Cafe Maspero sits at six hundred and one Decatur Street, defined by its long-standing reputation for hearty, overstuffed deli-style sandwiches and Cajun classics. While many visitors associate the name Maspero with the historic slave…
Pirates and Smugglers Quarter
We walk the backstreets of the French Quarter to trace the shadowy legacy of Jean Lafitte and the privateers who ran early New Orleans' rogue economy. From colonial-era blacksmith shops to Spanish taverns, you will see where these legendary smugglers lived, plotted, and traded.
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1. Cafe Maspero
2. The Cabildo Museum
The Cabildo is a heavy, cream-colored masonry building along Jackson Square, easily identified by the series of ground-floor Spanish arches and the third-floor French-style mansard roof. Built between seventeen ninety-five and seventeen…
3. Pirates Alley
Pirates Alley is defined by its narrow, stone-paved passage running directly between the St. Louis Cathedral and the Cabildo in the heart of the French Quarter. Originally known as Orleans Alley, this path served as a functional shortcut…
4. Napoleon House
The Napoleon House is a three-story brick building topped with a distinctive cupola and adorned with shallow ironwork balconies on its second floor. It sits on the corner of Chartres and Saint Louis Streets in the French Quarter. Built…
5. Old Absinthe House
The Old Absinthe House occupies a stucco building at the corner of Bourbon and Bienville streets, dating to approximately eighteen oh six. Originally constructed for an importing firm to trade tobacco and liquor, the ground floor…
6. Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar
Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop Bar sits at the corner of Bourbon and St. Philip Streets, distinguished by its rough, exposed brick masonry, askew window shutters, and a low-slung, weathered profile. Constructed in the seventeen seventies during…