DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New Orleans

246 Pages·2015·44.96 MB·English

by  DK Publishing

EYEWITNESS TRAVEL
NEW
ORLEANS
EYEWITNESS TRAVEL
NEW
ORLEANS
Main Contributor Marylin Wood
Contents
How to Use
this Guide 6
Project Editor Alejandro Lajud
Art Editor Victor Hugo Garnica
Editor Karla Sánchez
Designers Carlos Muñoz, Alejandro Lajud, Victor Hugo Garnica
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Senior Publishing Manager Louise Bostock Lang
Publishing Manager Kate Poole
Director of Publishing Gillian Allan
Editors Stephanie Driver, Mary Sutherland, Andrew Szudek
Map Co-ordinators David Pugh, Casper Morris
Dtp Co-ordinators Jason Little, Conrad van Dyk
Production Controller Joanna Bull
Main Contributor
Marilyn Wood
Maps
Ben Bowles, Rob Clynes and James Macdonald at Mapping Ideas Ltd.
One of the impressive floats at Mardi
Photographers Gras World
Julio Rochon, Jaime Baldovinos
Illustrators Introducing
Ricardo Almazan, Ricardo Almazan Jr.
New Orleans
Printed and bound by South China Printing Co. Ltd., China
First American Edition, 2002 Great Days
14 15 16 17 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 in New Orleans 10
Published in the United States by DK Publishing,
345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014 Putting New Orleans
on the Map 14
Reprinted with revisions 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015
Copyright 2002, 2015 © Dorling Kindersley Limited, London
A Penguin Random House Company The History of
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part New Orleans 16
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recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright New Orleans
owner and the above publisher of this book.
at a Glance 32
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A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISSN 1542-1554 New Orleans
ISBN 978 1 4654 1196 9 Through the Year 42
The information in this
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time of going to press. Some details, however, such as telephone numbers, opening
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New Orleans
Area by Area
Bourbon Street 48
Royal Street 50
Upper French Quarter 52
Lower French Quarter,
Marigny, and Treme 68
Warehouse and Central
Business Districts 86
View of Artillery Park and Moon Walk on the Mississippi River
Garden District
and Uptown 100 Travelers’ Travel Information
210
Needs
Mid-City 116
New Orleans
Where to Stay 162
Street Finder 218
Where to Eat
and Drink 168
Shopping in
New Orleans 182
Vegetables and fruit for sale in the
Entertainment in
French Market
New Orleans 190
Hotel with a cast-iron cornstalk fencing
Index 232
Survival Guide
Three Guided Acknowledgments 241
Walks 130
Practical
Phrase Book
Beyond New Orleans 138 Information 202 243
St. Charles Avenue streetcar
6 H O W T O U S E T H I S G U I D E
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 from using
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, and post offices to 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.
N E W O R L E A N S A R E A B Y A R E A 5 3 Introduction to the area
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