The City Tour provides essential information needed to truly understand New Orleans and why it is the most European city in the United States.
New Orleans was born in a bend of the Mississippi River in 1718. She's grown since then, of course. Changed a great deal, though not as much as the world around her – she can be as stubborn as she is gracious. But she's seen a lot, experienced a lot, both good times and bad. And boy does she have a story to tell.
Our coaches are equipped with individually controlled air conditioning, reclining seats, television monitors, magazine racks, window shades, PA systems and restrooms.
Our City Tour begins at the beginning, in that small parcel of land in the river bend now known as the French Quarter. Once aboard your comfortable coach, sit back and enjoy a narrated tour of the Quarter that includes Jackson Square and the St. Louis Cathedral, the Cabildo, and all the fascinating architecture unique to New Orleans.
Proceed to historic Esplanade Avenue and on to St. Louis Cemetery #3, one of New Orleans' oldest and most intriguing. Cruise the shoreline of beautiful Lake Pontchartrain.
On the City Tour, we will visit Longue Vue House and Gardens. Longue Vue was the home of late philanthropists Edgar Bloom Stern, a New Orleans cotton broker, and his wife Edith, an heir to the Sears Roebuck fortune. The gardens are among the largest and last remaining public gardens designed by Ellen Biddle Shipman, the "Dean of American Landscape Design." This mansion is outstanding! People say it surpasses all expectations and compares just as well to the Plantations, even though it is from a different era. This stop makes our tour a stand-out and a great value. In fact, Charter buses with convention-goers will often make a stop at Longue Vue House and Gardens a top–priority stop on their tours
Afterwards, follow the streetcar line through the old town of Carrollton and down majestic St. Charles Avenue past Tulane and Loyola Universities, Audubon Park and beautifully restored mansions with their extravagant, boisterous gardens. The essential tour of New Orleans draws to an end with a drive through the bustling Central Business District.
This tour is available to you everyday on our City Tour, exclusively from New Orleans Tours. |
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