New Orleans Attractions

The New Orleans French Quarter is the most famous, oldest, and most visited section of the city. Many old-line restaurants are in the Quarter, along with music clubs, museums, antiques shops, and drinking establishments. The French Quarter or "Vieux Carre" ("old square" in French) stretches along the Mississippi River from Canal Street to Esplanade Avenue (13 blocks long) and back from the Mississippi to Rampart Street (6 blocks wide). The area was laid out in French and Spanish colonial times in the 18th century and while it has many hotels, restaurants, and businesses catering to visitors, it is still a functioning mixed-use residential and commercial neighbourhood where locals live and go about their daily lives.