on to them very impressive place glad to know that it's there especially for the winter months so many things to do and see in that environment there
@ivanalonsoriverarosas3654 the mass migration is really hurting the quality of life. I also don't drive, and ontario was already car centric, and our services are deteriorating at a rapid pace.
@ivanalonsoriverarosas3654 it seems like a realistic time frame to get all my ducks in a row, plus if I do go to quebec I could learn basic French (enough to get by)
And like another commenter said, you can’t get to the McGill/Peel/Guy metro area of the underground city from the Place Des Arts area without actually taking the metro. The walkable tunnel connections are along the orange line of the metro and not along the green line. By the way the major complexes you were in, at the beginning we’re the Montreal World Trade Centre (Intercontinental Hotel) where these fument of the Berlin Wall was, then the Montreal Convention Centre (Palais des Congrés) and the federal government’s massive Guy Favreau office/mall Complex. Plus yes there are RESO signage all over those tunnels indicating which major buildings, malls and complexes you are approaching, and maps of the entire network.
When you got off that elevator at Place Desjardins you were so close to the underground passe way to Place des Arts you headed right past where you should have gone.
Im a pro at the underground but my husband is not and he and a buddy had a little puff of magic lettuce and were trapped for a couple hours and never could escape. Yes it is confusing and no good maps.
Thank you so much for the video! It’s our last night in Montreal and we’re across the street from the Wall! We just saw it! I would post a pic if knew how! Merci!
Merci pour cette découverte je suis venu au Québec et à Montréal je ne suis jamais descendu dans cette partie de la ville je visiterai ça la prochaine fois.
In front of the world trade center ( piece of the Berlin wall) at the Square Victoria , you will also find the only Paris entrance metro outside Paris given to the city of Montreal for its 375 th birthday.
This access to the Square Victoria station of the Montreal metro, inaugurated in February 1967, the year of Expo67, in Art Nouveau style, was offered by the city of Paris, to mark the collaboration of the two cities for the construction of the Montreal metro which, like the RATP Paris metro, runs on tires. It has nothing to do with the 375th anniversary of the founding of Montreal, celebrated in 2017. On the other hand, to mark the 350th anniversary of the Quebec metropolis, Paris offered Montreal the Obelisk located on Sherbrooke Street East, opposite Notre-Dame Hospital, which is part of the CHUM.
Been in Montreal 11 years and only know parts of these places, I honestly just prefer short walks outside even in the Cold lol I find the “underground city” too confusing
You summed this video up at the end by saying "I don't know what I am doing" On the good side it was hilarious!! My wife and I have travelled to Montreal recently and could have hired a guide dog to do better. To make it worse you are from Montreal. It is difficult to find the correct path sometimes but stepping outside "weather permitting" probably shows your destination across the road. You didn't know Des Jardin had a hotel on 3rd floor. Mmm? We return again in a week and if we see you we will offer help to find your destination.
The empty parts are not used much when it's still pleasant to walk out side , but in the Winter time , people use them, it's a cold country in Canada so they built lots of them, in other city like Calgary, they built bridges connecting from building to building a lot for people walking around in downtown core too .
Il me semble que lorsqu'on va nulle part, on trouve le chemin qui va nulle part... Si on regarde bien les gens affairés qui se déplacent dans ces lieux, ils semblent aller quelque part et cela est donc assez déterminant pour trouver son chemin. En résumé, si on veut se déplacer du point A au point B, le point A étant l'endroit de départ où on se trouve, il est impératif de déterminer le point B, l'endroit où on veut se rendre, si on veut obtenir la ligne qui réunit ces deux points; n'est-ce pas évident mon cher Watson ? "Bien sûr mon cher Sherlock"
Of course ,there are people living in every 19 boroughs of Montreal including downtown , financial districts and Old Montreal . A city of 400 years old, built on an Island 10 times the size of Manhattan with the largest urban parks in Canada and 1,000 km of biking infrastructure . Montreal is a UNESCO city of design a nd creativity and # 1 most sustainable city in the world with greenhouse roof tops and urban farms manages by AI ( articicial intelligence ) . Montreal is also a world leader in AI ( Mila ) , 3 rd world largest aerospace center after Toulouse and Seatle , 7 universities ( english and french ) connected to the world iand leader in medecine research, engineering, pharma, aerospace , transport and finance .
There oughta be some kind of Google Maps for the Montreal underground. Unfortunately, it's kind of random & sprawling. No one conceived/designed it as a whole entity. Rather, various commercial centres & transit hubs got linked up individually - each connecting tunnel was justified and financed for its own separate reasons. So don't look for any cohesive logic to the layout. :^/
Montréal's underground RESO is 32 km long, which could be a long walk. Fortunately, there is the metro between the main points of attraction, hotels, office and residential towers, shopping centers with some 25,000 boutiques and shops of all kinds. This underground network is the largest in the world and began in 1959, with the construction of Place Ville-Marie and the Gare Centrale downtown Montréal.The RESO even crosses the Saint-Laurent River via the yellow line of the metro towards Longueuil, where there are residential towers, the University of Sherbrooke and shopping centers.
