New Orleans' French Quarter

Sponsored by TravelStorysGPS

• Location: Louisiana
• Travel Type: Walking
• Trip Time: 1 hour
• Language:

About This Tour
Where will you find the oldest continually operating cathedral in the United States? On this mobile audio tour of New Orleans’ French Quarter! From voodoo to coffee, jazz music to bananas Foster, visitors to the French Quarter will experience more diversity and history than any other place in America.

The French Quarter, more commonly called “The Quarter,” is home to the Old Absinthe House on Bourbon Street, which was the meeting place where General Andrew Jackson formed an unusual alliance with notorious pirate Jean Lafitte — a partnership that gave America a decisive edge against the British in the War of 1812.

Perhaps the only things more mysterious than the purported mind-bending qualities of the famous drink served at the Old Absinthe House are the collection of voodoo potions and dolls you’ll find on Dumaine Street and the legend of the Casket Girls at the Old Ursuline Convent, the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley.

If New Orleans locals want to know your location, they’ll ask, “Where y’at?” Well, we’ll tell you! You might be overlooking the Mississippi River from Jackson Square, in the center of the French Quarter, strolling down Barracks Street to see the New Orleans Jazz Museum or the French Market, walking on Conti Street toward Algiers Point, or sipping your own Green Monster on Bourbon Street. Regardless of where you find yourself in the French Quarter, you’ll have a rich historical and cultural experience.

As you navigate the cobblestones in the French Quarter, this audio walking tour will introduce you to some of America’s most vibrant cultural curiosities. You will:
●     Visit the bell La Victoire (the victory bell that commemorates the triumph at the Battle of New Orleans) and the Cabildo (where the Louisiana Purchase was signed).
●     Tour one of the oldest apartment buildings in the United States.
●     Celebrate the revival of New Orleans jazz at Preservation Hall, where master musicians perform on 360 nights of the year.
●     Visit the voodoo priest and his albino python at the New Orleans Voodoo Museum — a tribute to the enslaved West Africans, French, and Spanish Catholics who merged their faiths to form this city’s mystical voodoo religion.

Other Tour Highlights Include:
●     Shopping and unique cuisine at the French Market on Barracks Street, the site of the original Choctaw American Indian trading post.
●     A visit to Brennan’s, the home of the famous delectable dish called bananas Foster, flambéed right at your table.
●     A steaming cup of chicory coffee at Café Du Monde, paired with unforgettable powdered sugar–dusted beignets.

Tour Sponsor
This tour is brought to you by TravelStorysGPS, a mission-driven company dedicated to connecting people to places.

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