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Place Ville-Marie marks the beginning of Montreal's famous Underground City, planned as a refuge from weather that is outrageously cold in the winter and humid in the summer. The underground network began with the construction of the cruciform Place Ville-Marie in the 1960s. Montrealers flooded into the first climate-controlled shopping arcade, and the Underground City duly spread. Today its 31km of passages provide access to the Metro, major hotels, shopping malls, transport termini, thousands of offices, apartments and restaurants, and a good smattering of cinemas and theatres. Everything underground is well signposted, but you're still likely to get lost on your first visit, unless you pick up a map of the ever-expanding system from a tourist office. That said, while the tourist office pamphlets make the Underground City sound somewhat exotic, don't plan to make a day out of visiting it - the reality is pretty banal and most Montrealers just consider it as a way to get from place to place, anchored by a number of fairly standard shopping malls. If you want cheap and quick food, though, check out the food courts on the lowest floor of any of the malls en route
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