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Faubourg Marigny

The Faubourg Marigny is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Faubourg Marigny
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The place

The Faubourg Marigny is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Faubourg Marigny

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Caesars Superdome

    Caesars Superdome commonly known as the Superdome, is an indoor stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. It has served as the home venue of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League since its opening in 1975. Plans to build the Superdome were drawn up in 1967 by the New Orleans modernist architectural firm of Curtis and Davis and the building opened as the Louisiana Superdome in 1975.

    2.9 km · domed stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Smoothie King Center

    Smoothie King Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is located in the Central Business District, adjacent to the Caesars Superdome.

    3.1 km · multi-purpose indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St. Louis Cathedral

    The Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France, also called St. Louis Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral and basilica in New Orleans, Louisiana.

    1.1 km · cathedral in New Orleans, USA · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Congo Square

    Congo Square is an open space, now within Louis Armstrong Park, which is located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street north of the French Quarter. The square is famous for its influence on the history of African American music, especially jazz.

    1.3 km · square in New Orleans, Louisiana USA · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Jackson Square

    Jackson Square, formerly the Place d'Armes or Plaza de Armas, is a historic park in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960, for its central role in the city's history, and as the site where in 1803 Louisiana was made United States territory pursuant to the Louisiana Purchase.

    1.1 km · historic park in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Saint Louis Cemetery

    Saint Louis Cemetery is the name of three Catholic cemeteries in New Orleans, Louisiana. Most of the graves are above-ground vaults constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries.

    2 km · cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, consisting of three discontiguous parcels · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hancock Whitney Center

    Hancock Whitney Center, formerly One Shell Square, is a 51-story, 697-foot skyscraper designed in the International style by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, located at 701 Poydras Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the tallest building in both the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana, and is taller than Louisiana's tallest peak, Driskill Mountain.

    2.2 km · skyscraper in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    The Cabildo

    The Cabildo, originally called "Casa Capitular", is a historical building in New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally the seat of Spanish colonial city hall, the building now forms part of the Louisiana State Museum.

    1.2 km · historic building in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Louis Armstrong Park

    Louis Armstrong Park is a 32-acre park located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street from the French Quarter. In the 1960s a controversial urban renewal project leveled a substantial portion of the Tremé neighborhood adjacent to Congo Square.

    1.2 km · park in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    National World War II Museum

    The National WWII Museum is a military history museum in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, on Andrew Higgins Drive between Camp Street and Magazine Street. The museum focuses on the contribution made by the United States to Allied victory in World War II. It was founded in 2000 as the National D-Day Museum and was later designated by the U.S. Congress as America's official National WWII Museum in 2003.

    2.8 km · military history museum and non-profit organization in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Faubourg Marigny

Airports
Louis Armstrong New Orleans (MSY), 20 km · Pensacola (PNS), 281 km
  • Pensacola → Faubourg Marigny
    277 km · quickest by road, 4h 38m · $26–35
  • Houston → Faubourg Marigny
    512 km · quickest by air, 5h 5m · $200–300
  • Birmingham → Faubourg Marigny
    7294 km · quickest by air, 16h 33m · £950–1,460
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Faubourg Marigny

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Faubourg Marigny. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThe ferry at the foot of Canal Street (free for pedestrians, $1 for cars) will take you across the Mississippi to the Algiers neighborhood, and give you a scenic budget mini-cruise of the River in the process.

From Wikivoyage: New Orleans/French Quarter, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,266 km
  2. 02
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    1,375 km
  3. 03
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,450 km
  4. 04
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,935 km
  5. 05
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    2,104 km

If you know how people move in Faubourg Marigny – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Faubourg Marigny

Faubourg Marigny is 2 km from New Orleans, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • New Orleanslargest city of the state of Louisiana, United States2.6 km
  • Orleans Parishparish of Louisiana that forms a consolidated city–parish with New Orleans600 m
  • French Quarterneighborhood of and historic district in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States1.2 km
  • Storyvilledistrict of New Orleans1.9 km
  • Algierscommunity within the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States3.7 km
  • Treméneighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States1.8 km