Backstreet Cultural Museum
1116 Henriette Delille St, Treme, New Orleans, 70116, United States
The Backstreet Cultural Museum is a small, essential museum in Tremé that preserves the traditions that make New Orleans' Black culture unlike anywhere else in America — Mardi Gras Indian suits, second-line parades, jazz funerals, and the Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs that have been the organisational backbone of the Black community since the 19th century.
Bourbon Street
Bourbon St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Bourbon Street is the most famous party street in America — a 13-block strip of neon signs, open doors, live music, and the kind of uninhibited public drinking that is illegal in almost every other American city but is not only legal here but expected.
Congo Square
835 N Rampart St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Congo Square is the most important piece of ground in the history of American music — the open space in what is now Louis Armstrong Park where enslaved Africans were permitted to gather on Sunday afternoons to drum, dance, sing, and trade, preserving the West African musical traditions that would eventually become jazz, blues, funk, and virtually every form of popular music that America has produced.
French Market
1235 N Peters St, French Quarter, New Orleans, 70116, United States
The French Market is the oldest continuously operating public market in the United States — a six-block stretch of covered stalls along the Mississippi riverfront that has been selling food, goods, and whatever else New Orleans needs since 1791.
Jackson Square
700 Decatur St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Jackson Square is the beating heart of the French Quarter — a formal garden square framed by the triple spires of St.
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
1416 Washington Ave, Garden District, New Orleans, 70130, United States
Lafayette Cemetery No.
Preservation Hall
726 St Peter St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Preservation Hall is a crumbling, un-air-conditioned room on St.
Royal Street
Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Royal Street is the elegant side of the French Quarter — a corridor of antique shops, art galleries, and street musicians that runs parallel to Bourbon Street, one block over, and operates in an entirely different register.
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
425 Basin St, Iberville Project, New Orleans, 70112, United States
St.
The Presbytère
751 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70116
The Presbytère is the mirror twin of the Cabildo on the other side of St.
Tremé Neighbourhood
N Claiborne Ave at St Philip St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Tremé is the oldest African-American neighbourhood in the United States — a community that has existed since the late 18th century, when free people of colour in colonial New Orleans established homes, businesses, and cultural institutions in the area just north of the French Quarter.
Willie Mae's Scotch House
2401 Saint Ann St, Treme, New Orleans, 70119, United States
Willie Mae's Scotch House serves what the James Beard Foundation has called 'America's best fried chicken' — a distinction earned by Willie Mae Seaton, who opened the restaurant in 1957 in a small house in Tremé and spent the next five decades perfecting a recipe that involves a wet batter, a hot skillet, and a level of patience that fast-food chains can't replicate.
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