Garden District Walking Tour: Mansions and Lafayette Cemetery
Walk among the grand houses built as Americans made a city uptown from Creole New Orleans.
United States
Self-guided tours in Louisiana
2 tours in Louisiana
Haunted French Quarter Walking Tour
Walk the French Quarter from a grand hotel to an old convent and storied house.
About Louisiana
Louisiana's story runs through New Orleans, the port the French founded in 1718 near the mouth of the Mississippi. The city passed to Spain and back to France before the United States bought it in 1803, and the French Quarter still carries all three: French street names, Spanish colonial buildings, and American courts in a Spanish Cabildo. Our Louisiana tour is the Haunted French Quarter Walking Tour, eight stops over 1.1 miles from the Hotel Monteleone on Royal Street to the Beauregard-Keyes House on Chartres Street. The Quarter has more legends than almost any neighborhood in America, and the walk tells them, then tells what the record shows: the pharmacist and the doctor behind the Pharmacy Museum's rumors, the Cabildo room where the case that became Plessy v. Ferguson was heard, Père Antoine at St. Louis Cathedral, Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, the LaLaurie Mansion and the fire of 1834, and the attic of the Old Ursuline Convent. The walk takes about 55 minutes with the stories, on flat sidewalks. It works by day, and it's even better in the evening, when the Quarter's balconies are lit and the streets fill up.
Where to go in Louisiana
Louisiana: questions people ask
What audio tours are there in Louisiana?
The Haunted French Quarter Walking Tour in New Orleans: eight stops, 1.1 miles and about 55 minutes with the stories.
Is the LaLaurie Mansion on the tour?
Yes, it's the sixth stop. It's a private home, so you see it from the street.
Can I do the French Quarter walk at night?
Yes. It's self-guided and stays on the Quarter's main streets, so you can start whenever you like, day or evening.
Is there a self-guided tour of Louisiana?
Yes. 2 tours, including "Garden District Walking Tour: Mansions and Lafayette Cemetery", are on Stories. Unlock it once for your group for $4.99 and play it in your browser; the app plays each story as you arrive.
Every Stories tour plays in your browser, no app needed. How it works
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