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For the lover of things cultural, New Orleans is a Mecca. The city is full of world-class, award-winning museums: stunning exhibits of international and southern art, the nation's World War II  museum, plus captivating historical museums where you can learn about the history of Jazz or Mardi Gras or see the death mask of Napoleon. Fascinating smaller, niche museums highlight a diversity of topics including liquor, shipwrecks and treasure, voodoo, old tools of the pharmaceutical trade, dollhouse treasures and more.

New Orleans has long been an inspiration to artists, so it is no surprise there are an abundance of art galleries peppered throughout the city. From Fauborg-Marigny to the French Quarter, and from the Warehouse and Arts District to the magical six miles of Magazine Street, you’ll find everything from established, international artists, to jewelry that dazzles the senses, to local up-and-comers in the city’s burgeoning and revitalized Arts District.

New Orleans is rapidly becoming a golf center in the southern United States. An explosion of golf course development and course renovations have made New Orleans a true urban resort. One of the oldest PGA Tour stops is located here, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, now played at the new spectacular Pete Dye designed Tournament Players Club of Louisiana. A fabulous range of new and revitalized tracks await you in the golfer’s dream destination: the Crescent City and its environs.




For those with a musician’s soul, it would be almost criminal not to experience jazz in the city that invented it. Whether on New Orleans’ street corners or in its historic clubs, jazz instrumentals and vocals created by the city’s talented musicians are an experience that shouldn’t be missed.

For the sports and recreation lover, New Orleans offers an array of outdoor activities including unparalleled fishing, hunting, golf and boating. For the spectator, a night of thrills watching the city’s professional basketball team, the New Orleans Hornets or the professional football team, the New Orleans Saints.

The only worry you might have in New Orleans is how to get all your purchases back home. With its array of specialty boutiques and gift shops, as well as your favorite department stores, it will be hard to go home empty handed. Check out the shopping on Magazine Street, which is 6 miles of specialty boutiques or the department stores at Canal Place or New Orleans Center or the Riverwalk. For a taste of local flavor, take a trip through the French Market, a farmer’s market offering local delicacies, produce, art and merchandise.

A number of tour options for groups and individuals are available. Take a walk through the grand plantations of yesteryear on River Road, experience life on the Mississippi with the riverboat tour, adventure into the Louisiana bayous with a swamp tour, or walk in the shoes of New Orleans’ ancestors with historic and heritage walking tours.

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