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   St. Louis Cathedral

   The oldest cathedral in continuous use in the United States, whose present building dates from 1789 with the towers added in 1851. It faces Jackson Square, and the three spires are the image of the French Quarter.

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   Bourbon Street

   A street laid out in 1721 and named for the French royal house, not the whiskey, running thirteen blocks through the French Quarter. Its upper blocks are the drinking strip; the lower blocks, past St Ann, are residential and quiet.

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   Storyville

   The legalised red-light district that operated from 1897 to 1917 under a city ordinance meant to confine prostitution to sixteen blocks. Jazz was played in its saloons by Jelly Roll Morton and others; the navy forced its closure and the buildings were demolished in the 1930s.

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   New Orleans Museum of Art

   The oldest art museum in New Orleans, opened in City Park in 1911, strong on French painting, the decorative arts of the South and the art of West Africa. A sculpture garden of several hectares adjoins it.

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   Congo Square

   An open space in Tremé, now inside Louis Armstrong Park, where enslaved and free Black people were permitted to gather on Sundays to trade, drum and dance. That continuity of West African rhythm is why the square is treated as a source of jazz.

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   Jackson Square

   A square laid out in 1721 as the Place d'Armes, facing the cathedral, and renamed after Andrew Jackson, whose equestrian statue of 1856 stands in the middle. Artists have hung work on the iron fence for decades and street musicians work the flagstones.

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   The Cabildo

   The Spanish colonial city hall of 1799 on Jackson Square, where the Louisiana Purchase transfer was signed in 1803, handing the United States 2.1 million square kilometres. It is now part of the Louisiana State Museum, with Napoleon's death mask among its holdings.

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   Six Flags New Orleans

   A theme park in eastern New Orleans that flooded under about two metres of water in Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and never reopened. Its rusting rides stood for years as a widely photographed image of the storm, and demolition was only completed in the 2020s.

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   Louis Armstrong Park

   A thirteen-hectare park in Tremé, opened in 1980 and named after Louis Armstrong, who was born nearby. Congo Square is inside it, along with a bronze of Armstrong and the Mahalia Jackson Theater.

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    National World War II Museum

    The official national museum of the Second World War, opened on 6 June 2000 as the D-Day Museum in the city where Andrew Higgins built the landing craft used in every amphibious invasion. Eisenhower said Higgins was the man who won the war for the Allies.

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   Uptown New Orleans

   The section of New Orleans upriver from the French Quarter, of oak-lined avenues, the Garden District mansions and Audubon Park, reached by the St Charles streetcar — the oldest continuously operating street railway in the world, running since 1835.

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   Gentilly

   A broad, racially mixed middle-income district between Lake Pontchartrain and Bayou St John, built up from the 1920s on the ridges. It flooded catastrophically in 2005 when the London Avenue Canal walls failed, and its recovery has been uneven.

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   City Park

   A 526-hectare park, one of the largest urban parks in the United States, holding the largest stand of mature live oaks in the world — some of them over five hundred years old. The New Orleans Museum of Art and a sculpture garden are inside it.

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   French Market

   A market spanning six blocks along the river in the French Quarter, on ground used for trading by the Choctaw before the city existed, and claimed as the oldest public market in the United States. Produce, prepared food and craft stalls now share the arcades.

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   Mega Zeph

   A wooden roller coaster at the Six Flags park in eastern New Orleans, built in 1995 and left standing after Katrina closed the site. It was demolished with the rest of the park.

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   Aquarium of the Americas

   An aquarium on the Mississippi levee at the edge of the French Quarter, opened on 1 September 1990. A $41 million rebuild merged it with the Audubon Insectarium, and the combined halls reopened on 8 June 2023 under the Audubon Nature Institute.

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   Lee Circle

   A traffic circle originally called Tivoli Circle, on which a monument to Robert E. Lee stood from 1884 until it was removed in May 2017 after a long and bitter civic dispute. The empty column remains, which is the point most visitors take from it.

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   Musicians' Village

   A development in the Upper Ninth Ward built after Katrina at the initiative of Harry Connick Jr and Branford Marsalis, to bring musicians back to a flooded neighbourhood. It has about seventy houses and a music centre named after Ellis Marsalis.

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   Ogden Museum of Southern Art

   A museum established in 1999 devoted to art of the American South, built on the collection of the New Orleans businessman Roger Ogden. It holds about four thousand works from the eighteenth century to the present, including strong holdings of Southern photography.

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    New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum

    A small museum in the French Quarter on Louisiana Voodoo, the religion West African beliefs became here through Haitian and Catholic contact. Altars, gris-gris and material on Marie Laveau, the nineteenth-century practitioner, fill two narrow rooms.

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