French Quarter Sightseeing Featured Stories

French Quarter Like a Local

Photo by Cheryl GerberThe French Quarter is without a doubt the most touristy neighborhood in New Orleans — but is it also a place where locals hang out? Are there even French Quarter locals?Yes and yes. To be fair, the Quarter isn’t the residential neighborhood it once was. Well into the...

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New Orleans Streetcar Sense

By: Jyl BensonIn 1947, Tennessee Williams penned “A Streetcar Named Desire,” effectively immortalizing the public transit line that, from the 1920s, served the rollicking French Quarter as well as the working class Marigny and Bywater neighborhoods, located downriver.Sadly, the last car...

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Meet the Mississippi: Exploring the New Orleans Riverfront

The Mississippi River looms large in the American identity, from the history and literature taught in schools to the nation’s modern economy.In New Orleans, you can easily experience the river in all its bustling activity, natural splendor and historical significance via the Riverfront area...

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Fun New Orleans Sightseeing with the Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour

With a city as robust and cultured as New Orleans, you can imagine the overwhelming number of attractions, restaurants, shops and much more. We found ourselves asking – What neighborhoods are must-sees? Which museums are worth the price of admission? How will we get there? What do the locals...

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French Quarter Tours du Jour

While the French Quarter is a fascinating place to simply sit and stare, it becomes ever more so when you make the effort to learn a bit about its history, quirks and secrets. A veritable panoply of guided tours are available to address all manner of subjects specific to the French Quarter and...

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Edible Homework: Cooking Schools Share the New Orleans Culinary Experience

By: Ian McNultyVisitors who think a clutch of plastic beads, a hurricane glass and an obscene T-shirt are the best they can bring back home from a trip to New Orleans clearly haven’t experienced one of the city’s distinctive cooking schools.Anne Gormly has, and after a lunchtime class...

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Gardens of the French Quarter – St. Anthony’s Garden

By: Sally ReevesDetail, Ignace Broutin, Plan de la Nouvelle Orléans telle qu'elle estoit le premier janvier mil sept cent trente-deux. French Centre des archives d'outre-mer 04DFC 90A. Broutin's plan of the garden and the Capuchin complex in 1732. Several drainage features seem to be...

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Grand Chorus Without End at the Old Cathedral in Jackson Square

By: Sally Reeves Every quarter-hour, the thin peal of bells at St. Louis Cathedral calls saints and sinners, mostly the latter. They clang out a slightly off-key sound, as if they well know the offbeat rhythms of the neighborhood below them. The pulse of a circus atmosphere around the church...

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By: Sally ReevesIt took two years to build and two decades to renovate. To some it was an elegant City Beautiful triumph of slum clearance, to others an out-of-scale offense to an historic neighborhood. Home to landmark legal decisions and antique documents, it gave way to stuffed birds,...

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By: FrenchQuarter.com StaffThe New Orleans French Quarter after Hurricane Katrina looks pretty much the way it did before. Thank goodness. And residents and shopowners have been busy cleaning, polishing and sprucing up the old city for company coming. FrenchQuarter.com's been on the streets...

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