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French Quarter
There's no denying the Quarter's appeal. It's walkable, picturesque, always busy, and filled with an extraordinary range of great restaurants, bars, nightclubs, courtyard cafés, art galleries, rummage shops and quirky museums. A visitor can walk these blocks time and time again and on each occasion notice something new.
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Hermann-Grima House
Samuel Hermann, a Jewish merchant who married a Catholic, introduced the American-style Federal design to the Quarter in 1831. Hermann sold the house in 1844 to Judge Grima, a slaveholder, after he reportedly lost around US$2 million during the national financial panic of 1837. Cooking demonstrations in the authentic open-hearth kitchen are a special treat on Thursday from October to May.
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Jackson Square
Lively, bustling Jackson Square is an impeccably landscaped traditional public square with a cathedral overlooking it. With its surrounding architecture and concentration of artisans, fortune tellers and entertainers who share the stone paved walkway with pedestrian traffic, it's one of the USA's finer public spaces.
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Lee Circle
Called Place du Tivoli until it was renamed to honor Confederate General Robert E Lee after the Civil War, Lee Circle has lost some of its earlier cachet. Just a few dozen paces away, an elevated freeway structure disturbs some of the traffic circle's symmetry, and gas stations occupy two of its corners. Nevertheless, the Robert E Lee monument at its center, dedicated in 1884, still refuses to turn its back on the North - for that's the direction the statue faces.
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Louis Armstrong Park
The Tremé district was originally populated by French-speaking African American Creoles, and modern residents still retain great pride in the neighborhood's history and traditions. Louis Armstrong Park encompasses Congo Square, an American cultural landmark. Now a brick open space, it was the one place where enslaved people were allowed to congregate and play the music they had carried over the seas - a practice outlawed in most other slave-holding societies.
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Metairie Cemetery
Having visited other New Orleans cemeteries doesn't quite prepare you for the stunning architectural splendor and over-the-top extravagance of Metairie Cemetery. Established in 1872 on a former race track (the grounds, you'll notice, still follow the oval layout), Metairie Cemetery is the most American of New Orleans' cities of the dead, and, like the houses of the Garden District, its tombs appear to be attempts at one-upmanship.
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Our Lady Of The Rosary Rectory
Built as the home of Evariste Blanc, probably in 1834, this structure exhibits a combination of styles characteristic of the region. The high-hipped roof and wraparound gallery, reminiscent of West Indies houses, were actually the preferred styles of the French Canadians who originally settled Bayou St John. However, the house's neo-classic details make it obvious that this building is of a later period.
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Pitot House
This French colonial plantation-style house was built in 1799. James Pitot, who was the first mayor of the incorporated city of New Orleans, acquired it in 1810. Built without corridors, the en suite (adjoining) interior rooms allow air to circulate through the louvered shutters on the windows and upstairs back porch. The house features a double-pitched roof and stucco-covered briquette entre poteaux construction.
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St Louis Cathedral
Jackson Square is the heart of the Vieux Carré, overlooking the Mississippi River. The grand 1794 St Louis Cathedral, designed by Gilberto Guillemard, presides over the square's assortment of street musicians, artists and tarot-card readers. The river levee's Moonwalk makes a great spot to sit and dip beignets in café au lait while watching the river boats meander by.
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