Jackson Square is the heart of the French Quarter: a beautifully landscaped park surrounded by shops, artists, museums, the St. Louis Cathedral, and just across from a splendid view of the Mississippi River.
French Quarter
Truman Capote once described New Orleans as, “of all secret cities, the most secretive, the most unlike, in reality, what an outsider is permitted to observe.” New Orleans’ French Quarter may be its most secretive neighborhood. Here, in an area famous for its raucous nightlife and hedonistic abandon, there lives a community in love with the area’s timelessness, its beautiful buildings and handcrafted details, its proximity to the river, and its quality as a great, walkable neighborhood of world-class restaurants and vibrant street life.
If you like the pulse of great music coming to you on the coffee-scented air; if you enjoy walking down an ancient street where overhanging balconies spill pools of mysterious shadow; if stepping off a crowded sidewalk into a secret garden makes your heart skip a beat, then you “get” the French Quarter.
Here in one of the oldest communities in the United States, history isn’t distant…it isn’t even the past. In the French Quarter, where the ravages of Hurricane Katrina touched only lightly, artists, writers and performers are back in business, living side-by-side with successful businessmen, street urchins, restaurateurs and the descendants of French aristocrats. They’ve created a culture that’s unlike anything anywhere else: part Venice, part Venice Beach, part magic, and purely and inimitably the French Quarter.