Wow, well done. Underground city map: RESO the largest underground complex in the world 22 milles or in metric system 33 Kilometers still in growing progress. Even many Montrealers do not aware of it ! And it is more than a mall. 7 metro stations, 3 university one English, Governments Qc and Canada building were getting your NAS numero assurance social , indoor skating ring, many hotels ( Queen Elisabeth Hotel were John Lennon record Peace give it a chance) , bars, cafe, museums, theaters, cinemas IMAX, restaurants, condo tours, office tours, congres places (Palais des congres and place Bonaventure) drug stores, electronic stores, Place des Arts ( the largest 7 different indoor area under the same roof in CANADA Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Les grands balets Canadien.) the BELL center NHL hockey and many pop and rock show, Village et stade olympique stadium More than 60,000 seats ( Pink Floyd Rolling Stones ), casino again one of the largest in the world, Park Jean-Drapeau et ile Notre-Dame (GILLES VILLENEUVE ) Course F1 racing ring, via metro. Etc Etc... Place Bonaventure the upper stages are forbidden but you can try to access it I did and it is fabulous place were the big store buy there stuff Example Plushies animal (giraphe) In the place started 6 inches height and may be 100 same Items but increase in size more right it increase to an 12 feet tall plushies I bring many friends there and everybody enjoy the place Every coridor have a street name It take more then 4 hours to just visit and look the outside of every vitrine Sorry for my English it is not my maternal language Place Boneaventure by Saint-Antoine street give access to the central train station (it is underground) and one of the starting end point and from there you have access to the underground network RESO More than 22 miles or 33 Km : And do not forget Le jardin botanique de Montreal figure in the 3 best in the world And for a map : montrealvisitorsguide.com/the-underground-city-map/ Bon je traduis en Français ma langue maternelle. Montréal possède la plus grande ville sousteraine au monde. Plus de 33 Kilomètres de tunnels et passerelles composent ce reseaux qui est en progression constante et nommé par la ville RESO Et c'est beaucoup plus que un simple centre d'achat. 7 stations de metro, 3 universités dont une Anglaise, Édifices gouvernemantaux Qc et Canada ou tu peux te procurer ton numéro assurance social pour les émigrants temporaire ou permanents. Rond de patin a glace intérieur ouvert a tous a l'année. Plusieurs hotels dont hotel Queen Elisabeth ou John Lennon a enregistrer Peace give it a chance. Bars, Cafés, Musées, Théatres, Cinémas dont IMAX, Restaurants et cafétérias, Tour a condominiums, Tours a bureaux, congrès (PALAIS DES ET PLACE BONAVENTURE), Pharmacie ou drugs stores plusieurs, magasins d'électronique, Place des ARTs Plus de 7 salles de spectacles sous un meme toit Le plus grand complexe de ce genre au Canada, orcherstre symphonique de Montréal Les Grands Ballets Canadien entre autre, Le centre Bell La ligue national de hockey Les Canadiens de Montréal et aussi plusieurs artistes pop et rock ce sont produits,, Le vilage olympique et le stade plus de 60.00 sièges Pink Floyd Rolling Stones, Parc Jean Drapeau et ile Notre Dame tel que décrit La piste de course de F1 Jacques Villeneuve Un casineau un des plus grand au monde alors voila et pour la carte du monde sous terrain : montrealvisitorsguide.com/the-underground-city-map/
Je voulais aimer notre sous-terrain, mais c'est caché partout. Le Palais de congrès de Montréal (prononcé palay de coangray de Monrial) a deux connexions entre le Palais et les bâtiments gouvernementaux sous le Quartier Chinois, plus deux connexions cachées entre le Quartier Chinois, la place Desjardins, la place des arts, et même une connexion entre Place des Arts et McGill et Peel. La seule raison que je connais ces endroits esf parce que j'ai travaillé en Centre-ville. Chaque fucking fois que je dois utiliser Bonaventure je retrouve perdu. Je connais le clinique de radiologie à place Desjardins, je devais faire exrayé mon docteur m'a envoyé là. Le tunnel entre Place des Arts et la Station Place des Arts est à droit food court (grillades Gran Torino).
Может я неправильно понял, но метро у вас меньше даже нашего в Москве, я уж не говорю про Японское или Китайское метро))) Тебе нужно больше бывать за границей. Ты откуда переехал в Монреаль?
He didn't mean the Metro is big , but the underground path connecting to other Metro stations as well as shopping centers , in the Winter when it's really cold, you don't have to go out side in the downtown core, just walk inside the tunnel from one spot to the other, it's a long interesting underground tunnel.
Dan, there were maps , signs and arrows everywhere for directions but you did not look at the signs on the walls and ceillings . I guess it is difficult to talk , film , entertain and find your way . guess people cant focus and read anymore ..In Montreal, all maps , signs are at the entrance and exit of buildings and metro stations . Always look up close to the ceiling as well .. Take care
