French Quarter
The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré, is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans.
The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré, is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. After New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the city developed around the Vieux Carré, a central square. The district is more commonly called the French Quarter today, or simply "The Quarter", related to changes in the city with American immigration after the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Most of the extant historic buildings were constructed either in the late 18th century, during the city's period of Spanish rule, or were built during the first half of the 19th century, after U.S. purchase and statehood.
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Worth seeing in and around French Quarter
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.
- 01Caesars 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.
1.8 km · domed stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA · Wikipedia - 02Smoothie 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.
2 km · multi-purpose indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 03St. 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.
200 m · cathedral in New Orleans, USA · Wikipedia - 04Congo 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.
400 m · square in New Orleans, Louisiana USA · Wikipedia - 05Jackson 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.
200 m · historic park in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · Wikipedia - 06Saint 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.
1 km · cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, consisting of three discontiguous parcels · Wikipedia - 07Hancock 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.
1.1 km · skyscraper in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 08The 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.
200 m · historic building in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 09Louis 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.
500 m · park in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. · Wikipedia - 10French Market
The French Market is a market and series of commercial buildings spanning six blocks in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as a Native American trading post predating European colonization, the market is the oldest of its kind in the United States.
500 m · Market in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia
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Getting to French Quarter
- Airports
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans (MSY), 20 km · Pensacola (PNS), 282 km
- Pensacola → French Quarter279 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · $26–36
- Houston → French Quarter511 km · quickest by air, 5h 2m · $200–290
- Birmingham → French Quarter7295 km · quickest by air, 16h 30m · £940–1,450
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No local-transport research exists yet for French Quarter
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 French Quarter. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to French Quarter
French Quarter is 1 km from New Orleans, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- New Orleanslargest city of the state of Louisiana, United States2.3 km
- Orleans Parishparish of Louisiana that forms a consolidated city–parish with New Orleans1.7 km
- Storyvilledistrict of New Orleans900 m
- Treméneighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States1.4 km
- Algierscommunity within the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States3.8 km
- Faubourg Marignyneighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States1.2 km