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Built on Water, Tested By Storm: Before & After Katrina
(1) Avis
French Quarter
À propos
Step into New Orleans’ layered history and its complex relationship with water on this 2 hour guided walking tour exploring New Orleans’ history, resilience, and sustainability in relation to water.
Through honest storytelling and expert context, your guide traces floods, engineering decisions, Katrina’s devastation, and the city’s ongoing sustainability efforts.
The tour weaves together culture, policy, and lived experience to reveal how natural forces and human choices shaped the city’s vulnerabilities and innovations.
By the end, you will have a clearer sense of what happened, why it matters, and what the future of New Orleans demands.
Points forts
2 heures
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
2 heures
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Follow up information if desired
Environmentalist guide
Guide touristique agréé
Pourboires
Nourriture ou boissons
Points de rendez-vous
Départ
768 Decatur St
This address brings you to the amphitheater. You will notice a semi circle of concrete steps. Your guide will meet you at the bottom of those steps. You will receive a text from the guide describing themselves before the meeting time.
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Informations importantes
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Les nourrissons et les jeunes enfants peuvent voyager dans une poussette ou un landau
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Animaux d'assistance autorisés
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Des options de transport en commun sont disponibles à proximité
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Adapté à tous les niveaux de condition physique
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Not recommended for anyone with mobility issues
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Les visites ont lieu beau temps, mauvais temps
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Non recommandé aux voyageurs à mobilité réduite
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New Orleans and the Mississippi River are extricably linked. Tourism, trade and commerce are all powered by the river, lakes and the gulf that surrounds it.
But the very thing that powers the city’s economy also makes it vulnerable to catastrophic floods.
We will discuss this in detail
15 minutes
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Parc Latrobe
This park was named after Benjamin Latrobe who built New Orleans' first water system
15 minutes
3
Parc riverain de Woldenberg
This area used to be flood walls, warehouses, and industrial that ran along the Mississippi River. The area was transformed into a public park complete with lush greenery, bricked walkways, and public art, and it opened to the public before the 1984 World’s Fair, which the city hosted that year. The park was named for philanthropist Malcolm Woldenberg, who contributed to the park’s creation.
15 minutes
4
Place Jackson
Jackson Square, or the Place d’Armes, as it was originally known, began to take its shape in August 1721, when French engineers laid out a plan for the new colonial capital of La Louisiane. We will discuss the histroy as we view this gorgeous square.
15 minutes
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Marché français
In 1791, this French Market originated as a Native American trading post along the Mississippi River. From there it continued to evolve into a cultural and commercial hub for New Orleans, as French and Spanish colonists opened the market up to ships and traders from all over the world. Over the next three centuries, immigrants from Europe, Africa and the Caribbean began to open their own venues at this French Quarter market, offering everything from Italian butcheries to African coffee and Choctaw spices.
15 minutes
6
Quartier français
This was the original city. When the French created a permanent colony here they initiated a century’s-long effort to pin the Mississippi within its banks by building man made levees on top of the natural ones.
But the Mississippi river was not easily tamed. Even Mark Twain said “The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise. And he was right. No matter what man did to try to control the river, floods plagued each generation of New Orleanians.
Built on Water, Tested By Storm: Before & After Katrina
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French Quarter
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À propos
Step into New Orleans’ layered history and its complex relationship with water on this 2 hour guided walking tour exploring New Orleans’ history, resilience, and sustainability in relation to water.
Through honest storytelling and expert context, your guide traces floods, engineering decisions, Katrina’s devastation, and the city’s ongoing sustainability efforts.
The tour weaves together culture, policy, and lived experience to reveal how natural forces and human choices shaped the city’s vulnerabilities and innovations.
By the end, you will have a clearer sense of what happened, why it matters, and what the future of New Orleans demands.
Points forts
2 heures
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
2 heures
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Follow up information if desired
Environmentalist guide
Guide touristique agréé
Pourboires
Nourriture ou boissons
Points de rendez-vous
Départ
768 Decatur St
This address brings you to the amphitheater. You will notice a semi circle of concrete steps. Your guide will meet you at the bottom of those steps. You will receive a text from the guide describing themselves before the meeting time.