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New Orleans French Quarters The French Quarter is the most historic area in all of New Orleans. The area it occupies is the same six by thirteen block area laid out in 1722 as the original City of New Orleans. The French Quarter lives up to all you've heard: it's alive with the sights ,sounds, odors, and everything else one mightexpect to find in a major entertainment hub. However, it is also a residential neighborhood, where local New Orleaners meet on street corners to hang out. The architecture here is not French but predominantly Spanish.
The New Orleans French Quarters is strictly delinerated by the Mississippi River to the south, Rampart Street to the north, Esplande Avenue to the east, and Canal Street to the west. The streets running parallel to the river carry distinct flavor including Decaunter Street is a strip of tourist shops and hotels uptown from Jackson Square; downtown from the Square, it becomes an alternative hangout with blackclad regulars in shadowy bars and ethnic shops. This is the only section of New Orleans in which you will find an easily navigatable grid patterns of streets, so take advantage of it. New Orleans curves with the river, so locals generally describe locations based on relative proximity to the river or the lake and to uptown or downtown.
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