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6  HOW T O USE THIS GUIDE

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

This DK Eyewitness Travel Guide helps and it covers all of the important sights, with
you to get the most from your visit to New photographs, maps, and illustrations. Beyond
Orleans. It provides detailed information New Orleans covers nearby Cajun Country, as
and expert recommendations. well as the historic plantations.
The chapter titled Introducing New Orleans Information about hotels, restaurants, shops
maps the city and the region, and sets it in its and markets, entertainment, and sports is
historical and cultural context; it also describes found in Travelers’ Needs. The Survival Guide
the most salient events of the year. New Orleans section has advice on everything including
at a Glance is an overview of the city’s main New Orleans’ medical services, telephones,
attractions. New Orleans Area by Area starts on banking, post offices, and the public
page 46. This is the main sightseeing section, transportation system.

Finding Your Way Around New Orleans
The city has been divided into five sightseeing numbered and clearly located on an Area Map.
areas, each with its own section in the guide. After this comes a Street-by-Street Map focusing
Each section opens with a portrait of the area, on the most interesting part of the area. Finding
summing up its character and history, and listing your way about the area section is made easy by
all the sights to be covered. The sights are a numbering system.

Introduction to the area
NE W ORLEANS AREA B Y AREA  53
UPPER FRENCH QUARTER 1For easy reference, the sights in each
The French Quarter is synonymous with (meaning Old Square) is quintessential area are numbered and plotted on
New Orleans. The original 20 blocks were New Orleans. The colorful Creole-style
laid out around present-day Jackson cottages featuring jalousie-shuttered
Square in 1721. The Upper French Quarter windows stand flush along the sidewalks.
runs from Iberville Street to St. Ann and There are also several Spanish-style an area map. To help the visitor, this
includes the busiest blocks of Decatur, buildings decorated with lacy iron galleries.
Chartres, Royal, and Bourbon streets. The This iconic neighborhood escaped with
last of these is particularly lively, offering very little wind damage from Hurricane map also shows the main streetcar
several bars that promise rollicking good Katrina and experienced no flooding in
times. Architecturally, the Vieux Carré the days that followed. and bus stops, and parking areas. The
Sights at a Glance
Historic Buildings Theaters Restaurants p174
2 St. Louis Cathedral, Cabildo, 5 Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré 1 Antoine’s area’s key sights are listed by category,
and Presbytère pp58–9 2 Arnaud’s
4 Pontalba Buildings Parks and Gardens 3 Bayona
1 Jackson Square
6 Pirate’s Alley 4 Camellia Grill
7 Père Antoine Alley and Boat Trips 5 Doris Metropolitan such as Museums and Historic Places.
St. Anthony’s Garden t Steamboat Natchez 6 Galatoire’s
q Louisiana Supreme 7 K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen
Court Building 8 Nola
w Napoleon House 9 Pelican Club
Museums and Galleries 10 Rib Room
11 SoBou
3 The 1850 House
8 Museum of Death
9 Hermann-Grima
Historic House
0 Historic New Orleans
Collection pp62–3
e New Orleans B U R G U N D Y S T R E E T O R L E A N S A V E N U E
Pharmacy Museum N O R T H R A M P A R T S T R E E T A locator map shows where
S T. A N N S T R E E T
r Jean Lafitte National S T. P E T E R S T R E E T
B O UR B O N S T R E E T
Historical Park
Visitor Center D A U P HI N E S T R E E T R O Y A L S T R E E T you are in relation to other
B U R G U N D Y S T R E E T C O N T I S T R E E T C H A R T R E S S T D E C A T U R S T R E E T WASHINGTON PARK areas in the city center.
T O U L O U S E S T R E E T
ARTILLERY
S T . LO U I S S T R E E T
R O Y A L S T R E E T Stars indicate the
B I E N V I L L E S T R E E T
0 meters 200 I B E R V I L L E S T R E E T C H A R T R E S S T R E E T M i s s i s s i p p i sites that no visitor
D E C A T U R S T R E E T N O R T H P E T E R S S T C L A Y S T N O R T H F R O N T S T PARK should miss.
0 yards 200 CO NT I S T WOLDENBERG
I B E R V I L L E S T R E E T
See also Street Finder maps
3, 4, & 5
For keys to symbols see back flap
The historic St. Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square 54  NE W ORLEANS AREA B Y AREA UPPER FRENCH QU AR TER  55
Street-by-Street: Upper French Quarter 2 . St. Louis Cathedral, MID-CITY LOWER FRENCH QUARTER
Cabildo, and Presbytère
This is the heart of the French Quarter, containing a These were the most important
religious and administrative
striking and harmonious collection of buildings. The lively buildings in the French and UPPER FRENCH
Jackson Square initially served as a military parade ground, Spanish periods. QUARTER
or place d’armes, where troops were trained and drilled, WAREHOUSE M i ssiss ippi
executions carried out, and public meetings held. The DISTRICT & CBD
Cathedral, Cabildo, and Presbytère face the square. It was
redesigned in 1848, when Baroness Pontalba built the two Street musicians Locator Map
See Street Finder maps 3, 4, & 5
elegant apartment buildings on the upriver and downriver play in front of
Each area has color-coded sides of the square. An impressive statue of General the cathedral.
Jackson was also unveiled in the center of the square,
thumb tabs. where artists now display their work. 7 Père Antoine Alley and
St. Anthony’s Garden
This garden was a favorite local
dueling place in the 19th century.
Tennesee Williams
wrote A Streetcar
Named Desire in an
apartment at 632
St. Peter Street.
A suggested route takes in some of 5 Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré S T . A N N S T R e e T
This theater, established in 1916, moved
the most interesting and attractive to its current location in 1919. The TOULOUSe ST
building is a replica of the original.
streets in the area. C H A R T R e S S T R e e T W i L k i N S O N S T ST. PeTeR ST displays opulent furniture
3 . The 1850 House
This small museum
and decorations that
convey the middle-class
lifestyles of the
The Omni Royal antebellum era.
Orleans hotel (see
p166) is constructed 1 . Jackson Square
on the site of the 1836 A magnificent statue of
St. Louis Hotel. General Jackson takes
center stage in
Street-by-Street map key Suggested route d e C A T U R S T R e e T where artists
the square,
hang their
works “on
2 This gives a bird’s-eye view of the fence”.
interesting and important parts 0 meters 30 30
0 yards
of each sightseeing area. The w Napoleon House 4 Pontalba Buildings
The most beloved bar in the French
numbering of the entries ties For hotels and restaurants see pp164–7 and pp174–81 Quarter is devoted to Napoleon’s The handsome Pontalba apartments, built
memory. His portraits and other
in 1848 for $302,000, are located on the
memorabilia adorn the walls.
upriver and downriver sides of the square.
in with the area map and the
fuller description of the sights
on the pages that follow.
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