page_title: Underground City, Montreal
section_title: Place-des-Arts
hierarchical_section_title: Underground City, Montreal / Central segment / Place-des-Arts
caption_attribution_description: Light well in Place des Arts, in Montreal - an artwork entitled L'artiste est celui qui fait voir l'autre côté des choses by Claude Bettinger. Photo by: User:Gene.arboit
context_page_description: RÉSO, commonly referred to as the Underground City, is the name applied to a series of interconnected office towers, hotels, shopping centres, residential and commercial complexes, convention halls, universities and performing arts venues that form the heart of Montreal's central business district, colloquially referred to as Downtown Montreal. The name refers to the underground connections between the buildings that compose the network, in addition to the network's complete integration with the city's entirely underground rapid transit system, the Montreal Metro. Moreover, the first iteration of the Underground City was developed out of the open pit at the southern entrance to the Mount Royal Tunnel, where Place Ville Marie and Central Station stand today.
  Though most of the connecting tunnels pass underground, many of the key passageways and principal access points are located at ground level, and there is also one skybridge. In this regard, the Underground City is more of an indoor city than a truly subterranean city, although there are vast commercial sectors located entirely underground.
context_section_description: Complexe Desjardins
  Hôtel Hyatt Regency
  (access to Place-d'Armes Metro station via Complexe Guy-Favreau)
  UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal)
  Président-Kennedy
  Chimie et Biochimie
  Coeur des Sciences
  Sciences Biologiques
  Sherbrooke
  Arts IV
  Place des Arts
  Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
caption: Skylight in Place des Arts corridor towards Metro station
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